Dayu Lin, PhD

Social behaviors such as mating, fighting, defense, predation and parenting, are innate, indispensable, and ubiquitous across the animal kingdoms. Research in our laboratory centers on understanding the neural circuits underlying these powerful behaviors in a genetically tractable model system, mice. We are interested in investigating how the sensory information is relayed, integrated, extracted, and diverged to ultimately drive behaviors and how social experiences change the circuits to modify the behavioral outputs. Various genetic engineering, tracing, functional manipulation, in vivo and in vitro recording, and computational tools are combined to dissect the neural circuits in great detail.