Dayu Lin

Dayu Lin is a neuroscientist who discovered the neural circuits in the hypothalamus that give rise to aggression in mice. Her lab probes the neural circuits underlying innate social behaviors, with a focus on aggressive and defensive behaviors.

• Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus (2011) Paper
• Esr1+ cells in the ventromedial hypothalamus control female aggression (2017) Paper
• Hypothalamic control of male aggression-seeking behavior (2016) Paper