Contact Information
(267) 519-4766
Cailu Lin
Research Associate
Education
Ph.D., Animal Genetics; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Uniersity of Bonn, Germany
Research Summary
My research currently focuses on the genetic analysis of mouse ingestive behavoir. This behavior is complex and depends on taste, postingestive factors, assciation learning and other physiological mechanisms. The ultimate goal of my studies is to positionally clone genes that are involved in the complex trait of ingestive behavoir, and to explain physiological mechanisms underlying human diseases that are influenced by ingestive behavior, such as obesity, diabetes, anorexia, alcohol addiction, cardiovascular disease, etc. To achieve this goal, we breed various biologically- engeering mouse lines to identify, and subsently elucidate the genetic variations including spontaneous alleles and chemically-induced mutations with a combination of physiological, molecular and quantitative genetic approaches.
