Teaching
BSCI 353: Principles of Neuroscience
NEUR 306: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
BSCI 431: Origin and Evolution of Nervous Systems
BSCI 356: The Future of the Brain
Research Interests
I am a broadly trained invertebrate neurobiologist who integrates brain-imaging techniques with field biology to study nervous system function and evolution. By comparing the brain arrangements of various insects and crustaceans with extraordinary eyes, I am particularly interested in understanding the fundamental principles of brain evolution underlying distinct sensory adaptations.
Education
B.S. Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
M.S. Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ph.D. Insect Science & Neuroscience, University of Arizona
Postdoctoral Research: University of Maryland Baltimore County; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Select Publications
Lin, C., Cronin, T. W., Hoving, H. -J. T., and Osborn, K. J. 2021. Strange eyes, stranger brains: exceptional diversity of optic lobe organization in midwater crustaceans. Proc. R. Soc. B 288: 20210216. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0216
Chou, A., Lin, C., and Cronin, T. W. 2020. Visual metamorphoses in insects and malacostracans: transitions between an aquatic and terrestrial life. Arthropod Struct. Develop. 59: 100974. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2020.100974
Lin, C., Chou, A., and Cronin, T. W. 2020. Optic lobe organization in stomatopod crustacean species possessing different degrees of retinal complexity. J. Comp. Physiol. A 206: 247-258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-019-01387-5
Durham, M. F., Lin, C., and Cronin, T. W. 2018. Scanning eye movements of the Caribbean stomatopod crustacean (Neogonodactylus oerstedii) in polarized light fields. Mar. Freshw. Behav. Physiol. 98: 1369-1373. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10236244.2018.1543544
Lin, C. and Cronin, T. W. 2018. Two visual systems in one eyestalk: the unusual optic lobe metamorphosis in the stomatopod Alima pacifica. Develop. Neurobiol. 78: 3-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.22550
Cronin, T. W., Bok, M. J., and Lin, C. 2017. Crustacean larvae – vision in the plankton. Integ. Comp. Biol. 57: 1139-1150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx007
Lin, C. and Strausfeld, N. J. 2013. A precocious adult visual center in the larva defines the unique optic lobe of the split-eyed whirligig beetle Dineutus sublineatus. Front. Zool. 10:7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-7
Lin, C. and Strausfeld, N. J. 2012. Visual inputs to the mushroom body calyces of the whirligig beetle Dineutus sublineatus: modality switching in an insect. J. Comp. Neurol. 520: 2562-2574. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23158
