Yu Lin

Yu Lin, PhD
Postdoc fellow,
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 

Dr. Lin has a background in Medicine (pediatrics), Molecular Immunology (M.Sc.) and Biomedical Informatics (PhD). She has 2 years' working experience in a dot com start-up company where she became an experienced website designer and developer. She has worked 1.5 years as a bioinformaticist to carry out the next generation sequencing data analysis in Center for Developmental Biology in Riken, Japan.

Her specialties are in following domains: Ontology, Database, Bioinformatics, Translational biomedical informatics, Immunology

Relevant to ontologies:

• During her Ph.D.'s course, she developed the ontologies for representing the knowledge of susceptibility genetic factors in Diabetes.
• Now she is working with HE group in University of Michigan Medical School to develop the Brucellosis Ontology, which is an extension ontology of IDO.
• She is also involving in the project of medical "textbook" of the future, which is in its initiating status.
• One usage of her ontology of Diabetes is using by another team in UM to explore the collaboration network of the scientists in the relevant field.