Contact Information:

Email: yinolu@excite.com
Telephone Number: (203)737-4423
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Education

M.D. in Medicine from Hubei Medical School, Hubei, People’s Republic of China 1983

 Ph.D in Microbiology from Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania  State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania  1992

 Post-Doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA 1993
 
Post-Doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular  Biology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 1995

 Post-Doctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine 1996

 Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine 1997 till present
 

Research Interest

               Molecular mechanism of  Mg2+ resorption

Publications
 

 Lu, Y.   Flaherty, C. and  Hendrickson,W. AraC protein contacts asymmetric sites in the Escherichia coli araFGH promoter. (1992) J.Biol. Chem., 267: 24848-24858.

Hansson,J.H.,  Schild, L., Lu, Y., Wilson, T.A., Gautschi, I., Shimkets, R.,  Canessa, C.,Nelson-Williams, C., Rossier, B.C. &  Lifton , L.P.  A de novo missense mutation of the b subunit of the epithelial sodium channel causes hypertension and Liddle's syndrome and identifies a proline-rich segment of the protein critical for regulation of channel activity  Proc.Natl. Acad Sci. USA 1995
 

 Simon, D.  Lu, Y. Choate, K.  Velazquez, H.  Essam Al-sabban. Praga, M. Casari, G.  Bettinelli, A.  Colussi, G. Rodriguez-Soriano, J.  McCredie, D.  Milford, D. Sanjad, S.
Lifton, R. Paracellin-1, a renal tight junction protein required for paracellular Mg2+ resorption (1999) Science 285 pp103-106