Chris Link
Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology
Chris.Link@Colorado.edu
(303) 735-5112

Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
354 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0354

Research Interests:
Molecular genetics; modeling of neurodegenerative diseases using transgenic C. elegans.

Selected Publications:

  1. Link CD, Fonte V, Roberts CM, Hiester B, Silverman MA, Stein GH. (2008). The beta amyloid peptide can act as a modular aggregation domain. Neurobiol Dis., 32(3), 420-5. PMID: 18778773 | pubmed abstract |
  2. Link CD. (2006). C. elegans models of age-associated neurodegenerative diseases: lessons from transgenic worm models of Alzheimer's disease. Exp Gerontol., 41(10), 1007-13. PMID: 16930903 | pubmed abstract |
  3. Link CD, Fonte V, Hiester B, Yerg J, Ferguson J, Csontos S, Silverman MA, Stein GH. (2006). Conversion of green fluorescent protein into a toxic, aggregation-prone protein by C-terminal addition of a short peptide. J Biol Chem., 281(3), 1808-16. PMID: 16239215 | pubmed abstract |