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Contact Information

405 N Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

Assistant Director for Student Success, Neuroscience
Professor, Psychology
Research: Behavioral Neuroscience, Behavioral Genetics, and Evolutionary Neuroscience

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Connolly, M. G., Fliflet, A. M., Ravi, P., Rosu, D. I., Boppart, M. D., & Rhodes, J. S. (2025). Exercise-induced plasma-derived extracellular vesicles increase adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain Research, 1869, Article 150003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.150003

Connolly, M. G., Johnson, Z. V., Chu, L., Johnson, N. D., Buhr, T. J., McNeill, E. M., Clark, P. J., & Rhodes, J. S. (2025). Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing Reveals Enduring Signatures of Acute Stress and Chronic Exercise in Striatal Microglia. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 24(2), Article e70019. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.70019

Graham, G. J., Wilton, I. M., Panczyk, E. K., & Rhodes, J. S. (2025). Novel behavioural assays reveal sex-specific behavioural syndromes in anemonefish. Journal of Fish Biology, 106(6), 1845-1862. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16069

Graham, G. J., Ibanez, E. M., Mitchell, L. J., Weis, K. E., Raetzman, L. T., Cortesi, F., & Rhodes, J. S. (2024). Generation of the First Transgenic Line of the Iconic Coral Reef Fish Amphiprion ocellaris. Marine Biotechnology, 26(5), 1067-1078. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-024-10357-1

Hults, C. M., Francis, R. C., Clint, E. K., Smith, W., Sober, E. R., Garland, T., & Rhodes, J. S. (2024). Still little evidence sex differences in spatial navigation are evolutionary adaptations. Royal Society Open Science, 11(1), 231532. Article 231532. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231532

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