Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Pan, M., Acharya, A., Lee, K. Y., Rhodes, J. S., & Tsai, N. P. (2026). Hyperfunction of PSD-95 leads to hyperexcitability and cognitive abnormalities in MEF2C haploinsufficiency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(41), Article e2606341123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2606341123
Wang, S., Yook, Y., Lizarazo, S., Lee, K. Y., Van Bortle, K., Rhodes, J. S., Christian-Hinman, C. A., & Tsai, N. P. (2026). ATF4 Modulates Group 1 mGluR-Dependent molecular signaling, hippocampal plasticity and behavior. Molecular Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-026-03919-3
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