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Simon Ogundare

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteORCID 0000-0002-6243-2779Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Neuroscience· 4 Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 5 Organism:mouse· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1

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Ishmail Abdus-SabooriD· 4 shared William FosteriD· 3 shared Amanda Arnold· 2 shared Phalaen Chang· 2 shared Ryan SchwarkiD· 2 shared Victoria E. AbrairaiD· 2 shared Yu-Young Wesley TsaiiD· 2 shared Abednego DelinoisiD· 1 shared

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Spontaneous behavior predicts colony membership, individual identity, and rank in naked mole-rat societies

Yuki Haba, Ryan Schwark, Caleb Weinreb, Simon Ogundare, William Foster, Yu-Young Wesley Tsai, Jerry Lyu, Mayssam Mohamed, Phalaen Chang, Amanda Arnold, Evan Schaffer, Kanaka Rajan, Sandeep Robert Datta, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Remote automated delivery of mechanical stimuli coupled to brain recordings in behaving mice

Justin Burdge, Anissa Jhumka, Ashar Khan, Simon Ogundare, Nicholas Baer, Sasha L. Fulton, Alexander Kaplan, Brittany Bistis, William Foster, Joshua Thackray, Andre B. Toussaint, Miao Li, Yosuke M. Morizawa, Jacob Nazarian, Leah Yadessa, , Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

The paper introduces an automated device for delivering mechanical stimuli to mice, enabling remote testing and integration with brain recordings to study pain mechanisms.

eLife · Oct 10, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

The Dorsal Column Nuclei Scale Mechanical Sensitivity in Naive and Neuropathic Pain States

Aman Upadhyay, Mark A. Gradwell, Thomas J. Vajtay, James Conner, Arnab A. Sanyal, Chloe Azadegan, Komal Patel, Joshua K. Thackray, Manon Bohic, Fumiyasu Imai, Simon Ogundare, Yutaka Yoshida, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Eiman Azim, Victoria E. Abraira

This study identifies the role of the gracile nucleus in mediating tactile sensitivity and mechanical allodynia during neuropathic pain in mice.

Cell Reports · Apr 1, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

A SMARTTR workflow for multi-ensemble atlas mapping and brain-wide network analysis

Michelle Jin, Simon Ogundare, Marcos Lanio, Sophia Sorid, Alicia Ruth Whye, Sofia Leal Santos, Alessandra Franceschini, Christine Ann Denny

The paper introduces SMARTTR, an R package for brain-wide mapping and network analysis of multiple ensembles, and demonstrates its application to learned helplessness studies.

bioRxiv · Jul 12, 2024Neuroscience

Social touch shapes communication and animal recognition in naked mole-rats

Ryan Schwark, Simon Ogundare, Preston Sheng, William Foster, Phalaen Chang, Yu-Young Wesley Tsai, Amanda Arnold, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

This study shows that face touch is a key social behavior in naked mole-rats linked to social recognition, with molecular and behavioral evidence supporting its importance.

bioRxiv · Feb 21, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience