Julian P. Meeks

This study examines how predator-associated chemosignals influence risk assessment behaviors and vomeronasal neuron activity in mice, revealing distinct spatiotemporal patterns and neural responses to different predator cues.

This study shows that the vomeronasal system decodes biological state from bile acid patterns, revealing sensitivity to rare ligands and information encoding through stimulus whitening.

This study shows that deleting transglutaminase 2 improves metabolic support from astrocytes and reduces pathology after repetitive mild traumatic brain injury.

This study investigates how environmental olfactory exposures affect cell-type specific transcriptional responses in the mouse main olfactory epithelium using single-cell RNA sequencing.

This study examines how acute intranasal allergen exposure affects immune cells and sensory neurons in the mouse olfactory epithelium, finding minimal immune cell changes but increased OSN chemosensory sensitivity.

This paper develops a closed-skull mouse model for repetitive mild traumatic brain injury using a custom weight-drop apparatus and evaluates behavioral and neuroinflammatory outcomes.

The paper identifies taurine-conjugated bile acids (tauro-BAs) as novel vomeronasal ligands that activate rodent accessory olfactory system neurons and vary in feces across species and gut microbiomes.

DynamicNeuronTracker enables accurate tracking of neurons in deforming 3D calcium imaging data and reveals combinatorial response profiles of pheromone-sensing neurons to bile acids and sulfated steroids.

The paper uses whole-brain imaging to show that tau pathology in mice propagates retrogradely through brain networks.

This study identifies Arc-expressing interneurons in the accessory olfactory bulb that contribute to chemosensory social behavior plasticity through increased excitability and chemogenetic manipulation.

The paper develops a layered hybrid machine learning workflow to improve the analysis of mouse risk assessment behavior by combining random forest and hidden Markov models.

The paper studies chemosensory tuning in mouse accessory olfactory bulb external granule cells, finding their sparser tuning compared to mitral cells, suggesting distinct functional roles.

The paper identifies bile acid-sensitive vomeronasal receptors in mice using a physiology-forward approach combining calcium imaging and RNA-seq.

The paper investigates functional diversity of inhibitory interneurons in the mouse accessory olfactory bulb using electrophysiological recordings and genetic labeling.

The paper investigates experience-dependent plasticity in accessory olfactory bulb interneurons following male-male social interaction, showing increased intrinsic excitability in Arc-expressing interneurons leads to reduced mitral cell activity.