publications
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selected Research articles from the kohl lab (2019–present)
Jamieson BB, Chen MX, Liang S, El Rasheed LSH, Chattey GMK and Kohl J. Overnight circuit remodelling drives juvenile alloparental care. Preprint: bioRxiv, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659524v1.
Cao M, Ammari R, Chen MX, Wai P, Jamieson BB, Liang S, Husain BFA, Sahni A, Legrave N, MacRae J, Strom M and Kohl J. Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression. Nature, 648(8092):138-145; doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09651-2 (2025). pdf Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625278v1.
Borak N, Wai P, Rodriguez Villamayor P, Claxton PM, Liang S and Kohl J. Dominance rank inference in mice via chemosensation. Current Biology, 35(11):2746-2751.e3; doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.063 (2025). pdf
Ammari R#, Monaca F#, Cao M, Nassar E, Wai E, Del Grosso NA, Lee M, Borak N, Schneider-Luftman D and Kohl J. Hormone-mediated neural remodeling orchestrates parenting onset during pregnancy. Science, 382(6666):76-81; doi: 10.1126/science.adi0576 (2023) pdf. link for full access (# equal contribution)
Jamieson BB, Cano-Ferrer X, Konstantinou G, de Launoit E, Renier N, Imbert A and Kohl J. A low-cost device for cryoanesthesia of neonate rodents. HardwareX, e00417; doi: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246806722300024X (2023). Preprint: bioRxiv 2022.06.09.495437; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.09.495437.pdf.
Autry AE, Wu Z, Kohl J, Bambah-Mukku D, Rubinstein ND, Marin-Rodriguez B, Carta I, Sedwick V and Dulac C. Perifornical area Urocortin-3 neurons promote infant-directed neglect and aggression. eLife, doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64680 (2021). Preprint: bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/07/09/697334.full.pdf (2019).
reviews & perspectives
Husain BFA and Kohl J. Plasticity of the parental brain. Curr Op. Neurobiol., doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2025.103129 (2025). pdf
Borak N and Kohl J. A possible link between olfaction and miscarriage. eLife, doi: 10.7554/eLife.62534 (2020). pdf (Insight)
Ammari R and Kohl J. Charting a Path Toward Aggression. Neuron, 106(4):556-558. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.04.029 (2020). pdf (Preview)
Monaca F and Kohl J. Neuroscience: Plasticity Matters for Mating. Current Biology, 30 (2), R86-R88. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.052 (2020). pdf (Dispatch)
Kohl J. Parenting - a paradigm for investigating the neural circuit basis of behavior. Curr Op. Neurobiol. 60:84-91. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.011 (2020). pdf
Pre-2019
Kohl J. Circuits for care. Science 362(6411):168-169. doi: 10.1126/science.aav1249 (2018). pdf
Kohl J, Babayan BM, Rubinstein ND, Autry AE, Marin-Rodriguez B, Kapoor V, Miyamichi K, Zweifel LS, Luo L and Dulac C. Functional circuit architecture underlying parental behaviour. Nature 556(7701):326-331. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0027-0 (2018). pdf
Spotlight in Trends in Neurosciences by Fischer & O'Connell
Kohl J and Dulac C. Neural control of parental behaviors. Curr Op. Neurobiol. 49:116-122. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.02.002 (2018). pdf
Kohl J, Autry AE and Dulac C. The neurobiology of parenting: A neural circuit perspective. Bioessays 39(1): 1-11. doi: 10.1002/bies.201600159 (2017). pdf
Renier N, Adams EL, Kirst C, Wu Z, Azevedo R, Kohl J, Autry AE, Kadiri L, Umadevi K, Zhou Y, Wang VX, Tang CY, Olsen O, Dulac C, Osten P, Tessier-Lavigne M. Mapping of brain activity by automated volume analysis of immediate early genes. Cell 165(7): 1789-1802. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.007 (2016). pdf
Kohl J, Huoviala P and Jefferis GSXE. Pheromone processing in Drosophila. Curr Op. Neurobiol. 34: 149-57. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.06.009 (2015). pdf
Schneider R, Hosy E, Kohl J, Klueva J, Choquet D, Thomas U, Voigt A and Heine M. Mobility of calcium channels in the presynaptic membrane. Neuron 86(3): 672-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.050 (2015). pdf
Kohl J, Ng J, Cachero S, Ciabatti E, Dolan MJ, Sutcliffe B, Tozer A, Ruehle S, Krueger D, Frechter S, Branco T, Tripodi M, Jefferis GSXE. Ultrafast tissue staining with chemical tags. PNAS 111(36): E3805-14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411087111 (2014). pdf
Kohl J, Ostrovsky AD, Frechter S and Jefferis GSXE. A bidirectional circuit switch reroutes pheromone signals in male and female brains. Cell 155(7): 1610-23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.025 (2013). pdf
Kohl J and Jefferis GSXE. Decoding the fly brain. Current Biology 21(1): R19-20. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.067 (2011). pdf