Jenny Chen

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

I, too, can become aggressive toward my pups (children) when hungry #hangrymom #cantgentleparentonanemptystomach

Anyone out there know of a good public benchmark/dataset for rodent vocalizations?

Something intended for benchmarking ML models (detection, classification, etc) would be ideal, eg like AnuraSet but mice/rats/etc 🐀🐀🐀

#bioacoustics
#prattle💬
#neuroskyence

...and having a major work-life crossover moment as I post this snuggling my own newborn 👶

The parenting styles of deer mice Single-nuclei RNA-sequencing sheds new light on how two closely related species of deer behave differently when mating and caring for young.

A nice, layperson writeup of my latest work, which is now out on eLife!

TLDR: Using snRNA-seq, we find cell type abundance differences and sex-biased gene expression differences that may explain innate differences in mating + parenting behavior

elifesciences.org/digests/1031...

UGA asking the hard hitting questions on their faculty applications

for the original tweetorial: x.com/jjennychenn/...

Excited to share that my preprint about cellular differences in the hypothalamic preoptic region across behaviorally divergent deer mice is now reviewed on eLife! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Hello, world! Always exciting to join a new platform early enough to actually get my name as my handle 💃