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social neuroscience, social behavior, social dominance, social brain, social networks
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

1999-09-01 to 2003-07-01 | PhD (Zoology)
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James Curley

University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1996-01-09 to 1999-01-06 | BA Human Sciences
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James Curley

Professional activities (66)

Department of Psychology, UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2024-02-21 to present | Teaching Chats Group (Presentation on "Evaluating Student Evaluations")
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James Curley

Teaching: Austin, TX, US

2024-01-01 to present | Co-Instructor (PSY 341K Behavioral Data Science in Industry)
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James Curley

Department of Psychology, UT Austin: Austin, US

2024-01-01 to present | Job Search Committee member for Assistant Professor of Instruction in Data Science
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James Curley

COLA, University of Texas: Austin, TX, US

2024-01-01 to present | Dean's Distinguished Graduate Award Selection Committee (Committee Member)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2023-12-01 to present | PhD Committee Member (Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters) (Psychology)
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James Curley

Neuroscience Department, UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2023-08-01 to present | PhD Committee Member (Britt Mardis)
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James Curley

UT Austin Vice-Chair IACUC: Austin, TX, US

2023-05-01 to present | Vice-Chair (IACUC)
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James Curley

UT Austin: Austin, Texas, US

2023-01 to present | Course Designer and Developer. (UEX Course: PSY 317L “Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences”. )
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2023 to present | PhD Committee Member Department of Biology (Landon Porter)
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UT Austin: Austin, Texas, US

2022-09 to present | Head of Behavioral Neuroscience (Psychology Department)
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2022 to present | Committee Member, University Awards Committee (UT Austin)
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James Curley

UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2022 to present | Co-Director of Behavioral Data Science Initiative (Psychology Department)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2022 to present | Dissertation Supervisor (Sydney Seese)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2022 to present | Dissertation Supervisor (Kathryn Mahach)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2022 to present | Dissertation Supervisor (Koll Rada)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2022 to present | PhD Committee Member Department of Biology (Sunishka Thakur)
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James Curley

European Brain and Behaviour Society: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, FR

2022 to present (Board Member)
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Presenter at Prehealth-II FIG and Transfer-Year Interest Groups TRIG
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Member COLA Data Science Task Force.
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James Curley

Teaching: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Instructor (PSY 120R “R Programming for Behavioral Sciences”)
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James Curley

Teaching: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Instructor (UGS 302 “Being Social” )
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, US

2021 to present | PhD Committee Member Neuroscience Department (Shelby Towers)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | PhD Committee Member Department of Biology (Luke Larter)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | PhD Committee Member Department of Biology (Emily Lessig)
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James Curley

Liberal Arts UG Research Scholarship.: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present (Grant Reviewer)
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Co-coordinator, Psychology Department Data Science Summer Internship Program.
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Psychology Assessment Committee (Evaluates Psychology Curriculum).
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James Curley

Department of Psychology: Austin, TX, US

2021 to present | Presenter of Introduction to Git and R programming (Psychology Department Bootcamp Presenter)
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James Curley

Teaching: Austin, TX, US

2020 to present | Instructor (PSY 317L “Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences”. )
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2020 to present | Committee Member, Data Science Task Force, Department of Psychology.
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2019 to present | IACUC member
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James Curley

National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems: Arlington, VA, US

2019 to present | Ad-hoc grant reviewer
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2019 to present | Dissertation Supervisor (Maddie Dwortz)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, US

2019 to present | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (Kevin Moran)
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James Curley

Journal Reviewing: Austin, TX, US

2019 to present | Ad-hoc reviewer for multiple journals
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2019 to present | Committee Member, Graduate Program Taskforce Committee.
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2019 to present | Workshop on R programming and open-science, Graduate Bootcamp, Department of Psychology
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PeerJ (United States): San Diego, California, US

2018 to present | Associate Editor
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2018 to present | Dissertation Supervisor (Tyler Marie Milewski)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2018 to present | Dissertation Supervisor (Isaac Crews)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2019 to 2024 | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (Julia Chafkin)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2018 to 2024 | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (Kaila Parker)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, US

2018 to 2024 | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (Kylee Smith)
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James Curley

Scientists Center for Animal Welfare: San Antonio, TX, US

2023-12-04 to 2023-12-05 | Conference on Animal Welfare in Scientific Research (Attendee)
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James Curley

Teaching: Austin, TX, US

2022-09 to 2023-07-01 | Organizer, Spring & Fall semesters (Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar)
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James Curley

Encouraging data sharing and reuse in the field of collective behavior through hackathon-collaborative workshops: Austin, US

2022 to 2023 | Organizer of Workshop
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James Curley

Society for Social Neuroscience: Austin, TX, US

2017 to 2023 | Board Member
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2022 | President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, UT Austin
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2022 to 2022 | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (James Madole)
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The Royal Society of Biology: London, London, GB

2021 to 2022 | Editor of Special Issue.
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 | Dr. Wendy Domjan Excellence in Teaching Award. Department of Psychology, UT Austin (Psychology Department)
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 | Affordable Education Champion. Awarded by Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries, UT Austin
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UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to 2021 | Presenter at Texas Students Psychological Association.
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Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2021 to 2021 | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (Laura Agee)
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2021 to 2021 | PhD Committee Member Department of Psychology (Patrick Durkee)
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Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to 2021 | Job Search Committee member for Assistant Professor of Instruction in Data Science.
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2021 to 2021 | Co-Chair Job Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Computational Approaches to Social Behavior
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James Curley

UT Austin Johnson & Johnson WISTEM2D program.: Austin, TX, US

2020 to 2021 | Grant Reviewer
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Society for Social Neuroscience: Austin, US

2020 to 2021 | Program and Planning Committee Chair
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National Science Foundation: VA, VA, US

2020 to 2020 | NSF Panel Member: Accelerating Research through International Network to Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program
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Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2019 to 2020 | Committee Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Department of Psychology.
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James Curley

Teaching: Austin, TX, US

2017 to 2020 | Instructor (PSY 418 “Research Methods and Statistics” )
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James Curley

Mentoring: Austin, TX, US

2015 to 2020 | Dissertation Supervisor (Won Lee)
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James Curley

UT Austin VPR Research & Creative Grants: Austin, TX, US

2019 to 2019 | Grant Reviewer
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James Curley

Encouraging data sharing and reuse in the field of collective behavior through hackathon-collaborative workshops: Brooklyn, NY, US

2019 to 2019 | Organizer of Workshop
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James Curley

Department of Psychology UT Austin: Austin, TX, US

2019 to 2019 | Committee Member, Tenure Promotion Committee for Dr Jarrod Lewis-Peacock.
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James Curley

Funding (2)

Neural processing of status signals in social hierarchies

2023-04 to 2025-03 | Grant
NIH (Bethesda, US)
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James Curley

Encouraging Data Sharing and Reuse in the Field of Collective Behavior through Hackathon-Style Collaborative Workshops

2018-10-01 to 2022-09-30 | Grant
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1839022
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James Curley via DimensionsWizard

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Rapid changes in plasma corticosterone and medial amygdala transcriptome profiles during social status change reveal molecular pathways associated with a major life history transition in mouse dominance hierarchies

PLOS Genetics
2025-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Tyler M. Milewski; John Ewer; Won Lee; Rebecca L. Young; Hans A. Hofmann; James P. Curley
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Capturing Dynamic Neuronal Responses to Dominant and Subordinate Social Hierarchy Members with catFISH

2024-12-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Madeleine F. Dwortz; James P. Curley
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Rapid changes in plasma corticosterone and medial amygdala transcriptome profiles during social status change reveal molecular pathways associated with a major life history transition in mouse dominance hierarchies

2024-05-31 | Preprint
Contributors: Tyler M Milewski; Won Lee; Rebecca L. Young; Hans A. Hofmann; James P Curley
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Metabolic profiling of dominant and subordinate male mice living in social hierarchies

Society for Behav
2023 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Real-time assessment of volatile organic compound emissions from freely behaving mice in dominance hierarchies

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
2023 | Conference poster
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Single-cell transcriptomics of the mouse medial preoptic area reveals sex-dependent molecular signatures of social dominance

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
2023 | Conference poster
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Transgenerational Epigenetics

Handbook of Epigenetics
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780323919098
Contributors: James P. Curley; Rahia Mashoodh; Frances A. Champagne
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James Curley

Neural correlates of behavior during novel large group interactions in the highly social spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)

Society for Neusocience
2023-11-13 | Conference poster
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Shaping the development of complex social behavior.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2023-10-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Curley JP; Frances Anne Champagne
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James Curley

Behavioral and Physiological Plasticity in Social Hierarchies

Department of Psychology, UT Austin
2023-08 | Lecture
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Knowing who's boss: how social status impacts the brain and health

Texas Exes Association, UT Austin
2023-04 | Lecture
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Explaining the gender gap in negotiation performance: Social network ties outweigh internal barriers

Journal of Social Issues
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Kate M. Turetsky; James P. Curley; Ashli B. Carter; Valerie Purdie‐Greenaway
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Distinct inflammatory and transcriptomic profiles in dominant versus subordinate males in mouse social hierarchies

Brain Behavior and Immunity
2022 | Journal article
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James Curley

Network Hawkes process models for exploring latent hierarchy in social animal interactions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
2022-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0035-9254
Part of ISSN: 1467-9876
Contributors: Owen G. Ward; Jing Wu; Tian Zheng; Anna L. Smith; James P. Curley
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James Curley

Behavioral & physiological plasticity in mouse social hierarchies

University of Delaware
2022-10 | Lecture
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Imaging neural representations of social rank using catFISH

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
2022-07 | Conference poster
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Metabolic and endocrine profiles associated with activity patterns and social status during the formation and maintenance of mouse social hierarchies 

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
2022-07 | Conference poster
Contributors: James Curley
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James Curley

Social status mediated variation in hypothalamic transcriptional profiles of male mice

Hormones and Behavior
2022-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0018-506X
Contributors: W. Lee; M.F. Dwortz; T.M. Milewski; F.A. Champagne; J.P. Curley
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James Curley

Markov-modulated Hawkes processes for modeling sporadic and bursty event occurrences in social interactions

The Annals of Applied Statistics
2022-06-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1932-6157
Contributors: Jing Wu; Owen G. Ward; James Curley; Tian Zheng
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James Curley

Cortical ensembles orchestrate social competition through hypothalamic outputs.

Nature
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Padilla-Coreano N; Batra K; Patarino M; Chen Z; Rock RR; Zhang R; Hausmann SB; Weddington JC; Patel R; Zhang YE et al.
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James Curley via Europe PubMed Central

Behavioural and physiological plasticity in social hierarchies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: T. M. Milewski; W. Lee; F. A. Champagne; J. P. Curley
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DomArchive: a century of published dominance data

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Eli D. Strauss; Alex R. DeCasien; Gabriela Galindo; Elizabeth A. Hobson; Daizaburo Shizuka; James P. Curley
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Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Madeleine F. Dwortz; James P. Curley; Kay M. Tye; Nancy Padilla-Coreano
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The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Eli D. Strauss; James P. Curley; Daizaburo Shizuka; Elizabeth A. Hobson
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Networks never rest: An investigation of network evolution in three species of animals

Social Networks
2022-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0378-8733
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James Curley

A cortical-hypothalamic circuit decodes social rank and promotes dominance behavior

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) Annual Meeting.
2021 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Behavioral, physiological and neurobiological plasticity in mouse social hierarchies

Virtual
2021 | Lecture
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James Curley

Cortical ensembles decode social rank and promote dominance behavior via hypothalamic projections

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
2021 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Distinct immunophenotypic and transcriptomic responses to social status in mouse social hierarchies

Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting
2021 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Network dynamics of social hierarchy formation

Virtual
2021 | Lecture
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James Curley

Power differentials in Social Hierarchies: Why and how they emerge and their consequences for behavior and health

Virtual
2021 | Lecture
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James Curley

Social ascension and descension in mouse social hierarchies lead to rapid changes in plasma corticosterone and neural gene expression

Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting
2021 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Social Movements: mapping spatial dynamics in mouse social hierarchies using RFID tracking

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
2021 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Distinct inflammatory and transcriptomic profiles in dominant versus subordinate males in mouse social hierarchies

2021-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Lee W; Milewski TM; Dwortz MF; Young RL; Gaudet AD; Fonken LK; Champagne FA; Curley JP
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James Curley via Europe PubMed Central

Effect of relative social rank within a social hierarchy on neural activation in response to familiar or unfamiliar social signals.

Scientific reports
2021-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Lee W; Dowd HN; Nikain C; Dwortz MF; Yang ED; Curley JP
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James Curley via Europe PubMed Central

Behavioral, physiological and neurobiological plasticity in mouse social hierarchies

Virtual
2020 | Lecture
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James Curley

Effective Data Visualization for Behavioral Neuroscientists

UT Austin
2020 | Lecture
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James Curley

Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences using R

2020 | Book
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James Curley

Social information use in mouse social hierarchies

Virtual
2020 | Lecture
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James Curley

A cortical-hypothalamic circuit decodes social rank and promotes dominance behavior

2020-11 | Preprint
Contributors: Padilla-Coreano N; Batra K; Patarino M; Chen Z; Rock R; Zhang R; Hausmann S; Weddington J; Patel R; Zhang Y et al.
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James Curley via Europe PubMed Central

A psychological intervention strengthens students' peer social networks and promotes persistence in STEM.

Science advances
2020-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Turetsky KM; Purdie-Greenaway V; Cook JE; Curley JP; Cohen GL
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James Curley via Europe PubMed Central

Effect of relative social rank within a social hierarchy on neural activation in response to familiar or unfamiliar social signals

2020-08-25 | Preprint
Contributors: Won Lee; Hollie N. Dowd; Cyrus Nikain; Madeleine F. Dwortz; Eilene D. Yang; James P. Curley
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Stress in groups: Lessons from non-traditional rodent species and housing models.

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
2020-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Beery AK; Holmes MM; Lee W; Curley JP
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James Curley via Europe PubMed Central

Behavioral and Physiological Plasticity in Mouse Social Hierarchies

Erice, Sicily, Italy
2019 | Lecture
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James Curley

Effects of social experience on immune parameters and brain transcriptome in mouse social hierarchies,

Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting
2019 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Investigating how the prefrontal -lateral hypothalamic circuit modulates social dominance behaviors

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
2019 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Investigating how the prefrontal -lateral hypothalamic circuit modulates social dominance behaviors

Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
2019 | Conference poster
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James Curley

Using RCloud for Statistical Teaching and Collaboration

Austin TX
2019 | Lecture
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James Curley

Who fights who and why?

Santa Fe Institute Workshop
2019 | Lecture
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James Curley

Temporal microstructure of dyadic social behavior during relationship formation in mice

PLOS ONE
2019-12-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Won Lee; Igor Branchi; Jiayi Fu; Neal Bouwman; Pam Farago; James P. Curley
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Peer review (11 reviews for 6 publications/grants)

Review activity for Behavioral ecology and sociobiology. (1)
Review activity for Behavioural processes. (2)
Review activity for Communications biology. (1)
Review activity for Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. (2)
Review activity for Physiology & behavior. (4)
Review activity for Science advances. (1)