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• Megan Kirchgessner, Ann Clemens, Gabrielle Pouchelon, Lauren Orefice, Dominic Frank, Alicia Che. Postnatal development of sensory circuits supporting lifelong social behaviors. Journal of Neuroscience. 2026. in press

• Sandra Tan*, Simone Rencken*, Tom Childs*, Jasmine Stone*, Adam Tiesman*, Pam Anderson*, Michael Brecht^¥, Ann M. Clemens^¥. A Stickiness Response System in Rats. bioRxiv. 2026. Link

• Tomasso, A., Rodrigo Albors, A., Ferreira-Gonzalez, S., Clemens, A., Disela, V. A., Llorens-Bobadilla, E., Lewandowski, S. A., Tiscornia, G., Lamas, S., Sousa, M. M., Makela, O., Meller, A., Kuure, S., Koopmans, T. & Bartscherer, K. Species-specific housing and routine procedures for spiny mice (Acomys) maintained in large individually ventilated cages. Laboratory Animals. 2026. Link

• Daeryeok Ko, Yeong Chan Ryu, Jae Hoon Choi, Eunu Kim, Hyunji Cha, Soyun Joo, Seunghwan Ryu, Hyemin Ryu, Sungwook Shim, Jiyeon Lee, Seulki You, Jiwon Lim, Jie Tong, Catherine P. Lu, Sooil Chang, Ji Ae Kim, Ji Won Oh, Ann M. Clemens, Ashley W. Seifert, Seungbum Hong, Haeshin Lee, Gi-Dong Sim, Hanseul Yang. A novel fracture lattice in spiny mouse skin facilitates tissue autotomy and regeneration. bioRxiv. 2026. Link

• Rocha-Almeida F, Takemoto H, Clemens AM ^¥. Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling. Brain and Neuroscience Advances. 2025. Link

• Ni Z^*, Neifert C*, Rosete A*,  Albeely A*, Yang Y*, Pratelli M*, Brecht M, Clemens AM ^¥. Tactile mechanisms and afferents underlying the rat pup transport response. Current Biology. 2024. Link
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• Attah AT^*, Negron-Moreno PN^*, Amigo-Duran M^*,Zhang L^*, Kenngott M^*, Brecht M^¥, Clemens AM^¥. Sensory Cues, Behavior and Fur-based Drying in the Rat Wetness Response. Scientific Reports. 2024. Link

• Mugnaini M^*, Mehrotra D^*, Davoine F^*, Sharma V^*, Mendes A.R^*, Gerhardt B, Concha-Miranda M, Brecht M^¥, Clemens AM ^¥. Supra-orbital whiskers act as wind sensing antennae in rats. PLOS Biology. 2023. Link
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• Jiménez-Sánchez L, Ginnell L, O’Carroll S, Ledsham V, Stoye DQ, Sullivan G, Hall J, Clemens AM, Boardman JP, Fletcher-Watson S. Early life attachment in term and preterm born infants. medRxiv. 2022. Link

• Dennis EJ, El Hady A, Michaiel A, Clemens A, Tervo D, Voigts J, Datta S. Systems neuroscience of natural behaviors in rodents. Journal of Neuroscience. 2021. Link

• Clemens AM^¥ and Brecht M. Neural representations of kinship. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2021. Link

• Clemens AM, Khodakhah K, Fenton, A. Navigating clues to success in academia. Neuron. 2021. Link

• Clemens A.M.^¥, Wang H., Brecht M^¥. The lateral septum mediates kinship behavior in the rat. Nature Communications. 2020. Link
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• Yuste R., Hawrylycz M., Aalling N., Aguilar-Valles A., Arendt D., Armananzas Arnedillo R., Ascoli G., Bielza C., Bokharaie V., Bergmann T., Bystron I., Capogna M., Chang Y., Clemens A., de Kock C., DeFelipe J., Dos Santos S., Dunville K., Feldmeyer D., Fiáth R., Fishell G., Foggetti A., Gao X., Ghaderi P., Goriounova N., Güntürkün O., Kenta Hagihara, Vanessa Jane Hall, Moritz Helmstaedter, Suzana Herculano, Markus M Hilscher, Hirase H., Hjerling-Leffler J., Hodge R., Huang J., Huda R., Khodosevich K., Kiehn O., Koch H., Kuebler E., Kühnemund M., Larrañaga P., Lelieveldt B., Louth E., Lui J., Mansvelder H., Marin O., Martinez-Trujillo J., Moradi Chameh H., Nath A., Nedergaard M., Němec P., Ofer N., Pfisterer U., Pontes S., Redmond W., Rossier J., Sanes J., Scheuermann R., Serrano-Saiz E., Steiger J., Somogyi P., Tamás G., Tolias A., Tosches M., Turrero García M., Vieira H., Wozny C., Wuttke T., Yong L., Yuan J., Zeng H., Lein E.S. A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types. Nature Neuroscience. 2020. Link

• Clemens A.M., Lenschow C., Beed P., Li L., Sammons R., Naumann R.K., Wang H., Schmitz D., Brecht M. Estrus-Cycle Regulation of Cortical Inhibition**. Current Biology. 2019. Link
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• Clemens A.M.*, Delgado Y.F.*, Mehlman M.L.*, Mishra P.* and Brecht M. Multisensory and Motor Representation of Rat Oral Somatosensory Cortex. Scientific Reports. 2018. Link

• Clemens A.M. and Johnston D. Age- and location-dependent differences in store depletion induced h-channel plasticity in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2013. Link

• Kim J., Nadal M.S., Clemens A.M., Baron M., Jung S.C., Misumi Y., Rudy B., Hoffman D.A. Kv4 accessory protein DPPX is a critical regulator of membrane excitability in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2008. Link

• Kim J., Jung S.C, Clemens A.M., Petralia R.S., Hoffman D.A. Regulation of dendritic excitability by activity-dependent trafficking of the A-type K+ channel subunit Kv4.2 in hippocampal neurons. Neuron. 2007. Link

*equal contribution of authors

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