Below is the list of highlighted publications from our lab. The full list is available on PubMed and Google Scholar.

JAX Animal Behavior System (JABS): A genetics informed, end-to-end advanced behavioral phenotyping platform for the laboratory mouse

Anshul Choudhary, Brian Q Geuther, Thomas J Sproule, Glen Beane, Vivek Kohar, Jarek Trapszo, Vivek Kumar

eLife (2025)

Machine vision-based frailty assessment for genetically diverse mice

Gautam S Sabnis, Gary A Churchill, Vivek Kumar

GeroScience (2025)

An integrated and scalable rodent cage system enabling continuous computer vision-based behavioral analysis and AI-enhanced digital biomarker development

Timothy L RobertsonMichael EllisNatalie Bratcher-PetersenManuel E RuidiazKevin HaradaDebra ToburenJuan Pablo OberhauserDaniel GrzendaNicole E PeltierMadison RazaJan BenwayJamie Kiros, Vivek Kumar

Highly accurate and precise determination of mouse mass using computer vision

Malachy Guzman, Brian Q Geuther, Gautam S Sabnis, Vivek Kumar

Patterns (2024)

Tmod2 Is a Regulator of Cocaine Responses through Control of Striatal and Cortical Excitability and Drug-Induced Plasticity

Arojit Mitra, Sean P Deats, Price E Dickson, Jiuhe Zhu, Justin Gardin, Brian J Nieman, R Mark Henkelman, Nien-Pei Tsai, Elissa J Chesler, Zhong-Wei Zhang, Vivek Kumar

Journal of Neuroscience (2024)

A machine-vision-based frailty index for mice

Leinani E Hession, Gautam S Sabnis, Gary A Churchill, Vivek Kumar

Nature Aging (2022)

High-throughput visual assessment of sleep stages in mice using machine learning

Brian Geuther, Mandy Chen, Raymond J Galante, Owen Han, Jie Lian, Joshy George, Allan I Pack, Vivek Kumar

Sleep (2022)

Stride-level analysis of mouse open field behavior using deep-learning-based pose estimation

Keith Sheppard, Justin Gardin, Gautam S Sabnis, Asaf Peer, Megan Darrell, Sean Deats, Brian Geuther, Cathleen M Lutz, Vivek Kumar

Cell Reports (2022)

Action detection using a neural network elucidates the genetics of mouse grooming behavior

Brian Q Geuther, Asaf Peer, Hao He, Gautam Sabnis, Vivek M Philip, Vivek Kumar

Elife (2021)

Machine learning-based automated phenotyping of inflammatory nocifensive behavior in mice

Janine M Wotton, Emma Peterson, Laura Anderson, Stephen A Murray, Robert E Braun, Elissa J Chesler, Jacqueline K White, Vivek Kumar

Molecular Pain (2020)