Publications

* indicates co-first authors

Grace C. McKenzie-Smith* and Scott W. Wolf*, Julien F. Ayroles, Joshua W. Shaevitz. Capturing continuous, long timescale behavioral changes in Drosophila melanogaster postural data. PLOS Computational Biology, 2025.

Scott W. Wolf, Dee M. Ruttenberg, Daniel Y. Knapp, Andrew E. Webb, Ian M. Traniello, Grace C. McKenzie-Smith, Sophie A. Leheny, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Sarah D. Kocher. NAPS: Integrating pose estimation and tag-based tracking. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023.

Z. Yan Wang* and Grace C. McKenzie-Smith*, Weijie Liu, Hyo Jin Cho, Talmo Pereira, Zahra Dhanerawala, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Sarah D. Kocher. Isolation disrupts social interactions and destabilizes brain development in bumblebees. Current Biology, 2022.

Talmo D. Pereira, Nathanial Tabris, Arie Matsliah, David M. Turner, Junyu Li, Shruthi Ravindranath, Eleni S. Papadoyannis, Edna Normand, David S. Deutsch, Z. Yan Wang, Grace C. McKenzie-Smith, Catalin C. Mitelut, Marielisa Diez Castro, John D’Uva, Mikhail Kislin, Dan H. Sanes, Sarah D. Kocher, Samuel S.-H. Wang, Annegret L. Falkner, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Mala Murthy. SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking. Nature Methods 19:486-495, 2022.

Myron Barber Child VI, Jack R. Bateman, Amir Jahangiri, Armando Reimer, Nicholas C. Lammers, Nica Sabouni, Diega Villamarin, Grace C. McKenzie-Smith, Justine E. Johnson, Daniel Jost, Hernan G. Garcia. Live imaging and biophysical modeling support and button-based mechanism of somatic homolog pairing in Drosophila. Elife 10:e64412, 2021.