Ecology and Evolution of Vocal Communication in Wild Mice
Invited talk at the 2025 Ultrasonic Vocalizations Conference
People
Nick Jourjine
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Basis Research Institute
Nick Jourjine is a postdoctoral research scientist at Basis. He is interested in bridging bioacoustics and social neuroscience, with a focus on tools for automated behavior tracking in the wild. Previously, he was a postdoc with Hopi Hoekstra at Harvard University, where he studied the evolution of neural mechanisms that support vocal communication in deer mice, and Anna Lindholm at the University of Zürich, where he studied seasonal social dynamics in wild house mice.
About
I work with the Collaborative Intelligent Systems group at Basis, where I build tools for passive tracking of wild rats in urban environments. My current work is focused on automated detection of ultrasonic vocalizations in passive acoustic monitoring data, and using bioacoustic signals to infer behavioral and population scale dynamics.In the News
Talks, announcements, and recent highlights.
Projects
Current and recent Basis projects.
Collaborative Intelligent Systems
Tools for understanding and reasoning about complex, multi-agent, real-world dynamical systems using multi-modal animal behavior data.
Recent Publications
Recent papers and preprints.
Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice
N. Jourjine, Caspar Goedecker, Barbara König, Anna K. Lindholm
Selected Publications
Earlier selected work.
Two pup vocalization types are genetically and functionally separable in deer mice
N. Jourjine, Maya L. Woolfolk, Juan I. Sanguinetti-Scheck, John E. Sabatini, Sade McFadden, Anna K. Lindholm, Hopi E. Hoekstra