Publications

Please contact me (bgoolsby@stanford.edu) if one of these papers is unavailable for you - I’m happy to send you a PDF!

PUBLICATIONS

(* notes undergraduate author, † notes coauthorship)

7. Billie C. Goolsby, Melody J. Dailey*, Luis A. Coloma, Lauren A. O’Connell (2025). Poison frogs. PMID: 41203861.

6. Sarah Ludington*, Jordan E. McKinney*, Julie M. Butler, Billie C. Goolsby, Ashlyn A. Callan*, Maiah Gaines-Richardson, Lauren A. O’Connell. (2024). Activity of forkhead box P2-positive neurons is associated with tadpole begging behaviour. PMID: 39317327.

5. Amaris R. Lewis*†, Billie C. Goolsby†, Bryan H. Juarez, Madison P. Lacey, Lauren A. O’Connell. (2024). Infanticide is driven by unfamiliarity with offspring location and associated with androgenic shifts in mimic poison frogs. PMID: 39484385.

4. Billie C. Goolsby, E. Jordan Smith, Isabella B. Muratore, Zach N. Coto, Mario L. Muscedere, James F. A. Traniello. (2024). Differential neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and behavioral impacts of early-age isolation in a eusocial insect. PMID: 38857586.

3. Tony G. Chen, Billie C. Goolsby, Guadalupe Bernal*, Lauren A. O’Connell, & Mark R. Cutkosky. (2023). Feed me: robotic infiltration of poison frog families.. ISSN: 1611-3349

News Feature: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-parenting-behavior-poison-frogs-tadpole-like.html

2. Billie C. Goolsby†, Marie-Therese Fischer†, Daniela Pareja-Mejia, Amaris R. Lewis*, Gaelle Raboisson, Lauren A. O’Connell. (2023). Home security cameras as a tool for behavior observations and science affordability. PMID: 37131676. 

1. Jessica P. Nowicki, Camilo Rodríguez, Julia C. Lee*, Billie C. Goolsby, Chen Yang, Thomas A. Cleland, Lauren A. O’Connell. (2024). Physiological state matching in a pair bonded poison frog. PMID: 39076367.

Protocols and Teaching Materials

3. Billie C. Goolsby, A. Zach Reddy, Melody Joy Dailey, Adithi S. Rao, Lauren A. O’Connell. (2025). RNAscope Multiplex Fluorescent V2 Labeling of frog brains. protocols.io dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.261ge874dg47/v8

2. Billie C. Goolsby, Iris N. Mollhoff. bioBUDS: How to Read a Paper. (2023). bioBUDS: Building Up Developing Scientists, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/ZMZ5-X720 

1. Billie C. Goolsby, Tony Chen, Daniel Shaykevich, Marie-Therese Fischer, Lauren A O'Connell. (2024). Optimizing image resolution of wyze camera trap recordings. protocols.io dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.dm6gp3p38vzp/v1

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

(* notes undergraduate author, † notes coauthorship)

3. Yunming Wu†, Prateek Kalakuntla†, Billie Goolsby†, Yanay Rosen, Alyssa Hayashi, Guang Yang, Jessica Nowicki, Lindsay Sailer, David Kabelik, Alexander Ophir, Jaeyoon Lee, Robert C. Jones, Hongkui Zeng, Jure Leskovec, Stephen R. Quake, Lauren O’Connell, Bo Wang, Liqun Luo. Hypothalamic cell type evolution across vertebrate classes.  In preparation for Science.

2. Billie C. Goolsby, Tony G. Chen, Ashlyn A. Callan*, EmJ Rennich, Loranzie Rogers,  Penelope R. Baker*, Madison P. Lacey, Mark R. Cutkosky, Lauren A. O’Connell. Parent-offspring attachment in poison frogs rely on endogenous opioids. In prep.

1. Billie C. Goolsby†, Najva Akbari†,  Ashlyn A. Callan*, Marie-Therese Fischer, Alessandro Felder, Niko Sirmpilatze, Adam Tyson, Lauren A. O'Connell. 3D brain atlases for poison frogs reveal brain remodeling during metamorphosis. In prep.