Emily Jones

Emily Jones

Professor of Developmental Translational Neuroscience, Group Leader


Mechanisms driving developmental trajectories

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5747-9540

News

Synapse safari: a journey into citizen science

28/11/25
2,000 volunteers and tens of thousands of segmented synaptic boutons

Richard Taylor awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowship

20/11/25
Prestigious 5-year Fellowship awarded to CDN researcher

Welcome to Dr Patrcia Garcez, Lecturer in Neuroscience Education

18/11/25
CDN welcomes a new Education Leader

Towards a common approach for autism in Europe

08/05/25
Landmark conference at EU Parliament

Neuroverse: A journey through neuroscience and the great beyond

25/03/25
A podcast for curious minds

Laura Sichlinger receives MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship

10/03/25
SYNGAP1 isoforms and their role in brain development

Andrea Maset awarded prestigious postdoctoral fellowship

14/02/25
Synapse polarity in inhibitory connection formation

Corinne Houart receives Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award

11/02/25
Award recognises outstanding leaders in zebrafish research

Sadra Sadeh joins CDN as new group leader

11/02/25
New computational neuroscience lab

Wolfson Foundation awards £1.5m to launch new Centre for Human Brain Development

02/02/25
Funding will establish new Brain Organoids Laboratory

Dev Neuro Academy wins King’s award

27/01/25
Programme recognised for outstanding integrated education, research, and service

Grubb lab receives Open Research Award

07/01/25
IoPPN Award recognises commitment to open science

Understanding neuronal growth

12/12/24
Laura Andreae awarded new Leverhulme Trust funding

LIDo PhD programme renewed offering more than 130 studentships

27/11/24
Bioscience given government boost

Maria Conde-Dusman receives Wellcome Early Career Award

14/11/24
New work funded on early life sensory experience

Manipulating a morphogen in space and time

12/11/24
Anthony Graham and Malcolm Logan awarded BBSRC grant

CDN welcomes Professor Emily Jones

29/10/24
Emily Jones moves to King’s

Laura Andreae receives Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award

19/09/24
Award for promotion of women in neuroscience

RNA in axons, dendrites, synapses, and beyond

09/09/24
New review from Richard Taylor and alumnus Nikolas Nikolaou

Juan Burrone and Ivo Lieberam awarded MRC Programme Grant

12/08/24
Grant awarded to investigate novel potential strategy for ALS rescue

Beatriz Rico receives prestigious Wellcome Award

10/07/24
£4m grant for understanding human inhibitory circuit development

Dr Nicolás Marichal receives an award

23/05/24
Dr Nicolás Marichal receives Emerging Leadership Fellowship Award from Epilepsy Research Institute UK

EPNA 2023

25/01/24
Dr Ana Dorrego-Rivas receives 'Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award'

King's Engaged Researcher Award for Early Career Researcher.

16/01/24
Phoebe Reynolds receives KERA Award

New research cluster to decode developmental disorders

01/01/24
UKRI funds initiative to unravel genetic bases

The Epilepsy Research Institute Launch at 10 Downing Street

25/10/23
Professor Juan Burrone appointed Co-Lead for the Epilepsy Research Institute

Dr Rita Sousa-Nunes receives a grant

19/10/23
Brain Research UK awards research grant to Sousa-Nunes Laboratory to investigate “Neural tumour anachronism”

Dr Ana Dorrego-Rivas receives an award

19/09/23
Wellcome Early-Career Award given to Dr Ana Dorrego-Rivas (Grubb Lab)

The Centre for Developmental Neurobiology Scientific Retreat 2023

14/09/23
The 1st CDN Scientific Retreat

Dr Adil Khan receives £3.44 million Wellcome Career Development Award

07/09/23
Dr Adil Khan awarded the Career Development Award

Major new award for innovative RNA research on neurological disorders

23/07/23
Wellcome Trust funds pioneering new programme

Professor Corinne Houart appointed IoPPN Vice Dean Research

17/07/23
Professor Corinne Houart has been appointed IoPPN Vice Dean Research

CDN Away Day 2023

24/06/23
The centre's annual Away Day for 2023 took place on 23rd June

Congratulations to Professor Richard Wingate on the publication of his book

01/05/23
"The Story of the Brain in 10 and ½ Cells"

Professor Oscar Marín receives the FENS-EJN Prize

28/04/23
Prestigious prize in recognition of his outstanding scientific work in neuroscience.

Oscar Marín receives 2023 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award

20/04/23
Prestigious prize in recognition of contributions to the field

Two new group leaders to join the CDN

20/10/22
Laura Pellegrini & Dimitar Kostadinov win major awards

Robert Hindges appointed Managing Director of the CDN

17/10/22
Reorganisation of management at the Centre

Oscar Marín elected Fellow of the Royal Society

11/05/22
Election in recognition of influential discoveries

Credible Neuroscience

13/04/22
Matt Grubb awarded BNA Researcher Credibility Prize

New EMBO Members from CDN

08/06/21
Prof Houart and Prof Rico elected EMBO Members

Benedikt Berninger awarded ERC Advanced Grant

22/04/21
Unleashing the potential of engineered neurogenesis for brain repair

NeuroAgenda launches

25/03/21
Celebrating International Women's Day 2021

Prof Houart receives Investigator Award

17/09/20
A Wellcome success: prestigious programme grant awarded to Corinne Houart

We don’t need to fix women to become leaders

19/08/20
Prof Corinne Houart, on women in leadership

2020 Fellows of Academy of Medical Sciences

13/05/20
Oscar Marín nominated as new Fellow

Beatriz Rico awarded ERC Advanced Grant

31/03/20
Grant awarded to investigate effects of early sensory environment

CDN FOXG1 syndrome research featured on podcast

09/03/20
The Naked Scientists interview Hannah Bruce about her work

Oscar Marín receives Remedios Caro Almela Award

18/10/19
Prize awarded in recognition of outstanding work in developmental neurobiology

Global Climate Strike

20/09/19
Climate change is happening

Science and the future of Franco-British relations

21/08/19
Clémence Bernard nominated as Young Leader for Franco-British Council

Katie Long joins Centre as a new investigator

12/06/19
New group leader in development of human neocortex

Fly Lab

14/02/19
New programme launched to champion the next generation of fly scientists

“Brexit is bad for science”

19/12/18
Brexit could have devastating consequences for UK science say leading researchers

Can we build ourselves a better brain?

23/10/18
Top neuroscientists discuss the potential to upgrade our brains

Understanding the effect of sex in autism

27/09/18
Researchers discuss new findings that may help us understand sex differences in autism

The FENS-Kavli winter symposium reviewed

31/08/18
Dr Laura Andreae gives her perspective on the symposium spanning current research on chronic pain, demyelinating disease, Alzheimer’s disease and autism spectrum disorder

Editors’ Choice: Self-sustained seizure inhibition

24/08/18
Dr Laura Andreae’s review describes hope for treatment-resistant focal epilepsy.

Autism pathogenesis linked to SHANK3

24/08/18
Initial findings from the Andreae lab show SHANK3 mRNA expression varies during development and in ASD-associated SHANK3 heterozygosity.

Houart lab wins BBSRC grant.

08/08/18
Professor Corinne Houart has been awarded funding to study the impact of temporal regulation of signalling centres on brain complexity.

Oscar Marín awarded ERC Advanced Grant

09/04/18
The project will investigate the role of interneurons in the functional specialisation of neocortical areas

Celebrating British Science Week!

28/03/18
Our Glow in the Dark Science roadshow went to visit three primary schools.

Emilia Favuzzi: winner of the Beddington medal

19/02/18
Emilia Favuzzi awarded the 2018 Beddington medal

Welcome to two new labs!

02/02/18
Welcome to Adil Khan and Benedikt Berninger labs

Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow

01/12/17
Congratulations to Clare Buckley who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship

Anthony Graham awarded BBSRC grant

15/11/17
The funding will support research on the development of the pharyngeal pouches and clefts.

Developmental neurobiology: from worms to mammals

01/08/17
This June, the centre hosted the 5th edition of the EMBO practical workshop

Second edition of the DevNeuro Academy!

31/07/17
The Centre’s flagship Widening Participation project brought 20 students for a two week research placement

Global Engagement - King's Worldwide

31/07/17
Darren, Juan, Martin, Anthony and Richard will visit the National Centre for Biological Sciences in India

Silver award for a sustainable lab!

27/07/17
Our Centre has achieved a silver award for laboratory sustainability

Paride Antinucci awarded Tadion Rideal Prize

26/07/17
Another prize for Paride Antinucci!

Robert Hindges awarded Leverhulme Trust grant

20/07/17
The funding will support research on the molecular diversity of specific synaptic interactions

New Mentoring Programme for Postdocs

03/07/17
The CDN, Randall Division and Wolfson CARD launch new cross-departmental mentoring programme

CDN researchers score a BBSRC Grants Hat-trick

03/07/17
Jon Clarke, Robert Hindges and Eugene Makeyev awarded three BBSRC Research Grants

2017 Centre Away Day

26/06/17
The CDN celebrated its annual Away Day with all members of staff on 9 June

2017 Elsevier Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize

19/06/17
CDN alumnus Dr Paride Antinucci awarded prize

University of Suffolk students visit CDN

30/05/17
Final year BSc (Hons) Bioscience students visit the CDN and Guy's Campus research facilities

Camilla Larsen BBSRC New Investigator Award

11/04/17
The funding will support research on the neural pathway underlying chemotaxis in the fruit fly

Brain Awareness Week Science Café!

06/04/17
Zombie neurons and the dark network!

Celebrating British Science Week!

22/03/17
Our Glow in the Dark Science roadshow went to visit Tower Bridge Primary School.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

01/02/17
Camilla Iannone has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship!

NC3Rs Training Fellowship

30/01/17
Mark Rigby has been awarded a NC3Rs Postdoctoral Training Fellowship!

Matthew Grubb awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

16/01/17
The funding will support research on the functional role of new neurons in the adult brain.

Martin Meyer New Wellcome Investigator Award

12/01/17
The funding will support research on visual encoding by neuronal populations.

Laura Andreae awarded NARSAD Young Investigator Grant

14/10/16
The project aims to lay the foundations for drug treatments of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Dev Neuro Academy 2017

22/09/16
We're busy preparing the second edition of Dev Neuro Academy. If you want to know what it is all about, see our video!

Beatriz Rico New Wellcome Investigator Award

02/09/16
The funding will support pioneering research into specific neural network assembly and organisation.

Laura Andreae awarded BBSRC Research Grant

01/09/16
The project will examine the role of neurotransmitter release in synapse formation.

First edition of the DevNeuro Academy!

19/07/16
The Centre’s flagship Widening Participation project brought 17 sixth-form students for a two week research placement

Starting new traditions: Centre Away Day

27/06/16
The CDN celebrated its first Away Day with all members of staff on 17 June, in Hertfordshire.

Leverhulme Trust grant awarded to Matt Grubb

03/05/16
Matt Grubb has been awarded a Research Grant from the Leverhulme Trust

Celebrating British Science Week!

15/04/16
Our Glow in the Dark Science roadshow went to visit three primary schools. Over 200 pupils got ‘their hands dirty’ in a series of activities around the use of fluorescence in modern biomedical sciences.

Great turn-up for our special BAW event!

14/04/16
More than 50 people came to the Cittie of Yorke for our special Brain Awareness Week - Science Café!

Scientific Advisory Board visit

12/04/16
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) visited the CDN for two days on April 11-12, 2016.

MRC grant awarded to Ivo Lieberam

29/03/16
Ivo Lieberam and Andrew Lowe have been awarded a Research Grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC)

IRP Research Grant awarded to Matt Grubb

18/03/16
Matt Grubb has been awarded a Research Grant from the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (IRP).

Professor Corinne Houart recognised with an award

14/03/16
Corinne Houart has been recognised at the annual Medical Research Council event, Suffrage Science.

Marie-Curie Fellowship

01/03/16
Fong Kuan Wong has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship!

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship

05/01/16
Kinga Bercsenyi has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her research on interneuron apoptosis during development.

EMBO Long-Term Fellowships

05/01/16
Fong Kuan Wong & Patricia Gordon have been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship.

KHP Challenge Fund Grant

30/11/15
Richard Wingate has been awarded a King's Health Partners Research and Development Challenge Fund.

PhD students and postdocs take on editor role

04/11/15
PhD students from the MRC CDN produce an issue of The Biochemist

In2scienceuk students experience what's it like to be a scientist

04/11/15
KCL hosts In2Science UK project students

UC Irvine undergraduate summer research experience

11/09/15
This summer the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology continued a 22 year old tradition of hosting students from the USA as part of the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) program.

Cortical Interneurons in Health and Disease

07/09/15
This June, the 2015 EMBO workshop in Mallorca brought scholars together to discuss the latest advances on cortical interneurons.

Hands-on Developmental Neurobiology

04/09/15
Over two weeks in June / July, the centre hosted the 4th EMBO course in Developmental Neurobiology.

KCL @ Technopop: glowing days of outreach and public engagement

01/09/15
Over three days in July, the centre put on displays at Tecnopop in Brixton, a free festival of science for young people.

Postgraduate Research Symposium 2015

08/07/15
On July 7, over 250 staff and students attended the 6th Postgraduate Research Symposium.

Undergraduate visit

15/06/15
Students from the University Campus Suffolk (UCS), Ipswich, visited the centre to discover for themselves what a career in neuroscience is really like.

Andrew Lowe receives Wellcome Seed Award

12/06/15
Andrew Lowe has been successful in obtaining one of the Wellcome Trust's new research seed awards for developing a novel approach in the investigation and cataloguing of functional topography in zebrafish vision.

Brilliant Club pupils visit the centre

18/05/15
Elisa Galliano from the centre has been working as a tutor for The Brilliant Club, delivering university style tutorials on learning and memory to a group of pupils from Lampton School as part of King's widening participation initiative.

Radio Interview - neuromuscular disease

18/05/15
Today at 18:32 GMT (7:30pm UK time) on the BBC World Service, Dr. Ivo Lieberam (KCL) and Professor Linda Greensmith (UCL) discuss the potential role of optogenetics in therapies for neuronal diseases.

Prof Marín awarded prize

17/04/15
Prof Marín awarded Prix Roger De Spoelberch

MRC grant for inter-disciplinary team

28/03/13
The MRC has awarded a grant of £830,000 to Dr Albert Basson.

Selected Publications:

Schaubroeck S, Demurie E, Begum-Ali J, Bölte S, Boterberg S, Buitelaar J, Charman T, Falck-Ytter T, Hunnius S, Johnson MH, Jones E, Oosterling I, Pasco G, Pijl M, Van den Boomen C, Warreyn P, Roeyers H (2025) The stability of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2 in children aged 14-36 months with elevated likelihood for autism. J Child Psychol Psychiatry

Mehra C, Beyh A, Laiou P, Garces P, Jones EJH, Mason L, Buitelaar J, Johnson MH, Murphy D, Loth E, Dell'Acqua F, Ewen JB, Richardson MP, O'Muircheartaigh J (2025) Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers. Imaging Neurosci (Camb)

Laudańska Z, Caunt A, Cristia A, Warlaumont A, Patsis K, Tomalski P, Warreyn P, Abney DH, Borjon JI, Airaksinen M, Jones EJ, Bölte S, Dall M, Holzinger D, Poustka L, Roeyers H, Wass S, Zhang D, Marschik PB (2025) From data to discovery: Technology propels speech-language research and theory-building in developmental science. Neurosci Biobehav Rev

Begum-Ali J, Mason L, Charman T, Johnson MH, Green J, Garg S, Jones EJH, (2025) Disrupted visual attention relates to cognitive development in infants with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. J Neurodev Disord