Juan Burrone

Juan Burrone

Professor of Developmental Neurophysiology, Group Leader


Development of functional neuronal networks

Biography:

Juan Burrone graduated from the University of Bristol, UK, in 1995 with a BSc in Biochemistry. He then obtained a PhD from Cambridge University in 2000, having worked under the supervision of Prof. Leon Lagnado at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). He then moved to the Molecular and Cellular Biology department at Harvard University, USA, to join Prof. Venkatesh Murthy?s lab as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2006 he joined the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology as a lecturer, where he is currently a professor.

He has received many recognitions and awards, including a NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2000); Grable investigator of NARSAD (2001); Wellcome Value in People (VIP) award (2005); Lister Institute Prize winner (2009); Wellcome Trust Young Investigator award (2011); ERC Young Investigator award (2011).

Links:

Thompson Reuters Researcher ID: C-5654-2009
KCL PURE: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/juan.burrone.html

Public Engagement

Celebrating British Science Week!

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

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

Brain Awareness Week Science Café!

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

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!

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!

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

04/11/15
KCL hosts In2Science UK project students

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.

Selected Publications:

Joseph BJ, Marshall KA, Harley P, Mann JR, Alessandrini F, Vanoye CG, Chi W, Prudencio M, Simkin D, Kao TT, Desai RR, Keuss MJ, Barattucci S, Zanovello M, Mehta PR, DeKeyser JM, Limone F, Lee J, Brown AL, Leyton-Jaimes MF, Nash LA, Juan IGS, Aronica E, Wainger BJ, Shah M, Goswami A, Shneider NA, Dickson DW, Burrone J, Zhang C, Wichterle H, Petrucelli L, Watts JK, George AL, Fratta P, Eggan K, Kiskinis E (2025) TDP-43-dependent mis-splicing of KCNQ2 triggers intrinsic neuronal hyperexcitability in ALS/FTD. Nat Neurosci

Lenherr C, Neves G, de Oliveira MG, Burrone J (2025) Bringing Chandelier Cells Out of the Shadows: Exploring the Development of a Unique Neuron Type in the Brain. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol

Ritzau-Jost A, Rajayer S, Nerlich J, Maciag F, John A, Russier M, Sabater VG, Steiger LJ, Coq JO, Eilers J, Engelhardt M, Burrone J, Debanne D, Heine M, Smith SM, Hallermann S (2025) Unreliable homeostatic action potential broadening in cultured dissociated neurons. bioRxiv

Konishi K, Neves G, Russell M, Mimura M, Burrone J, Fleck R (2025) A workflow for semi-automated volume correlative light microscopy and transmission electron tomography. J Microsc