Katie Long

Katie Long

Senior Lecturer, Group Leader



Biography:

Katie Long completed her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Science at Sheffield University before moving to The University of Edinburgh to undertake her PhD with Charles french-Constant at the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine. During her PhD, she revealed the critical role of integrins in neural development using the chick as a model system. She subsequently expanded her work on extracellular matrix and neural development as a postdoc with Wieland Huttner at the MPI-CBG in Dresden, where she has developed a novel system to investigate and manipulate human neocortical development which has uncovered a novel role for the extracellular matrix in the folding of the human neocortex. She was awarded a King's Prize Fellowship and Professor Anthony Mellows Medal in 2018 and started as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders in 2019. She is currently an MRC Career Development Fellow.

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0660-2486

Related News:

Spotlight on SARS-CoV-2 in the foetal brain

14/01/23
New publication from the Long lab

Katie Long joins Centre as a new investigator

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

All Publications:

2025

Tapia VS, Withers SE, Zhou R, Bennington A, Hoyle C, Hedley F, El Khouja A, Luka N, Massimo M, Crilly S, Long KR, Lawrence CB, Kasher PR (2025) The role of 25-hydroxycholesterol in the pathophysiology of brain vessel dysfunction associated with infection and cholesterol dysregulation. Dis Model Mech

Perochon T, Krsnik Z, Massimo M, Ruchiy Y, Romero AL, Mohammadi E, Li X, Long KR, Parkkinen L, Blomgren K, Lagache T, Menassa DA, Holcman D (2025) Unraveling microglial spatial organization in the developing human brain with DeepCellMap, a deep learning approach coupled with spatial statistics. Nat Commun

2024

Clark AT, Goolam M, Hanna JH, Long K, Nicol D, Petropoulos S, Saitou M, Tam PPL, Wang H (2024) Human developmental biology - a global perspective. Development

Clark AT, Goolam M, Hanna JH, Long K, Nicol D, Petropoulos S, Saitou M, Tam PPL, Wang H (2024) Human developmental biology - a global perspective. Development

Clark AT, Goolam M, Hanna JH, Long K, Nicol D, Petropoulos S, Saitou M, Tam PPL, Wang H (2024) Human developmental biology - a global perspective. Development

Cubillos P, Ditzer N, Kolodziejczyk A, Schwenk G, Hoffmann J, Schütze TM, Derihaci RP, Birdir C, Köllner JE, Petzold A, Sarov M, Martin U, Long KR, Wimberger P, Albert M (2024) The growth factor EPIREGULIN promotes basal progenitor cell proliferation in the developing neocortex. EMBO J