Sue Jones

BSc (Kings), PhD (UCL)

College roles

Bye-Fellow
Assistant Tutor (Undergraduates & Postgraduates)
Postgraduate Mentor

University roles

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience

Biography

Dr Susan Jones is a neurobiologist, studying how individual neurons in the mammalian brain communicate and adapt.

Sue studied for her BSc in Pharmacology at King’s College London and then completed her PhD in Pharmacology with Professor David Brown at University College London. She carried out postdoctoral research in the USA, working first with Dr Jerrel Yakel (NIEHS-NIH) and then with Dr Julie Kauer (Duke; Brown). Sue joined the University of Cambridge as a lecturer and group leader in 2001. She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Sue’s research investigates how mammalian brain neurons communicate with each other via electrical and chemical signals, and how these signals change during brain plasticity, for example during brain development, or in models of neuropsychiatric disorders. She currently focusses on neuronal plasticity in hypothalamic neurons that control puberty and fertility, and neuronal plasticity in brain regions implicated in substance use disorder.