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Emily A. Aery Jones, PhD

Academic Title:

Assistant Professor

Primary Appointment:

Neurobiology

Location:

HSFI Rm 280F (through February 2026); HSFIII Rm 6180

Education and Training

  • 2010-2014 University of Maryland, College Park, BS, Biological Sciences
  • 2010-2014 University of Maryland, College Park, BS, Computer Science
  • 2014-2019 University of California, San Francisco, PhD, Biomedical Sciences
  • 2019-2025 Stanford University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurobiology

Biosketch

The Aery Jones lab dissects how the hippocampal circuit can flexibly perform distinct computations to support spatial memory and how these computations degrade in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more about our lab and research at aeryjoneslab.github.io.

Research/Clinical Keywords

spatial navigation, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, neurodegeneration, aging, Alzheimer's disease, GABAergic interneurons, in vivo electrophysiology, learning and memory

Highlighted Publications

Full publication list

NCBI MyBibliography

Aery Jones, E.A., Low, I.I.C., Cho, F.S., Giocomo, L.M. (2024, July). Entorhinal cortex represents task-relevant remote locations independent of CA1. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2024.07.23.604815 

Aery Jones, E.A. (2023, February). Chronic Recoverable Neuropixels in Mice. protocols.io doi:10.17504/protocols.io.e6nvwjo87lmk/v2

Aery Jones, E. A., Rao, A., Zilberter, M., Djukic, B., Bant, J. S., Gillespie, A. K., Koutsodendris, N., Nelson, M., Yoon, S. Y., Huang, K., Yuan, H., Gill, T. M., Huang, Y., & Frank, L. M. (2021, December) Dentate Gyrus and CA3 GABAergic Interneurons Bidirectionally Modulate Signatures of Internal and External Drive to CA1. Cell Reports 37(13), 110159.

Jones, E. A., Gillespie, A. K., Yoon, S. Y., Frank, L. M., Huang, Y. (2019, November). Early Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripple Deficits Predict Later Learning and Memory Impairments in an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model. Cell Reports 29(8), 2123-2133.e4.

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