Jeff obtained his Ph.D. in 2015 in the lab of Dr. Douglas McMahon at Vanderbilt University where his research focused on the bidirectional relationship between the molecular and electrical rhythms in the brain’s biological clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). After a brief postdoc with Dr. Luis de Lecea at Stanford University to learn in vivo imaging, Jeff joined the lab of Dr. Erik Herzog at Washington University in St. Louis in 2016, where he studied the inputs to and outputs from the SCN that together generate circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology. In 2021, Jeff started his lab in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M.
Jeff Jones
Principal Investigator
Papers
Inputs and outputs of the mammalian circadian clock
Development of circadian clock functions
Optogenetic methods for the study of circadian rhythms
SCN VIP neurons are essential for normal light-mediated resetting of the circadian system
Entrainment of circadian rhythms depends on firing rates and neuropeptide release of VIP SCN neurons
Tau-independent Phase Analysis: A novel method for accurately determining phase shifts
VTA dopaminergic neurons regulate ethologically relevant sleep–wake behaviors
The core clock gene Per1 phases molecular and electrical circadian rhythms in SCN neurons
Hypocretins, neural systems, physiology, and psychiatric disorders
Manipulating circadian clock neuron firing rate resets molecular circadian rhythms and behavior