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Dr. Jimena Berni is a Principal Research Fellow in Clinical Neuroscience at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex. She holds a prestigious Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship and leads an independent research group focused on understanding the genetic basis of neural circuit development and behavior.
Dr. Berni completed her education at the University of Buenos Aires, where she earned both her undergraduate degree and PhD. She established her independent laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 2015 as a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow before joining Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2019.
Her research program investigates how Hox genes orchestrate the diversification of motor circuits during nervous system development. Using advanced Drosophila neurogenetics techniques combined with behavioral analysis, Dr. Berni's work bridges developmental biology and neuroscience to understand how genetic programs shape neural circuit assembly and function. She employs a multidisciplinary approach, collaborating with mathematicians, physicists, and ecologists to model complex behavioral patterns and neuronal activity.
Dr. Berni's publication record demonstrates two decades of consistent research in Drosophila neural development, with recent work expanding into computational approaches for analyzing neuromotor patterns and exploring clinical applications. Her research shows increasing interdisciplinary collaboration and has been published in high-impact journals including Science, eLife, and Current Biology.
- Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Dr. Berni actively contributes to medical education at BSMS, delivering lectures in Endocrinology and teaching a Student Selected Complement on "Neurodevelopment in Health and Disease." She has supervised numerous Masters students and Individual Research Projects. Her research is currently supported by BBSRC funding for "The role of Hox genes in the specification of circuits controlling specialised behaviours" (2023-2026) and previous Wellcome Trust grants.
Dr. Berni leads a multidisciplinary research team that combines expertise in Drosophila genetics, behavioral analysis, and computational modeling to investigate how genetic programs shape neural circuit formation and function. Her laboratory employs state-of-the-art techniques to study the development of animal behavior through the lens of neural circuit evolution and specialization.
