Dr. James Jepson attained his degree from Imperial College (BSc, Biology) and his DPhil from Oxford University. He then undertook post-doctoral research in the US, first at Brown University (studying behavioural roles of RNA editing in Drosophila) and subsequently at Thomas Jefferson University (studying the genetic basis of circadian rhythms and sleep). He started his own laboratory at UCL Queen Square Institue of Neurology in 2014. Since then, his lab has published an array of high-profile studies of novel disease models (Cell Reports, Brain) and the neurogenetic basis of sleep in Drosophila (eLife, Current Biology, Scientific Reports). He was awarded a MRC New Investigator Award in 2017.