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Dr Gavin Clowry

Reader in Neuroanatomy

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5981
  • Address: Biosciences Institute
    Centre for Transformative Neuroscience
    The Medical School
    Framlington Place
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE2 4HH
Background

I am active in both research and teaching; supervising and conducting research into the development, plasticity and repair of the nervous system, and teaching anatomy, neuroanatomy and stem cell biology to both post-graduates and undergraduates. 

  •  MA University of Oxford
  •  DPhil University of Oxford
  •  Fellow of the Anatomical Society

 Area of expertise: Neuroscience, Anatomy, Developmental Biology

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Research

Research Interests

Development, plasticity, neurodegeneration and repair of the nervous system. Molecular neuroanatomical approaches including neural tracing, immunohistochemistry and gene expression profiling.

Current Work

1) Development of the early fetal human forebrain including role of subplate, and interneuron specification.

2) Studying expression and function of neurodevelopmental disease susceptibility genes in the early fetal human forebrain. 

3) Exploring cortical interneuron function, neuroinflammation and mitochondrial deficits in mouse transgenic models of dementia.

4) Use of organotypic slice cultures of human fetal and adult brain tissue, with gene knock-down strategies.

Postgraduate Supervision

Currently co-supervising five PhD students; Anna Dimtsi, Lauren O'Neil, Natalie Wucherer, Hosain Barati and Martha Davies-Branch. Five PhD students have recently successfully completed their studies: Maznah Alhesain, Bethany Dennis and Matthew Drummond in 2025, Anastasia Dimitrou, Ibtisam Al-Musawi in 2024. In total I have supervised or co-supervised 23 PhD students to completion. 

Recent Esteem Indicators

Plenary lecturer, Croatian Congress of Neuroscience, Zagreb 2025

Co-organiser symposium on "Human Cerebral Cortex Development III",  part of the Summer Meeting of the Anatomical Society in Oxford, 2025

Member of the Epilepsy Research Institute neurodevelopment task force (2024-)

Named Top Scholar 2024 in prior 5 years; ranked #13 in the world for speciality “Cerebral Cortex” by ScholarGPS.

Awarded the Symington Memorial Prize in Anatomy (2022)

Elected Council Member (2015-2023) Research Officer (2016-2023) Research Advisory Committee member (2015-present) and Fellow (2019) of the Anatomical Society.

Member of the ERA-NET NEURON peer review panel for Transnational research projects on neurodevelopmental disorders 2021.

Research Topic Editor, Frontiers in Neurology, "Improving outcomes in cerebral palsy with early interventions; new translational approaches"  now published as an ebook.

Guest Editor of the Journal Of Anatomy symposium issues 2019 "Human Cerebral Cortex Development and 2010: "Development of the Human Neocortex". Will guest edit new symposium issue scheduled for publication 2026.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Anatomy, Translational Neuroscience.

Associate Editor, BMC Neuroscience 2013-2021; Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 2023-

Ad hoc reviewer for many journals including Science, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, and Journal of Neuroscience, (see )

and for grant giving bodies including the MRC, BBSRC, Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, Croatian Science Foundation, Action Medical Research, and the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA).

Our publication 'Ip BK, Wappler I, Peters H, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ, Bayatti N (2010) Investigating gradients of gene expression involved in early human cortical development. Journal of Anatomy 217: 300-311' was awarded a prize for best paper in the Journal of Anatomy 2010.

Funding

Currently co-PI on grant from MNDA, Co-holder of PhD studentships from the Alzheimer's Society and the Epilepsy Research Institute.

Previously funding includes co-PI on substantial programme grants from the Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust/MRC and Wellcome Trust/EPSRC. Have been co-awarded an MRC/CASE studentship and various grants and studentships from the Anatomical Society, Children's Foundation, 缅北禁地 Hospitals Special Trustees, MNDA, Kavli Foundation, and Alkor Biotech for an industrial/academic collaborative project.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

  • MBBS Stage 2. Neurobiology (lecturer)
  • BDS Stage 1. Neurobiology, (lecturer and practicals)
  • Biomedical Sciences stage 2. Neuroanatomy, Neural circuits (lecturer)
  • Biomedical Sciences stage 2. Human anatomy (lecturer)
  • Biomedical Sciences stage 3. Research project supervision.
  • Pharmacology stage 3. Neuroanatomy lecture, practical and tutorial for neuropharmacology. 
  • Physiology stage 3. Neuroanatomy practical.
  • Psychology stage 3. Neuroanatomy practical.
  • Genetics stage 3. Developmental genetics, neurobiology (lecturer)
  • External examiner for Edinburgh University, BSc Hons/BMedSci, Anatomy and Development, 2023-.


Postgraduate Teaching

  • PhD/MPhil supervision
  • PhD/MPhil progress assessment panels
  • MRes deputy degree programme director (Chair of Examiners) and MRes Neuroscience theme lead 
  • MRes neuroanatomy (practical)
  • MRes Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells (Lecturer)
  • MRes Mechanisms in Genetic Disease: from Genotype to Phenotype (Lecturer)
  • MRes research project supervision




 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Alhesain M, Alzu'bi A, Sankar N, Smith C, Kerwin J, Laws R, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ. . Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 2025, 19, 1530236.
    • Al-Musawi I, Dennis BH, Clowry GJ, LeBeau FE. . Frontiers in Dementia 2024, 3, 1404841.
    • McLeod F, McDermott E, Mak S, Walsh D, Turnbull M, LeBeau F, Jackson A, Trevellyan AJ, Clowry GJ. . Frontiers in Neuroscience 2024, 18, 1287228.
    • Alhesain M, Ronan H, LeBeau FEN, Clowry GJ. . Frontiers in Neuroscience 2023, 17, 1249973.
    • Zaaimi B, Turnbull M, Hazra A, Wang Y, Gandara C, McLeod F, McDermott EE, Escobedo-Cousin E, Idil AS, Bailey RG, Tardio S, Patel A, Ponon N, Gausden J, Walsh D, Hutchings F, Kaiser M, Cunningham MO, Clowry GJ, LeBeau FEN, Constandinou TG, Baker SN, Donaldson N, Degenaar P, O'Neill A, Trevelyan AJ, Jackson A. . Nature Biomedical Engineering 2023, 7, 559-575.
    • McLeod F, Dimtsi A, Marshall AC, Lewis-Smith DJ, Thomas R, Clowry GJ, Trevelyan AJ. . Brain 2023, 146(3), 850-857.
    • Alzu'bi A, Sankar N, Crosier M, Kerwin J, Clowry GJ. . Journal of Anatomy 2022, 241(1), 33-41.
    • Alzu'Bi A, Al Zoubi MS, Abdelhady GT, Al-Trad B, Omari S, Abualarjah MI, El-Huneidi W, Alzu'Bi DR, Bani-Issa JM, Clowry GJ. . European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences 2022, 26(5), 1586-1593.
    • Ben Awadh A, Clark J, Clowry G, Keenan ID. . Anatomical Sciences Education 2022, 15(1), 127-142.
    • Hayman DJ, Modebadze T, Charlton S, Cheung K, Soul J, Lin H, Hao Y, Miles CG, Tsompani D, Jackson RM, Briggs MD, Piróg KA, Clark IM, Barter MJ, Clowry GJ, LeBeau FEN, Young DA. . Scientific Reports 2021, 11(1), 10452.
    • Tweedy C, Kindred N, Curry J, Williams C, Taylor J-P, Atkinson P, Randall F, Erskine D, Morris CM, Reeve AK, Clowry GJ, LeBeau FEN. . Neurobiology of Disease 2021, 149, 105226.
    • Bauer R, Clowry GJ, Kaiser M. . Cerebral cortex 2021, 31(7), 3237-3253.
    • Alzu'bi A, Middleham W, Shoaib M, Clowry GJ. . Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 2020, 13, 72.
    • Alzu'bi A, Clowry GJ. . Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 2020, 14, 61.
    • Ramsbottom SA, Thelwall PE, Wood KM, Clowry GJ, Devlin LA, Silbermann F, Spiewak HL, Shril S, Molinari E, Hildebrandt F, Gunay-Aygun M, Saunier S, Cordell HJ, Sayer JA, Miles CG. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020, 117(2), 1113-1118.
    • Powell L, Barroso-Gil M, Clowry GJ, Devlin LA, Molinari E, Ramsbottom SA, Miles CG, Sayer JA. . BMC Developmental Biology 2020, 20(1), 26.
    • Devlin LA, Ramsbottom SA, Overman LM, Lisgo SN, Clowry G, Molinari E, Powell L, Miles CG, Sayer JA. . PLoS ONE 2020, 15(1), e0221914.
    • Alzu'bi A, Homann-Ludiye J, Bourne JA, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2019, 29(4), 1706-1718.
    • Molnar Z, Clowry GJ, Sestan N, Alzubi A, Bakken T, Hevner RF, Huppi PS, Kostovic I, Rakic P, Anton ES, Edwards D, Garcez P, Hoerder-Suavedissen A, Kriegstein A. . Journal of Anatomy 2019, 235(3), 432-451.
    • Alzu'bi A, Clowry GJ. . Journal of Anatomy 2019, 235(3), 555-568.
    • Robson E, Tweedy C, Manzanza N, Taylor J-P, Atkinson P, Randall F, Reeve A, Clowry GJ, LeBeau FEN. . Neuroscience 2018, 377, 161-173.
    • Basuodan R, Basu A, Clowry G. . Journal of Anatomy 2018, 233(2), 155-166.
    • Alzu'bi A, Lindsay SJ, Harkin LF, McIntyre J, Lisgo SN, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2017, 27(10), 4971-4987.
    • Harkin LF, Lindsay SJ, Xu Y, Alzu'bi A, Ferrera A, Gullon EA, James OG, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2017, 27(1), 216-232.
    • Alzubi A, Lindsay S, Kerwin J, Looi SJ, Khalil F, Clowry GJ. . Brain Structure and Function 2017, 222(5), 2309–2328.
    • Danilenko M, Dalgliesh C, Pagliarini V, Naro C, Ehrmann I, Feracci M, Kheirollahi-Chadegani M, Tyson-Capper A, Clowry GJ, Fort P, Dominguez C, Sette C, Elliott DJ. . Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 45(7), 4120–4130.
    • Sohal HS, Clowry GJ, Jackson A, O'Neill A, Baker SN. . PLoS One 2016, 11(10), e0165606.
    • Lindsay SJ, Xu YB, Lisgo SN, Harkin LF, Copp AJ, Gerrelli D, Clowry GJ, Talbot A, Keogh MJ, Coxhead J, Santibanez-Koref M, Chinnery PF. . Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 2016, 10, 86.
    • Harkin LF, Gerrelli D, Diaz DCG, Santos C, Alzu'bi A, Austin CA, Clowry GJ. . Journal of Anatomy 2016, 228(3), 452-463.
    • Ehrmann I, Gazzara MR, Pagliarini V, Dalgliesh C, Kheirollahi-Chadegani M, Xu Y, Cesari E, Danilenko M, Maclennan M, Lowdon K, Vogel T, Keskivali-Bond P, Wells S, Cater H, Fort P, Sanibanez-Koref M, Middei S, Sette C, Clowry GJ, Barash Y, Cunningham MO, Elliott DJ. . Cell Reports 2016, 17(12), 3269-3280.
    • Al-Jaberi N, Lindsay S, Sarma S, Bayatti N, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2015, 25(3), 631-645.
    • Basu A, Clowry G. . Frontiers in Neurology 2015, 6, 24.
    • Sohal HS, Jackson A, Jackson R, Clowry GJ, Vassilevski K, O'Neill A, Baker SN. . Frontiers in Neuroengineering 2014, 7, 10.
    • Simon A, Traub RD, Vladimirov N, Jenkins A, Nicholson C, Whittaker RG, Schofield I, Clowry GJ, Cunningham MO, Whittington MA. . European Journal of Neuroscience 2014, 39(1), 46-60.
    • Ehrmann I, Dalgliesh C, Liu Y, Danilenko M, Crosier M, Overman L, Arthur HM, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ, Venables JP, Fort P, Elliott DJ. . PLoS Genetics 2013, 9(4), e1003474.
    • Ali H, Forraz N, McGuckin C, Jurga M, Lindsay S, Ip BK, Trevelyan A, Basford C, Habibollah S, Ahmad S, Clowry GJ, Bayatti N. . Stem Cell Reviews and Reports 2012, 8(1), 210-223.
    • Ip BK, Bayatti N, Howard NJ, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2011, 21(6), 1395-1407.
    • Chen A, Siow B, Blamire AM, Lako M, Clowry GJ. . Stem Cell Research 2010, 5(3), 255-266.
    • Wang WZ, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Oeschger FM, Bayatti N, Ip BK, Lindsay S, Supramaniam V, Srinivasan L, Rutherford M, Mollgard K, Clowry GJ, Molnar Z. . Journal of Anatomy 2010, 217(4), 368-380.
    • Galley S, Clowry GJ. . Translational Neuroscience 2010, 1(1), 16-23.
    • Ip BK, Wappler I, Peters H, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ, Bayatti N. . Journal of Anatomy 2010, 217(4), 300-311.
    • Basu A, Graziadio S, Smith M, Clowry GJ, Cioni G, Eyre JA. . Annals of Neurology 2010, 67(1), 132-136.
    • Fisher T, Clowry GJ. . Neuroscience 2009, 161(3), 787-793.
    • Bayatti N, Sarma S, Shaw C, Eyre JA, Vouyiouklis DA, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ. . European Journal of Neuroscience 2008, 28(8), 1449-1456.
    • Bayatti N, Moss JA, Sun L, Ambrose P, Ward JFH, Lindsay S, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2008, 18(7), 1536-1548.
    • Chen A, Dimambro N, Clowry GJ. . Brain Research 2008, 1201, 187-195.
    • Eyre JA, Smith M, Dabydeen L, Clowry GJ, Petacchi E, Battini R, Guzzetta A, Cioni G. . Annals of Neurology 2007, 62(5), 493-503.
    • Clowry GJ, Walker L, Davies P. . Experimental Neurology 2006, 202(2), 456-469.
    • Clowry GJ, Moss JA, Clough RL. . Journal of Anatomy 2005, 207(4), 313-324.
    • Clowry GJ, Davies BM, Upile NS, Gibson CL, Bradley PM. . European Journal of Neuroscience 2004, 20(10), 2555-2566.
    • Clowry GJ, McHanwell S. . Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2004, 30(2), 148-160.
    • Gibson CL, Clowry GJ. . International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 2003, 21(4), 171-182.
    • McDonough SM, Clowry GJ, Miller S, Eyre JA. . Brain Research 2001, 899(1-2), 66-81.
    • Dobson CB, Villagra F, Clowry GJ, Smith M, Kenwrick S, Donnai D, Miller S, Eyre JA. . Brain 2001, 124(12), 2393-2406.
    • Clowry GJ, Flecknell PA. . Laboratory Animals 2000, 34(3), 260-264.
    • Gibson CL, Arnott GA, Clowry GJ. . Experimental Neurology 2000, 166(2), 422-434.
    • Gibson CL, Clowry GJ. . Experimental Neurology 2000, 170(2), 380-384.
    • Eyre JA, Miller S, Clowry GJ, Conway EA, Watts C. . Brain 2000, 123(1), 51-64.
    • Clowry GJ, Arnott GA, Clement-Jones M, Fallah Z, Gould S, Wright C. . Journal of Comparative Neurology 2000, 423(4), 727-735.
    • Gibson CL, Clowry GJ. . Developmental Brain Research 1999, 115(1), 93-96.
    • Fallah Z, Clowry GJ. . Experimental Neurology 1999, 156(1), 111-120.
    • Gibson CL, Clowry GJ. . NeuroReport 1999, 10(2), 231-235.
    • Fallah Z, Clowry GJ. . Developmental Neuroscience 1999, 21(1), 50-57.
    • Clowry GJ, Fallah Z, Arnott G. . Developmental Brain Research 1997, 102(2), 197-208.
    • Clowry GJ, McHanwell S. . Neuroscience Letters 1996, 215(3), 177-180.

  • Book Chapters

    • Molnar Z, Clowry G. . In: Hofman, M.A., Falk, D, ed. Progress in Brain Research: Evolution of the Primate Brain. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2012, pp.45-70.
    • Clowry G, Slawinska U. . In: Nogradi, A, ed. Transplantation of Neural Tissue into the Spinal Cord. Georgetown, Texas: Landes Bioscience, 2006, pp.24-51.

  • Notes

    • Clowry GJ. . Journal of Comparative Neurology 2024, 532(3), e25605.
    • Harkin LF, Lindsay SJ, Xu Y, Alzu'bi A, Ferrera A, Gullon EA, James OG, Clowry GJ. . Cerebral Cortex 2019, 29(4), 1705-1705.

  • Reviews

    • Clowry GJ, Alzu'bi A, Harkin LF, Sarma S, Kerwin J, Lindsay S. . Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 2018, 76, 3-14.
    • Clowry GJ. . Journal of Anatomy 2015, 227(4), 384-393.
    • Clowry GJ, Basuodan R, Chan F. . Frontiers in Neurology 2014, 5, 258.
    • Clowry GJ. . Language Sciences 2014, 46(Part B), 220-231.
    • Chen A, Clowry GJ. . Translational Neuroscience 2011, 2(3), 207-218.
    • Clowry G, Molnar Z, Rakic P. . Journal of Anatomy 2010, 217(4), 276-288.
    • Clowry GJ. . Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2007, 31(8), 1114-1124.