Susan Jones | |
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Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of York University College London |
Occupation | Computational biologist |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | G proteins transducing receptor-mediated inhibition of the M-type K('+) current in rat cultured sympathetic neurones (1995) |
Susan Jones is a British computational biologist [1] and bioinformatics group leader [2] at the James Hutton Institute. Her work is specially focused on plant pathogen diagnostics, particularly virus diagnostics, using large datasets of RNA-Seq data. She also works on functional genomics, transcription regulation, protein-protein and protein-nucleic-acid interactions. [2] , [3]
In 1990, she received her Bachelor of Science in Biology [2] from the University of York.[ citation needed ]
In 1995, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics/ [2] Biochemistry from University College London.[ citation needed ]
She began her scientific career as a research fellow at University College London, Cancer Research UK and EMBL-EBI.
She went on to hold bioinformatics lecturer and bioinformatics senior lecturer positions at the University of Sussex. [3]
From 2011 to 2020, Jones was a senior scientist in computational biology at the James Hutton Institute [4] in Dundee, United Kingdom. Since 2020, she is the bioinformatics group leader there. [2]
Jones has over 60 publications. [5] Some of them have been cited over 3000 times each. [6]
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