Sue Jones (computational biologist)

Susan Jones
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]}

Biography

Education

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 ]}

Career

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]

Selected publications

Jones has over 60 publications. ^[5] Some of them have been cited over 3000 times each. ^[6]

• Jones, Susan; Thornton, Janet M. (12 September 1997). "Analysis of protein-protein interaction sites using surface patches" . Journal of Molecular Biology. 272 (1): 121–132. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1234. ISSN   0022-2836. PMID   9299342.
• Jones, Susan; Thornton, Janet M. (1 January 1995). "Protein-protein interactions: A review of protein dimer structures". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 63 (1): 31–65. doi: 10.1016/0079-6107(94)00008-W . ISSN   0079-6107. PMID   7746868.
• Jones, S.; Thornton, J. M. (9 January 1996). "Principles of protein-protein interactions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93 (1): 13–20. Bibcode:1996PNAS...93...13J. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.1.13 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   40170 . PMID   8552589.

References

1. "High-Performance Computing for Innovative Science: Clusters, communication and caramel wafers". SEFARI. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
2. "Sue Jones - James Hutton Institute - Information and Computational Science - BSc Biology - PhD Bioinformatics". ResearchGate. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
3. "Sue Jones". The James Hutton Institute. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
4. "Susan Jones". ORCiD - Connecting Research and Researchers. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
5. "Susan Jones". Loop. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
6. "Sue Jones - Computational Biologist - The James Hutton Institute". Google Scholar. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

External links

• Sue Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar