E. Yvonne Jones

Yvonne Jones
FRS FMedSci
Yvonne Jones at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born Edith Yvonne Jones
1960 (age 57–58)
Oswestry, England
Education Llanfyllin High School[1]
Alma mater University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Structural biology[3]
Institutions University of Edinburgh
University of Oxford
Thesis Structural and dynamic studies on biological macromolecules (1985)
Doctoral advisor Andrew Miller
David Chilton Phillips[4]
Website www.strubi.ox.ac.uk/research/e-yvonne-jones

(Edith) Yvonne Jones FRS FMedSci (born 1960)[1] is director of the Cancer Research UK Receptor Structure Research Group at the University of Oxford[5][6][3][7] and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.[8] She is widely known for her research on the molecular biology of cell surface receptors and signalling complexes.[9]

Early life and education

Jones was born in 1960 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.[1] She was educated at Llanfyllin High School in Wales.[1] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics at the University of Oxford in 1979[10] as an undergraduate student of Jesus College, Oxford.[8] She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford in 1985 for structural and dynamic studies of biological macromolecules supervised by Andrew Miller and David Chilton Phillips.[4]

Research and career

During postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh Jones performed neutron scattering experiments at the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble to investigate the properties of collagen. She subsequently returned to Oxford to learn protein crystallography, and determined one of the first structures of a cytokine, tumour necrosis factor (TNF) with David Stuart.[11] During her research, Jones contributed to the Medical Research Council (MRC) HIV/AIDS programs investigating the structure of reverse transcriptase for the development of antiviral drugs.[12] In 1991 Yvonne started her own research laboratory at the University of Oxford funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) until 2001.[1] In 1999 Yvonne co-founded the Division of Structural Biology (STRUBI) at Oxford. As of 2017, she is joint head of STRUBI and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.[13][14]

Awards and honours

Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[6] She was also elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2003, awarded the Descartes Prize by the European Union in 2002 and awarded EMBO Membership in 2007.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anon (2017). Jones, Prof. (Edith) Yvonne. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.289289. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Anon (2007). "EMBO People: E. Yvonne Jones". people.embo.org. Heidelberg. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01.
  3. 1 2 E. Yvonne Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. 1 2 Jones, Edith Yvonne (1985). Structural and dynamic studies on biological macromolecules. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863529476. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.371551.
  5. ↑ Anon (2017). "Professor E. Yvonne Jones FRS FMedSci - Nuffield Department of Medicine". ndm.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  6. 1 2 Anon (2017). "Professor Yvonne Jones FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2017-05-05. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  7. ↑ E. Yvonne Jones publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. 1 2 3 Anon (2017). "Yvonne Jones Biography at Jesus College, Oxford". jesus.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-04-13.
  9. ↑ "The Division of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford (STRUBI)". www.strubi.ox.ac.uk.
  10. ↑ Yvonne Jones Entry at ORCID
  11. ↑ Jones, E. Y.; Stuart, D. I.; Walker, N. P. C. (1989). "Structure of tumour necrosis factor". Nature. 338 (6212): 225–228. doi:10.1038/338225a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  12. ↑ Ren, Jingshan; Esnouf, Robert; Garman, Elspeth; Somers, Donald; Ross, Carl; Kirby, Ian; Keeling, James; Darby, Graham; Jones, Yvonne; Stuart, David; Stammers, David (1995). "High resolution structures of HIV-1 RT from four RT–inhibitor complexes". Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 2 (4): 293–302. doi:10.1038/nsb0495-293. ISSN 1545-9993.
  13. ↑ "E. Yvonne Jones: University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division". medsci.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  14. ↑ E. Yvonne Jones publications from Europe PubMed Central

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