E. Yvonne Jones

For the Canadian MP, see Yvonne Jones.

Yvonne Jones FRS FMedSci
Jones in 2017
Born	Edith Yvonne Jones 1960 (age 64–65) Oswestry, England
Education	Llanfyllin High School[1]
Alma mater	Jesus College, Oxford
Awards	Royal Society University Research Fellow (1991-2001)[1] Descartes Prize (2002)^[citation needed] EMBO Membership (2007)[2]
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 (born 1960)^[1] is a British molecular biologist who 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 Jesus College, Oxford in 1982.^[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.^[10] 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.^[11] 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^[update], she is joint head of STRUBI and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.^[12][13]

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,^{[citation needed]} awarded the Descartes Prize by the European Union in 2002^{[citation needed]} and awarded EMBO Membership in 2007.^[8] She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2022.^[14]

References

1. Anon (2017). "Jones, Prof. (Edith) Yvonne". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.289289. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Anon (2007). "EMBO People: E. Yvonne Jones". people.embo.org. Heidelberg. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017.
3. E. Yvonne Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. 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.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
5. Anon (2017). "Professor E. Yvonne Jones FRS FMedSci - Nuffield Department of Medicine". ndm.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
6. Anon (2017). "Professor Yvonne Jones FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. 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. Anon (2017). "Yvonne Jones Biography at Jesus College, Oxford". jesus.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017.
9. "The Division of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford (STRUBI)". www.strubi.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
10. Jones, E. Y.; Stuart, D. I.; Walker, N. P. C. (1989). "Structure of tumour necrosis factor". Nature. 338 (6212): 225–228. Bibcode:1989Natur.338..225J. doi:10.1038/338225a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 2922050. S2CID 4260148.
11. 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. PMID 7540934. S2CID 34618424.
12. "E. Yvonne Jones: University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division". medsci.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
13. E. Yvonne Jones publications from Europe PubMed Central
14. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Yvonne Jones". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.

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