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.