| Susan Jones | |
| Alma Mater: | University of York University College London |
| Thesis Title: | G proteins transducing receptor-mediated inhibition of the M-type K('+) current in rat cultured sympathetic neurones |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ |
| Thesis Year: | 1995 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Computational biologist |
Susan Jones is a British computational biologist[1] and bioinformatics group leader 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.,
In 1990, she received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of York.
In 1995, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics/ Biochemistry from University College London.
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.[2]
From 2011 to 2020, Jones was a senior scientist in computational biology at the James Hutton Institute[3] in Dundee, United Kingdom. Since 2020, she is the bioinformatics group leader there.[4]
Jones has over 60 publications.[5] Some of them have been cited over 3000 times each.[6]