E. Yvonne Jones facts for kids
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Yvonne Jones
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Edith Yvonne Jones
1960 (age 64–65) Oswestry, England
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| Education | Llanfyllin High School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
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| Fields | Structural biology |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Structural and dynamic studies on biological macromolecules (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Miller David Chilton Phillips |
| Notable students | Doryen Bubeck |
Edith Yvonne Jones (born in 1960) is a British scientist. She studies the tiny parts of living things, like cells. She works at the University of Oxford. There, she leads a research group that looks at how cells communicate. She is also a Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
Early Life and Education
Yvonne Jones was born in 1960 in Oswestry, England. She went to Llanfyllin High School in Wales. Later, she studied Physics at the University of Oxford. She earned her first degree in 1982. In 1985, she received her PhD from Oxford. Her PhD research focused on the structure of large biological molecules.
Research and Discoveries
After her PhD, Yvonne Jones did more research. She worked at the University of Edinburgh. There, she used special experiments to study collagen. Collagen is a protein found in our bodies.
She then returned to Oxford. She learned about protein crystallography. This is a way to find out the exact shape of proteins. She helped discover the structure of a protein called tumour necrosis factor (TNF). This was an important discovery.
Yvonne Jones also helped with research on HIV/AIDS. She studied a protein called reverse transcriptase. This research helped in developing medicines to fight viruses.
In 1991, Yvonne Jones started her own research lab. It was at the University of Oxford. She received funding from the Royal Society. In 1999, she helped create the Division of Structural Biology (STRUBI) at Oxford. As of 2017, she was a joint head of STRUBI. She was also the Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.
Awards and Honors
Yvonne Jones has received many important awards for her work.
- In 2003, she became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
- In 2002, she won the Descartes Prize from the European Union.
- In 2007, she became a member of EMBO. This is an organization for top life scientists.
- In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a very high honor for scientists in the UK.
- In 2022, she was also elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
