Sue Jones (computational biologist)
Susan Jones is a British computational biologist 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.,
Biography
Education
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.
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.
From 2011 to 2020, Jones was a senior scientist in computational biology at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, United Kingdom. Since 2020, she is the bioinformatics group leader there.