Jonathan Jones
Project Leader
Contact details
Email: jonathan.jones@sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk
Research interests
A senior scientist at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich using molecular and genetic approaches to study disease resistance in plants.
Received his Ph.d from Cambridge University in 1980, under the direction of G Dover and R B Flavell, and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard. Head of Sainsbury Laboratory 1994-7, 2003- present, and Professor at University of East Anglia 1997- . He has been editor of Plant Cell and Genome Biology.
International Society of Plant Molecular Biology board member 1995-8; Plant Journal advisory board; 1995-8 editor of Plant Cell July; 1998 -2004 Current Opinion in Plant Biology (COPB) editorial board; 1997- present invited editor for COPB Plant/Microbe Interaction Issue; 1998 editor of Genome Biology 2001-2004 reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals
Selected Publications
van den Burg HA, Tsitsigiannis DI, Rowland O, Lo J, Rallapalli G, Maclean D, Takken FL, Jones JD. (2008) The F-Box Protein ACRE189/ACIF1 regulates cell death and defense responses activated during pathogen recognition in tobacco and tomato. Plant Cell, 20:697-719
Sohn KH, Lei R, Nemri A, Jones JD. (2007) The downy mildew effector proteins ATR1 and ATR13 promote disease susceptibility in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 19:4077-90.
Robert-Seilaniantz A, Navarro L, Bari R, and Jones JDG (2007) Pathological hormone imbalances. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 10:372-379J
Justin O. Borevitz, Samuel P. Hazen, Todd P. Michael, Geoffrey P. Morris, Ivan R. Baxter, Tina T. Hu,Huaming Chen, Jonathan D. Werner, Magnus Nordborg, David E. Salt, Steve A. Kay, Joanne Chory, Detlef Weigel, Jonathan D. G. Jones, and Joseph R. Ecker (2007) Genome-wide patterns of single-feature polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana. PNAS July 17, 2007 vol. 104 no. 29 12057-12062.
Colwyn M. Thomas, Jonathan D. G. Jones (2007) Molecular analysis of agrobacterium t-dna integration in tomato reveals a role for left border sequence homology in most integration events. Mol Genet Genomics 10.1007/s00438-007-0259-4.
Delphine Chinchilla, Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek, Birgit Kemmerling, Thorsten Nu¨rnberger, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Georg Felix & Thomas Boller (2007) A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor fls2 and bak1 initiates plant defence. Nature 448: 497-501.
Hofius D, Tsitsigiannis D I, Jones J D G, Mundy J.(2007) Inducible cell death in plant immunity. Semin Cancer Biol. 2007;17:166-87.
Jones JDG and Dangl JL. (2006) The plant immune system. Nature 444:323-9.
