Yvonne Jones ( E. Yvonne Jones ; genus. 1960, Oswestry, England) - British biologist . Professor at the University of Oxford (since 1999), director of the receptor structure research group at (since 1999), member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Great Britain (2003) [1] and the Royal Society of London (2017) [2] . Awarded the EU Descartes Award (2002).
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Biography
Grew up on a family farm in Mid-Wales. She graduated from Oxford University (Bachelor of Physics, 1982). Switching to biology, I studied there for a doctoral degree - in the laboratory of molecular biophysics under the supervision of professors Andrew Miller and . In 1985 she received the degree of D.Phil. on molecular biophysics with the work of 'Structural and dynamic studies of biological macromolecules'. She was a postdoc in the same laboratory (1986-1991) and at the University of Edinburgh (1985-1986). Then she returned to Oxford, where she collaborated in particular with Professor , in 1991 as a university research fello of the Royal Society (it was him until 2001) at the Department of Biochemistry of Oxford opened her own research program. Since 2008, the head of structural biology, since 2010, deputy director of the . Member of EMBO (2007). Since 2013, member of .