Alwyn Jones (biophysicist)

Alwyn Jones
Born August 30, 1947
Residence Sweden
Nationality Welsh
Fields structure validation, biophysics
Institutions Uppsala University
Alma mater King's College London
Thesis  (B.Sc. 1969; PhD 1973)
Known for Methods development for X-ray crystallography, such as interpretation of electron density maps
Notable awards
Website
xray.bmc.uu.se/alwyn

Thomas Alwyn Jones (born 30 August 1947) is a Welsh biophysicist and a professor at the Uppsala University in Sweden.[1]

Education

He was educated at King's College London, where he received his BSc and PhD degrees.

Career

He held various positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich from 1973 to 1979, and in Uppsala from 1979. Jones was a Research Professor employed by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council 1987-1994, and has been Professor of Structural Biology at the Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala, from 1994. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected in 1992) and a Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (elected in 2000). He is a recipient of the Gregori Aminoff Prize (2003), "for his pioneering development of methods to interpret electron density maps and to build models of biological macromolecules with the aid of computer graphics" and of the Lindo Patterson Award, 2005 (American Crystallographic Association).

Jones is most noted for development of widely used programs for fitting models into crystallographic electron density maps, first Frodo,[2] then its further developed version O[3] (see molecular graphics), and for involvement in structure validation.[3][4] He has solved a very large number of protein crystal structures and is listed as a depositor on 126 structures at the Protein Data Bank, especially emphasizing enzymes[5][6] and viruses.[7][8] Web of Science[9] credits him with over 29,000 citations, and Google Scholar with over 14,000 citations (since 1990) and an H-index of 58, including over 11,000 citations for O[3] and 1700 for Frodo.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, A. J.; Heu, T; Shaghasi, T; Benyamino, R; Jones, A; Friis, E. P.; Wilson, K. S.; Davies, G. J. (2012). "Structure of the catalytic core module of the Chaetomium thermophilum family GH6 cellobiohydrolase Cel6A". Acta Crystallographica D68 (8): 875–882. doi:10.1107/S0907444912016496.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jones TA (1978). "A Graphics Model Building and Refinement System for Macromolecules". Journal of Applied Crystallography 11: 268–272. doi:10.1107/S0021889878013308.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jones TA, Zou J-Y, Cowan SW, Kjeldgaard M (1991). "Improved methods for the building of protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models". Acta Crystallographica A47: 110–119. doi:10.1107/s0108767390010224.
  4. ↑ Kleywegt GJ Jones TA (1996). "Phi/Psi-chology: Ramachandran revisited". Structure 4 (12): 1395–1400. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00147-5. PMID 8994966.
  5. ↑ Cameron D, Olin B, Ridderström M, Mannervik B Jones TA (1997). "Crystal structure of human glyoxalase 1 - evidence for gene duplication and 3D swapping". EMBO Journal 16: 3386–3395. doi:10.1093/emboj/16.12.3386. PMC 1169964. PMID 9218781.
  6. ↑ Zou J, Hallberg BM, Bergfors T, Oesch F, Arand M, Mowbray SL, Jones TA (2000). "Structure of Aspergillus niger epoxide hydrolase at 1.8 Å resolution: implications for the structure and function of the mammalian microsomal class of epoxide hydrolases". Structure 8: 111–122. doi:10.1016/s0969-2126(00)00087-3.
  7. ↑ Jones TA, Liljas L (1984). "Structure of satellite tobacco necrosis virus after crystallographic refinement at 2.5 Å resolution". Journal of Molecular Biology 177: 735–767. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(84)90047-0.
  8. ↑ Jansson AM, Jakobsson E, Johansson P, Lantez V, Coutard B, de Lamballerie X, Unge T, Jones TA (2009). "Structure of the methyltransferase domain from the Modoc virus, a flavivirus with no known vector". Acta Crystallographica D65: 796–803. doi:10.1107/s0907444909017260.
  9. ↑ "Web of Science". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 3 July 2012.