Doctor Mark Jones

Doctor Mark Jones

SENIOR LECTURER,
Science (SoSH)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Macquarie University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Science (SoSH)

Contact

Email:m.r.jones@uws.edu.au
Extension:1444
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Location:K12.53
Hawkesbury
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Biography

Dr Jones conducted his PhD in Sydney, with CSIRO, from 1988 to the end of 1990. Following 2 years international experience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Institute of Child Health & Human Development) in Washington DC and 2 years at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), in La Jolla, California (USA), Dr Jones subsequently returned to CSIRO, as a Senior Research Scientist/Project Leader. As a research manager Dr Jones participated in 2 CRC's and secured >$4M of industry funds for cross-institutional research programs, supported an AusIndustry Development project and established a laboratory with innovative Postgraduate and Postdoctoral training programs. The commercial nature of Dr Jones' research activities resulted in Intellectual Property, including National & International Patents. Dr Jones joined UWS in the winter of 2001 taking on the challenge of developing advanced Blended and Problem Based Learning in the Biochemistry disciplines, including Molecular Medicine and Cellular Biotechnology. Dr Jones' laboratory has successfully supported over 50 graduate and postgraduate students as well as six Postdoctoral Fellows to date. More recently Dr Jones, as Chief Investigator, was charged with securing $2M of funding from the Federal Government that enabled the development of the UWS Confocal Bio-Imaging Facility.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Jones.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Andrews, L., Jones, M., Digman, M. and Gratton, E. (2013), 'Spectral phasor analysis of Pyronin Y labeled RNA microenvironments in living cells', Biomedical Optics Express, 7.
  • Torno, K., Wright, B., Jones, M., Digman, M., Gratton, E. and Phillips, M. (2013), 'Real-time analysis of metabolic activity within Lactobacillus acidophilus by phasor fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of NADH', Current Microbiology, 3.
  • Wu, M., Murphy, P., O'Doherty, P., Mieruszynski, S., Jones, M., Kersaitis, C., Rogers, P., Bailey, T. and Higgins, V. (2012), 'Delineation of the molecular mechanism for disulfide stress-induced aluminium toxicity', BioMetals, 9.
  • Wright, B., Andrews, L., Jones, M., Stringari, C., Digman, M. and Gratton, E. (2012), 'Phasor-FLIM analysis of NADH distribution and localization in the nucleus of live progenitor myoblast cells', Microscopy Research and Technique, 6.
  • Wright, B., Andrews, L., Markham, J., Jones, M., Stringari, C., Digman, M. and Gratton, E. (2012), 'NADH distribution in live progenitor stem cells by phasor-fluorescence lifetime image microscopy', Biophysical Journal, 3.
  • Holford, P. and Jones, M. (2012), 'Transcriptome analysis of the differential effects of 1-MCP on the development of chilling injury in peaches harvested at early and late maturities', Acta Horticulturae, 7.
  • Jones, M. and Holford, P. (2012), 'Investigations into the molecular and physiological factors influencing low temperature breakdown in stonefruit', Acta Horticulturae, 6.

Research

Previous Projects

Title:Development of the Confocal Bio-Imaging System
Years:2006-06-14 - 2008-12-31
ID:P0015233
UWS Researchers:Mark Jones
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Immunomodulation by gut bacteria and gastrointestinal health
Years:2003-09-15 - 2005-01-31
ID:P0013736
UWS Researchers:Kasipathy Kailasapathy and Mark Jones
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Application of new genomic tools for the improvement of quality and cool storage life of stone fruit
Years:2006-11-24 - 2009-02-28
ID:P0015329
UWS Researchers:Barry Mcglasson, Paul Holford and Mark Jones
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • University of Padova Italy
Title:CBBR Jurox scholarships
Years:2001-12-10 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0012394
UWS Researchers:Mark Jones
Funding:
  • Jurox Pty Ltd
Title:Branched degradable polymers for anti-cancer drugs delivery
Years:2011-11-09 - 2012-11-08
ID:P00020491
UWS Researchers:Patrice Castignolles, Janice Aldrich-Wright and Mark Jones
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Doctor Jones is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:The Mitochondrial Behaviour in B Lymphocyte L1210 in Reaction to Biofilm Formed by E.coli
Field of Research:
Title:Understanding the Intracellular Dynamics of Endogenous Ribonucleic Acid Species in Living Cells
Field of Research:BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Title:Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Analysis of Molecular Intgeractions Between Intracellular Symbionts and Progenitor Cells
Field of Research:
Title:Developing a Model to Modulate Silenced and Active Endogenous Genes through Gene Therapy
Field of Research:

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