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Jonathan D.G. Jones, Ph.D. is Senior Scientist at Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK. Dr. Jones received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. After a 2 year postdoctoral research appointment with Dr. Ausubel on symbiotic nitrogen fixation, he joined Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc, in Oakland CA, where he made significant contributions to the transgenic use of maize transposons in plant molecular genetics. He also co-authored a dominant patent on the use of engineered chitinases for plant disease resistance. Since 1988, he has directed his own group in the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre, Norwich UK. His group is internationally recognized for current research on plant disease resistance and plant molecular genetics. Among other contributions in plant disease resistance, he has isolated leaf mould resistance genes from tomato, and downy mildew resistance genes from Arabidopsis. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. | 