Curriculum vitae Thomas Alwyn Jones (050414)

 

Present Work Address

Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology,

Biomedical Centre, Box596,

S-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden

 

Tel: -46-18-4714982

Fax: -46-18-536971

Fax private: -46-18-360454

E-mail: Alwyn@xray.bmc.uu.se

Home page: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/alwyn

 

Born 30 August 1947

 

Parents Mr. and Mrs. D. Jones, 10 Bedlinog Terrace, Bedlinog, Glamorgan, Wales.

 

Marrital Status

Wife, Sherry Lynn Mowbray, married 22-Sep-1988

Son, Daniel Mowbray, born 2-Sep-1990

Daughter, Elanor Mowbray Jones, born 19-Oct-1994

 

Primary Education Bedlinog Primary School

 

Secondary Education

Lewis School for Boys, Pengam, Mons

General Certificate of Eduction (G.C.E.) in 8 subjects at 0-Level (English Language, English Literature, French, Latin, Mathematics, Physics,Biology, Chemistry) in 1964.

Awarded 3 G.C.E. A-levels (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry) in l966; grades: 3 A's.

 

College Education

Bachelor of Science BSc. in Physics, Grade 1, l969 at Department of Physics, Kings  College, University of London.

Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. in Biophysics, l973 at Kings College, Department of Biophysics, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2.

Docent in Molecular Biology, l982 at Uppsala University, Sweden.

 

Employment

Royal Society Exchange Fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, BRD. May l973 - January l974.

Science Research Council Research Fellow at Kings College, Biophysics Department, London, UK. February l974 - February l976.

Garching Instruments at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, BRD. June l976 - December l976.

Systems Analyst at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, BRD. l977.

Wiss. Assistant with Prof. Robert Huber at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, BRD. l978.

Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden, l979 - 1983.

Research position from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) at the Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden, l983 - 1987.

Research Professor, Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) 1987-1994

Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1994 - present

 

Prizes & Honours

1. Layton Research Prize l969 awarded to a final year student in the Physics

Department of King's College, London.

2. The Svedberg Prize l986 awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

National Committee for Biochemistry and the Swedish Biochemistry Society.

3. Norblad-Ekstrand Medal 1992 awarded by the Swedish Chemical Society.

4. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1992.

5. Göran Gustafssons Prize in Biology, 1993.

6. EMBO fellow, 1993.

7. Foreign member Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2000.

8. Aminoff Prize 2003 awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

9. Patterson Prize of the American Crystallographic Association 2005

 

Scientific Committee Membership

1.  Swedish Natural Science Research Council Priority Committee in Chemistry, 1986-92.

2. European Association for Crystallography in Molecular Biology, l986-90.

3. Science Advisory Committee (SAC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 1992-97. Vice-chairman SAC 1995-97

4. Chairman of the beam allocation pannel at the EMBL outstation at Hamburg, 1994-97

5. Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning General Bioscience expert group member, ~1994-6.

6. Member of the Bioinformatics Advisory Committee of EMBL, 1996-2000

7. Programme Director, Structural Biology Network of the Strategic Research Foundation, 1996-2004

8. Science Advisory Committee (SAC) of European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, 1996-1998

9. Member beam allocation panel ESRF, 1997-1998

10. SAC Wallenberg Wood Biotechnology Centre, KTH, Stockholm, 1997-2001.

11. Chairman EBI’s Macromolecular Structure Database advisory committee, 1998-2001

12. Docent Committee of the Technical and Natural Sciences Faculty, Uppsala University, 1999-present

13. Chairman Scientific Advisory Board, MRC Oxford Protein Production Facility, University of Oxford, 2002-present

 

Editorial Board Membership

1. Proteins:  Structure, Function and Genetics,  l986-97

2. Current Biology; Macromolecular Structures, 1990-97

3. Acta Crystallographica A & D 1992-2002

4. Structure, 1993-

 

Invited Lectures: If I include students and collaborators, there are 128 (but I do not keep a very accurate count). There appear to be 28 in the period requested for the publication list (1998-2005)

 

Publications 139, plus manuals.

 

PhD Student Examinations

Per Kraulis 1988

Juha Rouvinen 1990

Christine Divne 1994

Jonas Uppenberg 1994

Jin-yu Zou 1995 (with S.L. Mowbray)

Neel Chauduri 1998 (with S.L. Mowbray)

Jill Sigrell 1998 (with S.L. Mowbray)

Martin Hallberg 2002

Mats Sandgren 2003