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Research Interests and Accomplishments
Dr. Marcus Jones is a staff scientist within the Infectious Disease group where he specializes in a wide variety of gene expression studies. Dr. Jones is interested in the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the role of small RNAs in the regulation of bacterial gene expression and bacterial in vivo gene expression. Dr. Jones has performed comparative genomic hybridization studies on a number of bacterial species, and is characterizing mechanisms for antibiotic resistance in several pathogenic bacteria. Dr. Jones has also taken the responsibility for managing a research contract from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the Department of Energy for characterizing the transcriptome of Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica.
Dr. Jones received his bachelor's degree at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, LA in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2005 studying in the laboratory of Dr. Martin J. Blaser in The Sackler Institute at New York University School of Medicine, where he characterized the role of quorum-sensing in the regulation of virulence gene expression in Bacillus anthracis. Dr. Jones did his post-doctoral training at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) from 2005-2006 in the laboratory of Dr. Scott N. Peterson in the Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center (PFGRC) prior to joining the JCVI.
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Arpaia, N., Godec, J., et al.
TLR Signaling Is Required for Salmonella typhimurium Virulence
Cell. 2011 Mar 04; 144(5): 675-88.[more]
Boyle-Vavra, S., Jones, M., et al.
Comparative Genome Sequencing of an Isogenic Pair of USA800 Clinical MRSA Isolates Obtained Before and After Daptomycin Treatment Failure
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Feb 22;[more]
Festa, R. A., Jones, M. B., et al.
A novel copper-responsive regulon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mol Microbiol. 2011 Jan 11; 79(1): 133-48.[more]
Jones, M. B., Peterson, S. N., et al.
Role of luxS in Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence factor expression
Virulence. 2010 Oct 27; 1(2): 72-83.[more]
Safi, H., Fleischmann, R. D., et al.
Allelic exchange and mutant selection demonstrate that common clinical embCAB gene mutations only modestly increase resistance to ethambutol in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Oct 12;[more]
Pandya, G. A., Holmes, M. H., et al.
Whole genome single nucleotide polymorphism based phylogeny of Francisella tularensis and its application to the development of a strain typing assay
BMC Microbiol. 2009 Oct 07; 9(1): 213.[more]
Perry, J. A., Jones, M. B., et al.
Peptide alarmone signalling triggers an auto-active bacteriocin necessary for genetic competence
Mol Microbiol. 2009 Apr 14;[more]
Colangeli, R., Helb, D., et al.
Transcriptional regulation of multi-drug tolerance and antibiotic-induced responses by the histone-like protein Lsr2 in M. tuberculosis
PLoS Pathog. 2007 Jun 01; 3(6): e87.[more]
Cirz, R. T., Jones, M. B., et al.
Complete and SOS-mediated response of Staphylococcus aureus to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin
J Bacteriol. 2007 Jan 01; 189(2): 531-9.[more]