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Eric Jones
Postdoctoral Scholar
Bagley 411, Department of Chemistry
University Of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195


Education:
 Postdoc, Sep. 2008-present, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Supervisor: Prof. Thomas G. Spiro
 Postdoc, May 2006-Aug. 2008, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA Supervisors: Drs. Colette A. Sacksteder and Thomas C. Squier
 Ph.D. (biophysics), May 2006, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Supervisor: Prof. Witold K. Surewicz Dissertation title: “The Prion Protein Variant PrP23-144 as a Minimal In Vitro Model of Prion-based Inheritance”
 B.S. (polymer science), May 2000, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH (magna cum laude)

Support, Honors, and Awards:
Systems Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2007-08)
National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Training Fellow (grant HL007653, 2002-04)
Richard O. Recknagel Award for Outstanding Research, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University (2001)

Publications:

Papers:
Jones, E.M., Squier, T.C., Sacksteder, C.A., An altered mode of calcium coordination in methionine-oxidized calmodulin. Biophys. J. 95, 5268-5280 (2008)
Surewicz, W.K., Jones, E.M., Apetri, A.C., The emerging principles of mammalian prion propagation and transmissibility barriers: Insight from studies in vitro. Acc. Chem. Res. 39, 654-662 (2006)
Jones, E.M., Surewicz, K., Surewicz, W. K., Role of N-terminal familial mutations in prion protein fibrillization and prion amyloid propagation in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 8190-8196 (2006)
Jones, E. M., Surewicz, W. K., Fibril conformation as the basis of species- and strain-dependent seeding specificity of mammalian prion amyloids. Cell 121, 63-72 (2005)
Srinivasan, R., Jones, E. M., Liu, K., Ghiso, J., Marchant, R. E., Zagorski, M. G., pH-dependent amyloid and protofibril formation by the ABri peptide of familial British dementia. J. Mol. Biol. 333, 1003-1023 (2003)
Kundu, B., Maiti, N. R., Jones, E. M., Surewicz, K. A., Vanik, D. L., Surewicz, W. K., Nucleation-dependent conformational conversion of the Y145Stop variant of human prion protein: Structural clues for prion propagation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 12069-12074 (2003)