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Morgan Jones

@04mjone.bsky.social
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Structural biologist working to understand chromosome replication. Group leader at University of Oxford, Biochemistry

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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
After nearly 7 years, it’s time to move on from the LMB 😭 Huge thanks to Joe and all the fantastic members of the lab, as well as all the talented people I was lucky enough to work with. Really excited to be starting my own group at the Department of Biochemistry in Oxford. Wish me luck 🤞
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Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Read our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.15.725099v1 And a related preprint from @yeeles-lab.bsky.social out the same day: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.15.725364v1 3/3
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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Congrats to Jonas! Not satisfied with working only on replication, he’s bagged himself a paper on bacterial translation 🙃 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structure of the 30S translation initiation complex coupled to paused RNA polymerase and its potential for riboregulation - Nature Communications
Small regulatory RNAs can act on target mRNAs to control their translation and stability. Here, the authors present evidence that this riboregulation can potentially regulate by pairing to a target si...
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Fabai Wu @fabaiwu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Glad to share our paper out today @NatureEcoEvo: “Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #archaeasky
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Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3
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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I’m really excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award to start my own research group at Oxford University Biochemistry Department @BiochemOxford 🧬🎉
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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Great new work from the very talented Emma Fletcher (@Yeeles_Lab). Biochemistry, and a touch of cryoEM, reveal why the DNA replication machinery needs a dedicated leading strand PCNA clamp loader. 🧬🧪🥼🔬🧑‍🔬 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Competition for the nascent leading strand shapes the requirements for PCNA loading in the replisome | The EMBO Journal
imageimageCtf18-RFC is a dedicated leading-strand replication clamp loader, with RFC unable to fulfil this role. This study provides a mechanistic basis as to why this is the case and reveals unique f...
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