Dr. Jones is Professor of Regulatory Biology at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.  She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California, Riverside, and was a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley and the NIH.   She was a Pew Trust Scholar from 1987-1991.   Dr. Jones investigates HIV transcriptional regulation in vitro, particularly the role of host cell transcription factors and the HIV- encoded Tat protein in the regulation of RNA initiation and elongation at the HIV-1 promoter. Dr. Jones’ research also addresses the role of chromatin in enhancing pausing and transcriptional attenuation by RNA polymerase II, and the effects of chromatin on trans-activation by Tat.

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