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Morgan Jones
@04mjone.bsky.social
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Structural biologist working to understand DNA replication at the MRC-LMB
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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 1d
An enormous thanks to @wellcometrust and everyone who’s helped along the way

📢 PhD position open now 🎓– apply here 👉
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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 1d
From autumn 2026, we’ll be exploring how transcription–replication conflicts impact genome stability using cryo-EM, biochemistry, and single-molecule methods 🔬
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Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social · 1d
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 · Mar 19
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....
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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