Dr Ana Jones came to work for The Faraday Institute in 2023 when she joined the Youth and Schools Programme as the Resource Development Assistant. Currently, Ana is involved in both the Youth and Schools and the Faraday Churches programmes. As the Research and Communications Manager for the Youth and Schools Programme, she supports the main strands of the programme’s work – workshops for children and young people; training for teachers and influencers; and book and resource production – while doing educational research to inform this work and contribute to wider discussions about science, faith and education. As the Church Engagement Manager, Ana works alongside Dr Ruth Bancewicz to support churches engage with science.
Ana was born in Portugal where she studied Developmental and Evolutionary Biology and became a Christian at university. She then came to the UK, where she did a Master’s in Neuroscience at King’s College London. For the next two years Ana worked as a Research Technician for the University of Cambridge at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Following that she did a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at The University of Sheffield. Over those years of research Ana studied the early development of the zebrafish brain and inner ear, and how the immune system fights infectious diseases. Seeing how bodies work in such a complex, amazing and clever way makes her admire God and His creation even more. She thoroughly enjoys exploring challenging science-faith questions and sharing her passion for science and her love for God with others. Ana is also part of the Cambridge Women Bible Conference Committee and a member of Christ Church South Cambs.
Publications
Jones AA, Diamantopoulou E, Baxendale S, Whitfield TT (2022) Presence of chondroitin sulphate and requirement for heparan sulphate biosynthesis in the developing zebrafish inner ear. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.959624
Mendonca T, Jones AA, Pozo JM, Baxendale S, Whitfield TT, et al. (2021) Origami: Single-cell 3D shape dynamics oriented along the apico-basal axis of folding epithelia from fluorescence microscopy data. PLOS Computational Biology 17(11): e1009063. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009063
Roca FJ, Whitworth LJ, Redmond S, Jones AA, Ramakrishnan L. TNF Induces Pathogenic Programmed Macrophage Necrosis in Tuberculosis through a Mitochondrial-Lysosomal-Endoplasmic Reticulum Circuit. Cell. 2019 Sep;178(6):1344-1361.e11. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.004. PMID: 31474371; PMCID: PMC6736209.
