ACS-SA 2025 Symposium

Lisa M. Jones grew up in Mt. Vernon, NY. She did her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Syracuse University and her PhD in Chemistry at Georgia State University. She did postdoctoral training in structural virology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and in MS-based protein footprinting at Washington University in St. Louis. She started her first faculty position at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 2012. In 2016, she moved to the University of Maryland Baltimore. In 2022, she moved to the University of California San Diego as the Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Dr. Jones’ research is focused on developing MS-based structural biology methods for studying complex model systems such as cells, spheroids, and C. elegans and using these methods to study protein conformations and interactions in their native cellular environment. She also has a passion for increasing diversity in STEM and participates in several outreach initiatives to achieve this. In 2019, she received the Biophysical Society Biopolymers in Vivo Subgroup Junior Faculty Award which recognized her success as a young investigator.