Incoming Assistant Professor @ MIT Biology, Koch Institute, and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. Single-cell advisor to Vevo Therapeutics. Lineage tracing & cancer evolution. Website: thejoneslaboratory.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattjones.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattjones.bsky.social/post/3msr2tfogkk2dNew paper from my group at @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social, MIT IMES, and MIT Biology! I am thrilled to share that our paper describing scAmp, a new method for analyzing extrachromosomal DNA amplifications at single-cell resolution, has been published in @natcomms.nature.com. Thread below 👇10 Aug 2026 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:nfo5matk5nsvjug4vsecbyit/app.bsky.feed.post/3msr2tfogkk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattjones.bsky.social/post/3m6dlfmon3c2vJust about one more week to apply for our tenure-track opening in IMES at MIT! Come start your group in an outstanding community at MIT at the interface of medicine and engineering: faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/ https://faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/24 Nov 2025 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:nfo5matk5nsvjug4vsecbyit/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6dlfmon3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattjones.bsky.social/post/3m3pkvpwuts2lDelighted to share our new study in @natcellbio.nature.com showing that the unique epigenetic landscape of ecDNA can enable the oncogenic enhancer activation of transposable elements! This was a great collaboration with @katerinakraft.bsky.social and @sedonamurphy.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mwfbu4w4 https://tinyurl.com/mwfbu4w421 Oct 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:nfo5matk5nsvjug4vsecbyit/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pkvpwuts2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattjones.bsky.social/post/3lhukkt3sr22qDelighted to be presenting a webinar with Curio next Wed 2/19 on our recent work describing a spatially-resolved lineage-tracing technology and its application to the KP model of lung adenocarcinoma. Register here: hubs.ly/Q035NKqd0, and find our preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.21.619529v1 https://hubs.ly/Q035NKqd011 Feb 2025 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:nfo5matk5nsvjug4vsecbyit/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhukkt3sr22q