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Matt Jones
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Assistant Professor at @MITBiology @kochinstitute and @MIT_IMES. Previously NCI K99/R00 Fellow at @Stanford. Single-Cell advisor for @tahoe_ai.
Cambridge, MA
thejoneslaboratory.com
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Jun 18, 2025
    It's official - I am thrilled to share that I am joining @MITBiology, the @kochinstitute, and @MIT_IMES as an Assistant Professor this fall! We will be a hybrid lab combining new technologies and computation to study ecDNA and tumor evolution.
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    Jones Lab at MIT
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Jan 21, 2021
    Ecstatic to share that our recent study on the rates, routes, and drivers of cancer metastasis has been published in @ScienceMagazine today! A fantastic collaboration between @JswLab @YosefLab @BivonaLabUCSF. Link: bit.ly/391KVIZ
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    May 5, 2022
    Ecstatic to share our latest work studying tumor development with our CRISPR-based lineage tracer in a mouse model of Kras;p53-driven lung cancer! Honored to have co-led this with @dianyang1117, a stellar collaboration between @JswLab @YosefLab @LabJacks. tiny.cc/9cbruz
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Oct 13, 2021
    We're ecstatic to present our manuscript on recording the evolutionary dynamics in a mouse model of lung cancer with an evolving lineage tracer. Congrats to @dianyang1117 for co-leading and @JswLab @YosefLab @LabJacks for this joint effort. Biorxiv link: tinyurl.com/f43de4nw
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Oct 25, 2024
    I'm thrilled to share our new study of the spatial evolution of Kras;p53-driven mouse lung adenocarcinoma! It's been fantastic leading this with @dianyang1117 & @sundakao, and enjoying a long-standing collaboration with @JswLab @YosefLab & @insitubiology. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Jan 27, 2023
    Delighted to share our review on lineage-tracing technologies in cancer biology, now available in Annual Reviews of Cancer Biology! We cover exciting new technologies and applications, and offer a perspective on what's next. We hope you find it useful: shorturl.at/sDEJ8
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Sep 26, 2019
    Our manuscript describing Vision, a scalable framework for annotating scRNA-seq manifolds, is finally out in @NatureComms. A long effort with @YosefLab and @yimmieg -- check out the paper here:
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    Functional interpretation of single cell similarity maps
    Nature Communications - The increasing accessibility of single cell RNA sequencing demands tools that enable data visualization and interpretation. Here, the authors introduce Vision, a flexible...
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Nov 6, 2024
    Ecstatic to see our latest effort published in @Nature! It's been a privilege co-leading this project with @kinglhung, @ivywtl, and EJ. We combined single-cell genomics, imaging, and evolutionary modeling to find that cooperative ecDNA species are co-inherited in mitosis.
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    King L Hung
    @kinglhung
    Nov 6, 2024
    Cancer cells often harbor oncogenes outside chromosomes on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), which is unevenly inherited by dividing cells. Today we report in @Nature that collectives of ecDNAs are inherited together by dividing cancer cells. 1/ nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    May 31, 2021
    I'm excited to introduce a preprint describing TreeVAE, a project led by Khalil Ouardini, a fantastic Master's student who spent the past year interning with @_romain_lopez_ and myself in the @YosefLab. Here's the preprint: bit.ly/3i5aSw6
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Apr 15, 2020
    I'm ecstatic to introduce the published form of our joint effort between @JswLab and @YosefLab characterizing Cassiopeia, our tool for inferring phylogenies from CRISPR/Cas9-enabled lineage tracing data! See our manuscript now published in @GenomeBiology: bit.ly/2RGJA17
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Feb 16, 2024
    I am delighted to share my recent work, the product of an excellent collaboration with Kaiyuan Zhu and @Jens_Luebeck in the Bafna lab, that describes CoRAL: our tool for reconstructing focal amplifications, like ecDNA, from long-read data:
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    CoRAL accurately resolves extrachromosomal DNA genome structures with long-read sequencing
    Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is a central mechanism for focal oncogene amplification in cancer, occurring in approximately 15% of early stage cancers and 30% of late-stage cancers. EcDNAs drive tumor...
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Nov 20, 2024
    Exciting news! It's been a privilege to train in @HowardYChang's lab these past few years and I'm thrilled for the new opportunities that this brings for @Amgen as well as for the trainees in his group.
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    Jay Bradner, M.D.
    @jaybradner
    Nov 20, 2024
    Excited to welcome @HowardYChang to @Amgen as our new SVP for Research & CSO! A pioneering physician-scientist, Howard’s expertise in genetics, oncology, & inflammation will help us push the boundaries of discovery. We’re excited to embark on this journey together to redefine the
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Oct 10, 2019
    I'm excited to finally introduce Cassiopeia, a new algorithm for inferring phylogenies from CRISPR-based single-cell lineage tracing techs! We use new benchmarking data to show Cassiopeia's improved accuracy as well as suggest future tech design principles disq.us/t/3iv5nxk
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    Matt Jones
    @MattG_Jones
    Nov 18, 2024
    Thanks for organizing a great conference @CancerGrand, and it was an honor to represent Team eDyNAmiC!
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    Cancer Grand Challenges
    @CancerGrand
    Nov 18, 2024
    Replying to @CancerGrand
    We also had a few award winners! Congratulations to: 🔸@MattG_Jones (best talk, team eDyNAmiC) 🔸@Mia_Mardamshin (best poster, team PROMINENT) 🔸@PoojaVikraman (best poster, team SPECIFICANCER) Learn more about the Future Leaders programme: cancergrandchallenges.org/about/our-comm…
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