About
Professor Malcolm Jones (BSc Hons PhD Qld) is Professor of Parasitology in the School of Veterinary Sciences and Honorary Group Leader of the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory at QIMRBerghofer Medical Research Institute. Professor Jones has worked in fields of medical and molecular helminthology for over 40 years. Since completing his PhD, Jones has worked at QIMRBerghofer, Macquarie University, Queensland Health and the University of Queensland. He was previously laboratory head at QIMR, before moving to his current full-time academic position at the University of Queensland. A long-time collaborator of the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Professor Jones returned to QIMR in 2023 to lead that lab after the sad passing of its founder Professor Don McManus. Malcolm is President of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine. He is Past President and a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, and a life member of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and of the University of Queensland Veterinary Students Association. He co-chaired the XIX International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, held in Brisbane, September 2016. Professor Jones has authored over 240 scientific publications in the fields of parasitology, microscopy and virology. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal One Health and previously was Deputy Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Research Skills
Professor Jones has special interests in applications of advanced microscopy methods to investigating complex biological questions and has experience with many analytical tools including electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, laser microdissection microscopy and X-ray fluorescence microscopy.
Area of Interest
His research interest lie in the biology and control of helminth parasites of humans. His major research interests lie in investigations of schistosomiasis, food-borne trematodiasis and echinococcosis. Human schistosomes are a major scourge of tropical and developing nations. Currently, over 260 million people are infected with schistosomes, and the diseases caused by these parasites lead to chronic morbidity and death. Professor Jones investigates novel control strategies for schistosomiasis, including vaccines, parasite biology and host interactions and better diagnostic methods.