Associate Professor Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones graduated from the University of Sydney in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science(Dental) (Hons 1) and in 1991 with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (Hons1).

Her PhD was awarded in 1998 in the field of Oral Pathology, in the area of tumour suppressor gene function and oral tumourigenesis.

Alexandra is a restorative dentist with 25 years experience, which includes ongoing practice ownership.

Training includes fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in restorative dentistry and many years postdoctoral research experience as a molecular biologist in tumour immunobiology, at the Skin and Cancer Research Institute and Melanoma Unit, RPAH, Sydney.

Alex is a member of the Australian Dental Association and a Fellow of the International College of Dentists.

Current research interests at CSU include a NSW Health Funded project with Dr Peter Anderson (School of Biomedical Science) into the microbiome that supports oral heath in rural populations.

Teaching portfolio includes experience as a teacher for undergraduate dental and medical students, in the fields of oral health, general pathology and oral pathology and supervision of post graduate and doctoral students.

The main teaching role at CSU is teaching dental clinical practice to the undergraduate 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year dental students.

Alexandra is an examiner for the College of Dental Surgeons for the Finals Fellowship examinations and the Membership Examinations, which are both post graduate dental qualifications.

• The basal layer in human squamous tumors harbors more UVA than UVB fingerprint mutations: a role for UVA in human skin carcinogenesis
  NS Agar, GM Halliday, RSC Barnetson, HN Ananthaswamy, M Wheeler, ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of ..., 101 (14), 4954-4959, 2004
• Epithelial p53 gene expression and mutational analysis, combined with growth fraction assessment, in oral lichen planus
  M Schifter, AM Jones, DM Walker
  Journal of oral pathology & medicine 27 (7), 318-324, 1998
• UV‐A Fingerprint Mutations in Human Skin Cancer
  GM Halliday, NS Agar, RSC Barnetson, HN Ananthaswamy, AM Jones
  Photochemistry and photobiology 81 (1), 3-8, 2005
• BRM and BRG1 subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex are downregulated upon progression of benign skin lesions into invasive tumours
  VL Bock, JG Lyons, XXJ Huang, AM Jones, LA McDonald, RA Scolyer, ...
  British Journal of Dermatology 164 (6), 1221-1227, 2011
• A novel technique for the examination of skin biopsies by laser capture microdissection
  NS Agar, GM Halliday, RSC Barnetson, AM Jones
  Journal of cutaneous pathology 30 (4), 265-270, 2003
• A general review of the p53 gene and oral squamous cell carcinoma.
  A Jones
  Annals of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons 14, 66-69, 1998
• Lead uptake in motor axons
  R Pamphlett, A Bayliss
  Muscle & nerve 15 (5), 620-625, 1992 8 1992
• Analysis of the amplification refractory mutation allele‐specific polymerase chain reaction system for sensitive and specific detection of p53 mutations in DNA
  EO Low, AM Jones, JR Gibbins, DM Walker
  The Journal of pathology 190 (4), 512-515, 2000
• The effect of nerve crush and botulinum toxin on lead uptake in motor axons
  R Pamphlett, A Bayliss
  Acta neuropathologica 84 (1), 89-93, 1992
• The tumour suppressor gene BRM is downregulated in human skin cancer
  GM Halliday, JG Lyons, VL Bock, FJ Moloney, PW Sou, Y Zhou, AM Jones, ...
  JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY 130, S23-S23, 2010
• Role of different wavebands in biological mechanisms leading to photocarcinogenesis
  GM Halliday, D Damian, Y Renwick, T Poon, N Agar, A Jones, ...
  Program & Abstracts of the 3rd Asian and Oceanian Conference on Photobiology, 2006
• The UVA waveband in sunlight contributes to immunosuppression and gene mutation in humans
  GM Halliday, NS Agar, T Poon, RS Barnetson, HN Ananthaswamy, ...
  JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY 123 (6), A111-A111, 2004
• A sensitive method for the in situ analysis of p53 mutations.
  E Low, A Jones, DM Walker, JR Gibbins
  JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH 78 (5), 951-951, 1999
• Oral epithelium: p53 mutations related to tobacco and alcohol exposure.
  A Jones, DM Walker, JR Gibbins
  JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH 77 (5), 1130-1130, 1998
• p53 and PCNA expression in the assessment of the malignant potential of oral lichen planus.
  M Schifter, A Jones, M Walker
  JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH 77 (5), 1130-1130, 1998
• ARMS-PCR: assessment of sensitivity for in-situ detection of p53 mutations.
  E Low, A Jones, DM Walker, JR Gibbins
  JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH 77 (5), 1130-1130, 1998