My scientific interests are based around meta-research and immune cell biology, particularly how immune cells are capable of performing wide ranging functions and how they adapt to different environmental cues. During my masters degree, I investigated the presence of fibroblast subtypes and the role of PGE2 signalling in fibrosis. I completed my PhD in the labs of Iwan Evans & Martin Zeidler at the University of Sheffield investigating the existence of macrophage subtypes in Drosophila. Following a brief post-doc in Cambridge, I moved to London, investigating the role of neutrophils and T-cells in ischaemia reperfusion injury (IRI) in the Voisin lab. I’m currently the Associate Director at ASAPbio.
In addition, I have active interests in science communication, metaresearch and research culture. I host the Preprints in Motion podcast where we highlight ECRs and the benefits of preprinting and founded the UK & EU postdoc community to provide a place for postdocs to support one-another and share resources. I have also featured on international radio stations (BBC Radio 4, ORF & German National radio) to communicate the importance of preprints in addition to having written for outlets such as The Scientist, The Conversation and the British Society for Cell Biology.
I am a member of IGDORE and I also sit on the scientific advisory boards for Europe PMC, eiRxiv and the Africa Reproducibility Network. I left the bench behind in 2023 and now work to further the adoption and use of preprints in the biosciences as the Associate Director at ASAPbio. In 2024, I founded Rippling Ideas.
I am always happy to collaborate on projects of interest & talk all things preprint – just get in touch.
KDM6B-dependent chromatin remodelling underpins effective virus-specific CD8+ T cell differentiation
Jonny Coates
Insights from a survey-based analysis of the academic job market
Jonny Coates et al.
bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology
Jonny Coates, Rob Hynds
Building customizable auto-luminescent luciferase-based reporters in plants
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Plants with self-sustained luminescence
Martin Balcerowicz, Jonny Coates
Hif-1alpha stabilisation is protective against infection in a zebrafish model of comorbidity
Jonny Coates
Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Proteins are essential for B cell development
Jonny Coates
Hypoxia induces transcriptional and translational downregulation of the type I interferon (IFN) pathway in multiple cancer cell types
Jonny Coates
Co-Stimulation–Induced AP-1 Activity is Required for Chromatin Opening During T Cell Activation
Jonny Coates
The effect of bioRxiv preprints on citations and altmetrics
Jonny Coates, Maiko Kitaoka
Pulmonary natural killer cells control neutrophil intravascular motility and response to acute inflammation
Jonny Coates
Integrated Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Novel Activation-Induced Metabolic Networks in Human T cells
Jonny Coates
