Jeffrey Jones is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Rusty Gage at the Salk Institute. As a member of the lab leadership team he serves as a mentor to technicians and students. Jones is a dedicated neuroscientist who started his career investigating Alzheimer's disease as a technician during his undergraduate studies. During his thesis, Jones gained expertise in human stem cell differentiation techniques and generated several subtypes of human neurons and astrocytes. As a postdoctoral scholar, his interests remain rooted in human cognitive aging at the molecular level. Jones approaches biological problems with a wide range of tools including expertise in stem cell culture, genetic engineering, bioinformatics, neural development and cellular metabolism.