Dr Jason D. Turner BSc (Hons) PhD

Dr Jason Turner

Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
Rheumatology Research Group
Institute of Inflammation and Ageing
University of Birmingham
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Birmingham
B15 2WB

Dr. Turner is a postdoctoral research fellow working in the lab of Prof. Andrew Filer. He currently provides bioinformatic support for the lab along with performing wet lab experiments generating RNA-sequencing datasets and validating findings from this work. His work spans several autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren’s disease, and systemic lupus erythematosus.

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Qualifications

The Carpentries Instructor Training Program, 2020.

PhD by Research in Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham, 2017.

BSc (Hons) Biological science, Plymouth University (Class I), 2012.

Biography

Dr. Turner completed his undergraduate studies in Biological Sciences at Plymouth University in 2011. He began working as a research technician in the lab of Prof. Filer before beginning his doctoral studies which he successfully completed in 2017. Since then, he has continued to work as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Filer lab whilst developing his own research interests.

Teaching

• BSc Biomedical Science Year 3: Immunity and Inflammatory Disease
• ICS Rheumatology & Orthopaedics
• R Software Carpentry

Research

  • Stratification of immune disorders using process modules common/private to disorders
  • Stromal immunology, in particular the role of stromal subsets in the healthy immune response and disease and how stromal responses and subsets vary across tissues
  • Transcriptomics data analysis, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing and leading-edge developments, and working in the R programming language
  • Platforms and methods for easing access and interpretation of big data by colleagues without computational ability
  • Merging transcriptomic data with wet-lab validation and spatial assignment of transcriptomic data

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Baruah, P, Marshall, JL, Nefla, M, Pucino, V, Adams, H, Turner, JD, Gilbert, S, Powell, E, Neag, G, Monksfield, P, Irving, RM, Croft, AP, Dumitriu, IE & Buckley, CD 2024, 'Functional analysis of fibroblasts and macrophages in head and neck paragangliomas', Frontiers in Endocrinology, vol. 15, 1397839. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2024.1397839

Martin, CS, Crastin, A, Sagmeister, MS, Kalirai, MS, Turner, JD, MacDonald, L, Kurowska-Stolarska, M, Scheel-Toellner, D, Taylor, AE, Gilligan, LC, Storbeck, K, Price, M, Gorvin, CM, Filer, A, Mahida, R, Clark, AR, Jones, SW, Raza, K, Hewison, M & Hardy, RS 2024, 'Inflammation Dynamically Regulates Steroid Hormone Metabolism and Action within Macrophages in Rheumatoid Arthritis  ', Journal of Autoimmunity, vol. 147, 103263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2024.103263

Neag, G, Lewis, J, Turner, J, Manning, J, Dean, I, Finlay, M, Poologasundarampillai, G, Woods, J, Arham Sahu, M, Khan, KA, Begum, J, McGettrick, H, Bellantuono, I, Heath, V, Jones, S, Buckley, C, Bicknell, R & Naylor, A 2024, 'Type-H endothelial cell protein Clec14a orchestrates osteoblast activity during trabecular bone formation and patterning', Communications Biology, vol. 7, 1296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06971-3

Korsunsky, I, Wei, K, Pohin, M, Kim, EY, Barone, F, Major, T, Taylor, E, Ravindran, R, Kemble, S, Watts, GFM, Jonsson, AH, Jeong, Y, Athar, H, Windell, D, Kang, JB, Friedrich, M, Turner, J, Nayar, S, Fisher, BA, Raza, K, Marshall, JL, Croft, AP, Tamura, T, Sholl, LM, Vivero, M, Rosas, IO, Bowman, SJ, Coles, M, Frei, AP, Lassen, K, Filer, A, Powrie, F, Buckley, CD, Brenner, MB & Raychaudhuri, S 2022, 'Cross-tissue, single-cell stromal atlas identifies shared pathological fibroblast phenotypes in four chronic inflammatory diseases', Med, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 481-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2022.05.002

Pucino, V, Turner, JD, Nayar, S, Kollert, F, Rauz, S, Richards, A, Higham, J, Poveda-Gallego, A, Bowman, SJ, Barone, F & Fisher, BA 2022, 'Sjögren's and non-Sjögren's sicca share a similar symptom burden but with a distinct symptom-associated proteomic signature', RMD Open, vol. 8, no. 1, e002119. https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2021-002119

Friščić, J, Böttcher, M, Reinwald, C, Bruns, H, Writh, B, Popp, S-J, Walker, KI, Ackermann, JA, Chen, X, Turner, J, Zhu, H, Seyler, L, Euler, M, Kirchner, P, Krüger, R, Ekici, AB, Major, T, Aust, O, Weidner, D, Fischer, A, Andes, FT, Stanojevic, Z, Trajkovic, V, Hermann, M, Korb-Pap, A, Wank, I, Hess, A, Winter, J, Wixler, V, Distler, J, Steiner, G, Kiener, HP, Frey, B, Kling, L, Raza, K, Frey, S, Kleyer, A, Bäuerle, T, Grüneboom, A, Steffen, U, Krönke, G, Croft, A, Filer, A, Köhl, J, Klein, K, Buckley, CD, Schett, G, Mougiakakos, D & Hoffmann, MH 2021, 'The complement system drives local inflammatory tissue priming by metabolic reprogramming of articular fibroblasts', Immunity, vol. 2021, no. 00, pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2021.03.003

Korsunsky, I, Wei, K, Pohin, M, Kim, E, Turner, J, Nayar, S, Fisher, B, Raza, K, Friedrich, M, Marshall, J, Croft, A, Coles, M, Frei, A, Filer, A, Barone, F, Lassen, K, Powrie, F, Buckley, C, Brenner, M & Raychaudhuri, S 2020, 'A Single Cell Stromal Atlas Identifies Conserved Fibroblast Phenotypes Expanded in the Inflamed Synovium, Lung, Intestine, and Salivary Gland', Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Carr, H, Sahbudin, I, Maybury, M, Dyke, B, Turner, J, Gullick, N, Raza, K, Scheel-Toellner, D & Filer, A 2020, 'Development of a Tool to Assess Synovial Tissue Infiltrates and Derive Histological Pathotype in Inflammatory Arthritis: Relationship to Clinical and Ultrasound Variables', Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Wei, K, Korsunsky, I, Marshall, JL, Gao, A, Watts, GFM, Major, T, Croft, AP, Watts, J, Blazar, PE, Lange, JK, Thornhill, TS, Filer, A, Raza, K, Donlin, LT, Accelerating Medicines Partnership Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (AMP RA/SLE) Consortium, Siebel, CW, Buckley, CD, Raychaudhuri, S & Brenner, MB 2020, 'Notch signalling drives synovial fibroblast identity and arthritis pathology', Nature, vol. 582, no. 7811, pp. 259–264. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2222-z

Accelerating Medicines Partnership Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (AMP RA/SLE) Consortium, Turner, J, Filer, A, Buckley, C & Fan, Z 2019, 'Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry', Nature Immunology, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 928-942. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-019-0378-1

Croft, AP, Campos, J, Jansen, K, Turner, JD, Marshall, J, Attar, M, Savary, L, Wehmeyer, C, Naylor, AJ, Kemble, S, Begum, J, Dürholz, K, Perlman, H, Barone, F, Mcgettrick, HM, Fearon, DT, Wei, K, Raychaudhuri, S, Korsunsky, I, Brenner, MB, Coles, M, Sansom, SN, Filer, A & Buckley, CD 2019, 'Distinct fibroblast subsets drive inflammation and damage in arthritis', Nature, vol. 570, no. 7760, pp. 246–251 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1263-7

Letter

Kollert, F, Pucino, V, Nayar, S, Turner, J, Rauz, S, Richards, A, Higham, J, Poveda Gallego, A, Brown, R, Bates, T, Bowman, S, Barone, F & Fisher, B 2022, 'History of tonsillectomy is associated with glandular inflammation in Sjögren's disease', Rheumatology (Oxford), vol. 61, no. 7, keac096, pp. E168-E170. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac096

Other contribution

Ghumra, A (ed.), Acil, N, Barker, J, Baziotis, C, Beltran Hernandez, A, Dai, D, Deakin, J, Dettmer, S, Fentham, D, Fontrodona-Bach, A, Hart-Villamil, R, Jenkins, B, Jia, X, Jones, AM, Morris, A, Murakami, A, Seymour, R, Da Silva Xavier, G, Smith, C, Tashev, S, Turner, J, Uche, EO, Xia, X & Zhong, J 2023, Birmingham Environment for Academic Research: Case studies volume 3. University of Birmingham. https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004303

Preprint

Nayar, S, Turner, JD, Asam, S, Pugh, M, Colfrancesco, S, Berardicurti, O, Flint, J, Teodosio, A, Iannizzotto, V, Gardner, DH, van, RJ, Consortium, RFN, Smith, C & Fennell, E 2022 'A cellular and spatial map of salivary glands at single cell resolution reveals the functional basis of tertiary lymphoid structure formation in Sjogren’s syndrome' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.03.514908

Review article

Carr, HL, Turner, JD, Major, T, Scheel-Toellner, D & Filer, A 2020, 'New developments in transcriptomic analysis of synovial tissue', Frontiers in Medicine, vol. 7, 21. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00021

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