Andrew Charles Oates

developmental biology, embryology, patterning, oscillators, synchronisation, biological timing, segmentation, morphegenesis, gene regulatory networks, intercellular signalling, single cell imaging, microscopy, image processing, physics of biology, mathematical modelling, collective processes

Short Bio

After an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide with Honours in Robert Saint’s lab, Andrew Oates received his Ph.D. at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the University of Melbourne in the lab of Andrew Wilks. His postdoctoral time was at Princeton University and the University of Chicago in the lab of Robert Ho, where his studies on the segmentation clock in zebrafish began in 1998. In 2003 he moved to Germany and started his group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. In 2012 he accepted a position at University College London as Professor of vertebrate developmental genetics and moved his group to the MRC-National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill in London. From April 2015, he became a member of the Francis Crick Institute in London. In September 2016, he joined École polytechnique fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland as a Professor, where he is the head of the Timing, Oscillation, Patterns Laboratory. From April 2018 he served as Director of the Institute of Bioengineering, and from January 2021 became the Dean of the School of Life Sciences.

The Timing, Oscillation, Patterns Laboratory is composed of biologists, engineers, and physicists using molecular genetics, quantitative imaging, and theoretical analysis to study a population of coupled genetic oscillators in the vertebrate embryo termed the segmentation clock. This system drives the rhythmic, sequential, and precise formation of embryonic body segments, exhibiting rich spatial and temporal phenomena spanning from molecular to tissue scales.

Enseignement & Phd

Enseignement

Life Sciences Engineering

Programmes doctoraux

Doctoral Program in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Doctoral Program in Computational and Quantitative Biology

Doctoral Program in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Doctoral Program in Molecular Life Sciences

Doctorants

Bercowsky Rama Arianne, Loureiro Casalderrey María Cristina, Ozelci Ece, Perez Franco Pablo, Venzin Olivier François,

A dirigé les thèses EPFL de

Sommer Raphael Christopher ,

Cours

Cell and developmental biology for engineers

Les étudiants vont apprendre des fondements de la biologie cellulaire et du développement, avec un accent sur les systèmes modèles animaux et les approches quantitatives.

Scientific project design in cell and developmental biology

Les étudiants sont conduits à comprendre des concepts choisis de biologie cellulaire et du développement, principalement au travers de l'analyse de papiers scientifiques, et ensuite d'appliquer ces concepts à la préparation et à l'exécution d'un projet de groupe dans le laboratoire Gönczy ou Oates.

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