Andrew Charles Oates
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Fields of expertise
Biography
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.
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Life Sciences Engineering
PhD Programs
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
PhD Students
Bercowsky Rama Arianne, Loureiro Casalderrey María Cristina, Ozelci Ece, Perez Franco Pablo, Venzin Olivier François,Past EPFL PhD Students
Sommer Raphael Christopher ,Courses
Cell and developmental biology for engineers
Program: MINEUR
Scientific project design in cell and developmental biology
Program: Section of Life Sciences Engineering