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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Period and Pattern in the Embryo
DTSTART:20171031T121500
DTEND:20171031T131500
DTSTAMP:20260929T053336Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Andrew Oates\, Segmentation Timing and Dynamics Laborato
 ry\, EPFL School of Life Sciences\, Interschool Institute of Bioengineerin
 g\nAbstract:\nThe segmentation clock is a multi-cellular patterning system
  of genetic oscillators thought to control the rhythmic and sequential for
 mation of the vertebrate embryo's body segments. Individual oscillating ce
 lls are synchronized with their neighbors\, forming a coherent wave patter
 n of gene expression. How these wave patterns arise and how they are regul
 ated during embryogenesis is not clear. I will describe recent progress in
  understanding the behavior of individual cells as they slow their oscilla
 tions and differentiate during segmentation\, and discuss how this gives r
 ise to the tissue-level wave patterns.\n\nBio:\nAndrew Oates received his 
 Ph.D. at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the University of Me
 lbourne. His postdoctoral time was at Princeton University and the Univers
 ity of Chicago in the lab of Robert Ho\, where his studies on the segmenta
 tion clock in zebrafish began in 1998. In 2003 he moved to Germany and sta
 rted 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 gro
 up to the MRC-National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill in Lond
 on. From April 2015\, he became a member of the Francis Crick Institute in
  London. In September 2016\, he joined EPFL and his group is in the proces
 s of moving to Lausanne.
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