The Francis Crick Institute, London UK

Andrew Oates’ received his Ph.D. at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the University of Melbourne. 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. Since April 2015, he is a member of the Francis Crick Institute in London.