Publications de Andrew Charles Oates

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What are you synching about? Emerging complexity of Notch signaling in the segmentation clock

Andrew Charles Oates, Olivier François Venzin

The Segmentation clock is a population of cellular genetic oscillators, located in the posterior of the elongating vertebrate embryo, that governs the rhythmic and sequential segmentation of the body axis into somites. Somites are blocks of cells that give ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2020

Delta-Notch signalling in segmentation

Andrew Charles Oates

Modular body organization is found widely across multicellular organisms, and some of them form repetitive modular structures via the process of segmentation. It's vastly interesting to understand how these regularly repeated structures are robustly genera ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Reaction wavefront theory of notochord segment patterning

Andrew Charles Oates

The vertebrate axis is segmented into repetitive structures, the vertebrae. In fish, these segmented structures are thought to form from the paraxial mesoderm and the adjacent notochord. Recent work revealed an autonomous patterning mechanism in the zebraf ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Detection of mRNA by Whole Mount in situ Hybridization and DNA Extraction for Genotyping of Zebrafish Embryos

Andrew Charles Oates, Rachna Narayanan

In situ hybridization is used to visualize the spatial distribution of gene transcripts in tissues and in embryos, providing important information about disease and development. Current methods involve the use of complementary riboprobes incorporating non- ...

2019

Embryonic lateral inhibition as optical modes: An analytical framework for mesoscopic pattern formation

Andrew Charles Oates, Jose Negrete Jr

Cellular checkerboard patterns are observed at many stages of embryonic development. We study an analytically tractable model for lateral inhibition and show that the steady states are analogous to optical phonons at the Gamma point, which have the wave nu ...

2019

Waiting on the Fringe: cell autonomy and signaling delays in segmentation clocks

Andrew Charles Oates

The rhythmic and sequential segmentation of the vertebrate body axis into somites during embryogenesis is governed by a multicellular, oscillatory patterning system called the segmentation clock. Despite many overt similarities between vertebrates, differe ...

2020

Cell-autonomous timing drives the vertebrate segmentation clock's wave pattern

Andrew Charles Oates, Sundar Ram Naganathan, Daniele Soroldoni, Laurel Ann Rohde, Petr Strnad, Arianne Bercowsky Rama, Guillaume Michel Valentin

Rhythmic and sequential segmentation of the growing vertebrate body relies on the segmentation clock, a multi-cellular oscillating genetic network. The clock is visible as tissue-level kinematic waves of gene expression that travel through the presomitic m ...

2024

Theory of time delayed genetic oscillations with external noisy regulation

Andrew Charles Oates, Jose Negrete Jr, Laurel Ann Rohde

Video Abstract Video Abstract: Theory of time delayed genetic oscillations with external noisy regulation We present a general theory of noisy genetic oscillators with externally regulated production rate and multiplicative noise. The observables that char ...

2021

Timing by rhythms: Daily clocks and developmental rulers

Andrew Charles Oates

Biological rhythms are widespread, allowing organisms to temporally organize their behavior and metabolism in advantageous ways. Such proper timing of molecular and cellular events is critical to their development and health. This is best understood in the ...

2016

Persistence, period and precision of autonomous cellular oscillators from the zebrafish segmentation clock

Andrew Charles Oates

In vertebrate development, the sequential and rhythmic segmentation of the body axis is regulated by a "segmentation clock". This clock is comprised of a population of coordinated oscillating cells that together produce rhythmic gene expression patterns in ...

2016

Towards a physical understanding of developmental patterning

Andrew Charles Oates, Jose Negrete Jr

The temporal coordination of events at cellular and tissue scales is essential for the proper development of organisms, and involves cell-intrinsic processes that can be coupled by local cellular signalling and instructed by global signalling, thereby crea ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Topology and dynamics of the zebrafish segmentation clock core circuit

Bart Deplancke, Sebastian Maerkl, Andrew Charles Oates, Alina Isakova, Daniele Soroldoni

During vertebrate embryogenesis, the rhythmic and sequential segmentation of the body axis is regulated by an oscillating genetic network termed the segmentation clock. We describe a new dynamic model for the core pace-making circuit of the zebrafish segme ...

2012

Deconstructing body axis morphogenesis in zebrafish embryos using robot-assisted tissue micromanipulation

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Andrew Charles Oates, Erik Mailand, Ece Özelçi, Matthias Rüegg

Classic microsurgical techniques, such as those used in the early 1900s by Mangold and Spemann, have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of embryonic development. However, these techniques are highly specialized, leading to issues of inter-ope ...

Nature Research2022

Preparation of Single-Somite Explants from Zebrafish Embryos

Andrew Charles Oates, Sundar Ram Naganathan

The body axis of vertebrate embryos is periodically subdivided into 3D multicellular units called somites. While genetic oscillations and molecular prepatterns determine the initial length-scale of somites, mechanical processes have been implicated in sett ...

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS2022

From local resynchronization to global pattern recovery in the zebrafish segmentation clock

Andrew Charles Oates

Integrity of rhythmic spatial gene expression patterns in the vertebrate segmentation clock requires local synchronization between neighboring cells by Delta-Notch signaling and its inhibition causes defective segment boundaries. Whether deformation of the ...

2021

Left-right symmetry of zebrafish embryos requires somite surface tension

Andrew Charles Oates, Marko Popovic, Sundar Ram Naganathan

The body axis of vertebrate embryos is periodically segmented into bilaterally symmetric pairs of somites(1,2). The anteroposterior length of somites, their position and left-right symmetry are thought to be molecularly determined before somite morphogenes ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

The Sweetness of Embryonic Elongation and Differentiation

Andrew Charles Oates, Sundar Ram Naganathan

Metabolic pathways play a vital yet poorly understood role in embryogenesis. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Bulusu et al. (2017) and Oginuma et al. (2017) provide insights into the intricate relationship between metabolism and morphogenesis, showing ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2017

Patterning and mechanics of somite boundaries in zebrafish embryos

Andrew Charles Oates, Sundar Ram Naganathan

The body axis of vertebrates is subdivided into repetitive compartments called somites, which give rise primarily to the segmented architecture of the musculoskeletal system in the adult body. Somites form in a sequential and rhythmic manner in embryos and ...

2020

Object segmentation and ground truth in 3D embryonic imaging

Andrew Charles Oates

Many questions in developmental biology depend on measuring the position and movement of individual cells within developing embryos. Yet, tools that provide this data are often challenged by high cell density and their accuracy is difficult to measure. Her ...

2016

A Robotic Surgery Platform for Automated Tissue Micromanipulation in Zebrafish Embryos

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Andrew Charles Oates, Ece Özelçi, Laurel Ann Rohde

Microsurgical manipulations are key experimental techniques in life science research, particularly in embryology. These techniques are most often performed manually by highly skilled scientists, posing limitations on speed, precision, and reproducibility. ...

2024