Mike Bate is a member of European Molecular Biology Organization. His research is concerned with the way in which the machinery underlying coordinated movement is assembled during embryonic development. This involves both the analysis of the way in which muscles are assembled, specified and patterned, and the investigation of the way in which motor circuits are generated and begin to function.[13]
Bate worked with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster and applied a combination of genetic, molecular and cellular techniques to bear on the issues of neuromuscular development. Mike Bate also worked on the genetic basis of myoblast recruitment and fusion and on an electrophysiological and structural analysis of the way in which functional properties are acquired by embryonic neurons.
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^University of Cambridge Video and Audio Collections: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers, interview conducted by Alan MacFarlane, 2012 URL= https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1112471 Date accessed= 1 May 2018
^Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1931, Kelly's Directories, p. 2
^The Huguenot Society of Great Britain: List of Fellows, 1993, Huguenot Society of Great Britain, p. 1970
^Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, p. 221, Bosanquet of Dingestow pedigree
^Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, p. 221, Bosanquet of Dingestow pedigree
^Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, 1981, A. & C. Black, p. 747
^University of Cambridge Video and Audio Collections: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers, interview conducted by Alan MacFarlane, 2012 URL= https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1112471 Date accessed= 1 May 2018