Laboratory of Mammalian Molecular Embryology
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, England
[11th July 2023] Public engagement event "Five Pints of Science" at The Packhorse, Bath UK
[27th June 2023] Tony addressed the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Copenhagen. His talk covered some of our recent work on the initiation of transcription in mouse and human embryos.
[June 2023] Maki presented her work at ISSCR 2023, Boston USA
[February 2023] 'A program of successive gene expression in mouse one-cell embryos'
Cell Reports
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112023
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[October, 2022] 'The initiation of mammalian embryonic transcription: to begin at the beginning'
In an Opinion piece just published in Trends in Cell Biology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcb.2022.08.008
[December 21st, 2021] ‘Human embryonic genome activation initiates at the one-cell stage’
Cell Stem Cell Our latest work published in (online ahead)
https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1934-5909(21)00484-7
[June 21st, 2021] 'Discovery of new imprinted genes'
our new paper is published in Nature Communications
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23510-4
[May 25th, 2020] 'Nanodevices show how cells change with time, by tracking from the inside' our new paper is published in Nature Materials
[October 22nd, 2019] 'This House Supports the Creation of Genetically Modified Human Babies' at the Warwick University Debating Union.
[November 16th, 2018] "Protein expression revisited" Our recent work has been featured in Science http://www.sciencemag.org/features/2018/11/protein-expression-revisited?_ga=2.36552931.2146500983.1543447456-1278811488.1543447456
[August 21st, 2018] "DNA+: Beauty", BBC iPlayer programme
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06gx2kf/radio-1-stories-dna-beauty#
[July 3rd, 2018] A novel switch to control genome editing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28178-3
[June 14-15th, 2018] UK-Japan bilateral international meeting
[February 8th, 2018]
Tony will give a talk about human genome editing at the Royal College of Physicians Advanced Medicine conference https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/advanced-medicine-2
[January 31st, 2018] Tony speaks at Festive of Genomics
http://www.festivalofgenomicslondon.com/welcome
[November 9th, 2017] Humans 2.0: the lab contributes to a review on mitochondrial replacement therapy in November’s issue of Nature Biotechnology
Illustration of the initiation of embryonic life immediately after fertilisation.
Does the switch that begins embryo formation also initiate cancer?
Embryo gene activation in development depicted, M.C. Escher-style, as a cyclical event linking one generation to the next.
Credit: Maki Asami.
Illustration of the initiation of embryonic life immediately after fertilisation.
Does the switch that begins embryo formation also initiate cancer?
Credit
Maki Asami/University of Bath
Celebration with collaborators in Barcelona 25th May 2020
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Dec 2019
May 2019, wolfson college
SPERM ALARM : Banksy
Feb 2019, Barbican
Aug 2019, Sushi party with visiting Japanese students!
April 22nd, 2017: Tony's talk at TEDxThessaloniki
April 23rd, 2018
Tony with students who attended his talk on genome editing at Godalming College.