Mike Bate

{{Short description|British biologist}}

{{For|those of a similar name|Michael Bates (disambiguation)}}

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{{BLP sources|date=October 2010}}

Christopher Michael Bate, FRS (born 21 December 1943)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 is an Emeritus Professor of developmental biology at the Department of Zoology and fellow at King's College, Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/fellows/michael-bate.html |title=Michael Bate, Fellow in Developmental Biology, King's College, Cambridge |publisher=Kings.cam.ac.uk |date= |access-date=2010-10-12}}{{cite journal |url=http://sbl.salk.edu/~riek/article7.pdf |title=Three-dimensional NMR structure of a self-folding domain of the prion protein PrP(121-231) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816195218/http://sbl.salk.edu/~riek/article7.pdf |archive-date=2010-08-16 |journal=Trends in Biochemical Sciences |first1=Rudi |last1=Glockshuber |first2=Simone |last2=Hornemann |first3=Roland |last3=Riek |first4=Gerhard |last4=Wider |first5=Martin |last5=Billeter |first6=Kurt |last6=Wüthrich |volume=22 |issue=7 |doi=10.1016/S0968-0004(97)01070-0 |page=241 |date=July 1997}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/subjects/natural-sciences.html |title=Natural Sciences | King's College, Cambridge |publisher=Kings.cam.ac.uk |date= |access-date=2010-10-12}}

The son of John Gordon Bate, M.B. Ch.B., an R.A.F. doctor, of Holmbury St Mary, Dorking,Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, p. 221, Bosanquet of Dingestow pedigree his paternal grandfather was Herbert Bate, Dean of York 1932–41. His mother, Rachel Denise, was daughter of Samuel Ronald Courthope Bosanquet, KC, recorder of Walsall, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hertford;Old Public School Boy's Who's Who, 1933, pg 83Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1931, Kelly's Directories, p. 2The Huguenot Society of Great Britain: List of Fellows, 1993, Huguenot Society of Great Britain, p. 1970Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, p. 221, Bosanquet of Dingestow pedigree a great-uncle on the maternal side, William Temple, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 to 1944.Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, p. 221, Bosanquet of Dingestow pedigreeWho was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, 1981, A. & C. Black, p. 747University 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

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/bate.htm |title=Zoology: Bate |publisher=Zoo.cam.ac.uk |date= |access-date=2010-10-12}}

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.