Christopher Michael Bate, FRS (born 21 December 1943)[1] is an Emeritus Professor of developmental biology at the Department of Zoology and fellow at King's College, Cambridge.
doctor, of Holmbury St Mary, Dorking,[5] 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;[6][7][8][9] a great-uncle on the maternal side, William Temple, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 to 1944.
[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.