Dr. Alexander S. Bates

timeline

A timeline of my research, training, talks and awards. Scroll down to travel back through time.

2026
2026–2028 · Award / grant

Warren Alpert Foundation Distinguished Scholars Award

Warren Alpert Foundation · US

$400,000 USD ($200,000/year for 2 years) for research on neural circuits linking metabolic state with navigation

2026 · Talk

Boston Area Drosophila (BAD) Meeting

Mass General Brigham · Somerville, MA

2026 · Talk

4th Asia-Pacific Drosophila Neuroscience Conference (APDNC4)

Shenzhen, China

2026 · Award / grant

Fellowship of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES)

Royal Entomological Society · UK

Elected for proven significant contribution to the field of entomology

2026 · Leadership

COSYNE 2026 abstract reviewer

COSYNE

2025
2025 · Leadership

Teaching at the San Juan Winter School for Connectomics

San Juan Winter School · San Juan, Puerto Rico

2025 · Talk

CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

2025 · Talk

FlyWire Townhall

Princeton, NJ

2025 · Talk

HMS Neurobiology Department Talk

Boston, MA

2025 · Talk

CRANTb Connectomics Symposium

New York, NY

2024
2024 · Talk

CSHL Neuronal Circuits

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

2023
2023 · Poster

HHMI Investigators' Meeting

HHMI HQ · Chevy Chase

2023 · Leadership

Attended HFP Leadership and Management Skills Course for Postdocs

HFP Consulting · remote

2022
2022–2026 · Award / grant

Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship

Wellcome Trust & University of Oxford · UK

300,000 GBP towards my current research

2021
2021–2022 · Award / grant

EMBO fellow

European Molecular Biology Organization · Europe

Also accepted as a International Human Frontier Science Program fellow

2020
2020 · Position

Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology

Harvard Medical School · Boston, US

Investigating navigational circuitry using calcium imaging, neurophysiology and behavioural studies involving virtual reality with *Drosophila melanogaster*, in the laboratory of Prof. Rachel Wilson

2019
2019 · Talk

ECRO meeting

European Chemoreception Research Organization · Trieste, Italy

2019 · Poster

UK Neural Computation

University of Nottingham · Nottingham, UK

2019 · Experience

Visiting Scholar

Janelia Research Campus · Ashburn, US

2018
2018 · Experience

Paris Spring School in Neuroscience Techniques

Paris Descartes University · Paris, France

2018 · Talk

Boehringer Ingelheim Meeting

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds · Hirschegg, Austria

2018 · Leadership

Officially mentored summer student

MRC LMB, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2017
2017 · Talk

MPI Connectomics meeting

Max Planck Institute · Berlin, Germany

2017 · Talk

ECRO meeting

European Chemoreception Research Organization · Cambridge, UK

2017–2018 · Leadership

Officially mentored undergraduate student

Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2017 · Poster

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds communication workshop

Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation · Mainz, Germany

2017 · Talk

Boehringer Ingelheim Meeting

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds · Hirschegg, Austria

2017 · Leadership

Officially mentored summer student

MRC LMB, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2017 · Leadership

LMB graduate symposium lead organiser

MRC LMB, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2016
2016 · Poster

Maggot Meeting

Janelia Research Campus · Ashburn, US

2016–2018 · Award / grant

Boehringer Ingelheim PhD Scholarship

Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation · European

2016 · Poster

High-resolution circuit reconstruction meeting

Janelia Research Campus · Ashburn, US

2016 · Talk

Brains and Roses

Schaeffer and Datta group organised · Montserrat, Catalonia

2016 · Leadership

LMB graduate symposium organiser

MRC LMB, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2016 · Poster

LMB GSA Symposium

MRC LMB, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2016 · Experience

Visiting Scholar

Janelia Research Campus · Ashburn, US

2016–2019 · Leadership

President of BlueSci

University College London · London, UK

2015
2015 · Education

Neuroscience PhD

MRC LMB, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

PhD student with Dr. Greg Jefferis

2015–2019 · Award / grant

Herchel Smith PhD Scholarship

Herchel Smith Foundation · Cambridge, UK

2015 · Experience

University of Queensland Winter Scholarship

University of Queensland · Brisbane, Australia

2014
2014–2015 · Leadership

President of the UCLU Writer's Society

University College London · London, UK

2014–2015 · Leadership

Science Editor, Pi Magazine

University College London · London, UK

2014 · Experience

Amgen Scholarship

Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

2014 · Leadership

UCL iGEM 2014 Advisor

University College London · London, UK

2013
2013 · Experience

UCL iGEM 2013 team member

University College London · London, UK

2013 · Experience

Summer student in the biomolecular modelling laboratory

Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute · London, UK

2012
2012–2015 · Education

Neuroscience BSc

University College London · London, UK

1st class degree with honours

2008
2008–2012 · Education

High School

Woodbridge High School · London, UK

6 A\*s at A-level, comprising: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English Literature, Philosophy and Russian, and in a history related EPQ (level 3) project

1993
23 September 1993 · Born

Born in London