Olivier Pourquié

Director
Departmaent of Human Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School
United States of America

Professor Genetics
Biography

Olivier Pourquie is Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was the director of the Institute for Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) in France and before that a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City. He graduated as an engineer in France and trained with Nicole Le Douarin. He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Development. Dr. Pourquie authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and of the Academia Europea. His work on the segmentation clock that controls the periodicity of vertebrae was recognized as one of the milestones in developmental biology of the 20th century by Nature Magazine.

Research Intrest

Genetics Molecular pathology  

List of Publications
Genetics. Chicken genome--science nuggets to come soon. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Science (New York, N.Y.), June 13, 2003 Burt D, Pourquie O
Welcome to syndetome: a new somitic compartment. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Developmental cell, May 1, 2003 Dubrulle J, Pourquie O
Vertebrate segmentation: lunatic transcriptional regulation. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Current biology : CB, October 15, 2002 Pourquie O
Periodic notch inhibition by lunatic fringe underlies the chick segmentation clock. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Nature, January 12, 2003 Dale JK, Maroto M, Dequeant ML, Malapert P, McGrew M, Pourquie O
More than patterning--Hox genes and the control of posterior axial elongation. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Developmental cell, October 1, 2009 Aulehla A, Pourquie O
Developmental Biology. Managing patterns and proportions over time. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Science (New York, N.Y.), September 26, 2014 Pourquie O
Human development: a Special Issue. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Development (Cambridge, England), September 15, 2015 Pourquié O
Future developments: your thoughts and our plans. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Development (Cambridge, England), January 1, 2016 Pourquié O, Brown K
Standing Up for Sticklebacks. Olivier Pourquie, Ph.D. Cell, January 14, 2016 Pourquié O