Tony PERRY, Ph. D.  

Tony Perry received his B.Sc. in Microbiology from the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Bristol, England and his doctorate from the University of Liverpool four years later.In 1989 he became a postdoctoral fellow working on epididymal sperm maturation at Bristol University and in 1996 won a European Molecular Biology Travel Fellowship to work in the laboratory of Ryuzo Yanagimachi on the mechanism of oocyte activation, which remains one of his research interests.From there, Dr. Perry moved first to the Rockefeller University and then to the company Advanced Cell Technology, working primarily on novel methods of genome manipulation.In 2002 Dr. Perry took his present position as Team Leader of the Laboratory of Mammalian Molecular Embryology at the RIKEN CDB, where he works on mechanisms in mammalian preimplantation embryos.