The Antimicrobial Defense of Drosophila: A Paradigm for Innate Immunity

Air date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 3:00:00 PM
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Category: Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Description: The last twenty years have experienced an unprecedented advance in our understanding of innate immunity in Metazoans and Plants. Up to the early nineties of the last century, little information had been obtained about pathogen recognition by the innate immune system and about the effector mechanisms induced by invading microorganisms. Drosophila, with its easily tractable genetics, can be credited with having made significant contributions to our present understanding of the basics of innate defenses.

The presentation will review our current understanding, but will also address the many unresolved questions which await further in-depth analysis. A phylogenetic perspective will try to integrate the data obtained by studying Drosophila immunity, into the more general framework of invertebrate and vertebrate immune defenses

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Author: Dr. Jules Hoffmann
Runtime: 01:01:09

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