Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.

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• Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London
• Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30
• Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

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Host: Boris Adryan

Immune responses and metabolic regulation are intimately linked in all animals. However, our understanding of the mechanistic underpinnings of this linkage is incomplete. I will present two different aspects of metabolic-immune interaction in Drosophila. In the first part of the talk, I will present our recent data showing that the transcription factor MEF2 is a critical switch between immune function and metabolic storage. Flies lacking MEF2 in the fat body exhibit dramatic reductions in storage of triglyceride and glycogen and are simultaneously severely immunocompromised; we have shown that these phenotypes reflect distinct transcriptional functions of MEF2 , and that the loss of “metabolic” MEF2 contributes to the loss of anabolic enzyme expression in Gram-negative bacterial infection. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss the role of the Drosophila cytokine upd3 in regulation of phagocyte bactericidal activity and cellular lipid metabolism during mycobacterial infections.

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