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Cover: Presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2; orange) in the gut of Drosophila melanogaster following infection. Bandarra et al. identified a novel function of the mammalian hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) and the Drosophila homologue (Sima) in restraining the major inflammation-responsive transcription factor, nuclear factor κB (NF-κB). H2O2 levels were increased in sima loss-of-function transgenic flies following Serratia marcescens infection. HIF-1α was identified as an inhibitor of NF-κB activity, and could therefore be important in preventing excessive and harmful pro-inflammatory responses. See article by Bandarra et al. on page 169. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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A MODEL FOR LIFE
An odyssey in the space of molecules, genes, biology and brain: an interview with Sabine Cordes
Sabine Cordes is currently Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, where she studies the genes involved in craniofacial and neuronal development and psychiatric disorders. Although now renowned as an excellent mouse geneticist and neurobiologist, she is actually a biochemist by training. Indeed, she started her career at the Department of Biochemistry at Berkeley, University of California, studying ethylene-induced gene expression during tomato fruit ripening with Robert L. Fischer. She then became fascinated by brain development and decided to join Greg Barsh’s lab at Stanford University to work specifically on hindbrain segmentation. Her interest in psychiatric disorders was, in her own words, ‘accidental’. In this interview, Sabine recounts the interesting steps that took her from the study of chemistry and molecules to that of genes and mouse genetics, to researching on neurodevelopment and mood disorders. She also shares with us her personal forward-looking view of biomedical science, based on her own experience and on the impact of new advances that are revolutionising our understanding of cell biology and neurobiology.
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