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Life Sciences Seminar Series: Innate Immunity: From Flies to Humans

Life Sciences Seminar Series: Innate Immunity: From Flies to Humans

You are cordially invited to the lecture: "Innate Immunity: From Flies to Humans" delivered by Jules A. Hoffmann, University of Strasbourg, France.

WHEN: May 21, 2015 from 17:00
WHERE: Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendel Square, Brno 

Abstract:

Dr. Hoffmann’s research has focused on the development and the defence reactions of insects. Since 1990, he and his laboratory have explored the potent antimicrobial mechanisms of Drosophila as a paradigm for innate immune defences. In particular, the group is creditedwith having unravelled the role of Toll receptors in fighting infections. Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler were jointly awarded a half share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity". Hoffmann and Lemaitre discovered the function of the fruit fly Toll gene in innate immunity. Its mammalian homologs, the Toll-like receptors, were discovered by Beutler. Toll-like receptors identify constituents of other organisms like fungi and bacteria, and trigger an immune response, explaining, for example, how septic shock can be triggered by bacterial remains.
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