AIMRC Seminar on Interorgan Communication in Drosophila

Norbert Perrimon

Norbert Perrimon

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center (AIMRC) will host Norbert Perrimon, the James Stillman Professor of Developmental Biology, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, via Zoom, when Perrimon will describe the various hormonal systems that organs use to communicate and regulate physiology.  

During this AIMRC seminar, Perrimon will discuss his efforts at dissecting the molecular mechanisms underlying the communication between organs in Drosophila, with the goal of describing the various hormonal systems that organs use to communicate and regulate physiology. 

Perrimon is the James Stillman Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an associate member of the Broad Institute. He is a geneticist recognized for his work in signal transduction and the development of functional genomics methods. 

He is known particularly for the characterization of canonical signaling pathways and the development of methods, such as the FLP-FRT Dominant Female Sterile technique to generate germline mosaics, the Gal4-UAS method to control gene expression both spatially and temporally, and high-throughput RNAi screening. Perrimon was born in France in 1958 and became a U.S. citizen in 2005.

He received a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1983 and has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1986.  He received the George W. Beadle Medal from the Genetics Society of America in 2004.  He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,  EMBO and the National Academy of Sciences. 

This event is supported by the NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20GM139768. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.