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SUMMARY:Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in D
 rosophila - Christen Mirth\, Gulbenkian Institute\, Portugal
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CONTACT:Jack Green
DESCRIPTION:Organisms in the wild live in highly variable and unpredictabl
 e environments\, environments that interfere with and affect their develop
 ment. We explore the mechanisms through which the environment alters devel
 opmental progression and growth to generate adult of the appropriate size 
 and shape in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. To do this\, we study 
 1) changes in the progression of pattern of the wing imaginal disc under a
  range of environmental/physiological conditions\, 2) the physiological un
 derpinnings of patterning progression in response to nutrition and 3) how 
 the nutrition-dependent production of hormones regulates developmental tra
 nsitions to control developmental time and body size. These studies uncove
 r the developmental mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity in Drosoph
 ila\, results that will be of relevance to regulating environmentally-indu
 ced development in many organisms.
LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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