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Contact Info
Phone: 301-405-5151
Louisa Wu
Associate Professor

Graduate Program Affiliations

  • BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)

Research Interests

Host defense against pathogens; signal transduction and cell-cell signaling in the innate immune response in insects

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995

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Latest Publications

Nazario-Toole AE,Wu LP
Assessing the Cellular Immune Response of the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster, Using an In Vivo Phagocytosis Assay.
J Vis Exp. 2019 Apr 10;(146):. doi: 10.3791/59543. Epub 2019 Apr 10
Nandy A,Lin L,Velentzas PD,Wu LP,Baehrecke EH,Silverman N
The NF-κB Factor Relish Regulates Atg1 Expression and Controls Autophagy.
Cell Rep. 2018 Nov 20;25(8):2110-2120.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.10.076. Epub
Nazario-Toole AE,Robalino J,Okrah K,Corrada-Bravo H,Mount SM,Wu LP
The Splicing Factor RNA-Binding Fox Protein 1 Mediates the Cellular Immune Response in Drosophila melanogaster.
J Immunol. 2018 Aug 15;201(4):1154-1164. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1800496. Epub 2018 Jul 11