<Recent research activities>International collaboration work with a group in France

Abstract

Recently I have been working with the Marion-Poll lab in Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the largest governmental research organization in France, to analyze how Drosophila can detect microbes with their taste system and brush them of their cuticula to limit pathogenic infections. This collaboration work has started in 2013 with the generous support of Kyoto University on John Mung Program and we keep continuing this collaboration project in Japan and France. Though the collaboration level is not large we could produce the first paper in 2014, last year and I'd like to share that work here.