Dr Fanis Missirlis
Lecturer
- Room: 4.37, Fogg Building
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3044
- Email: f.missirlis("at" sign)qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Research website: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/fmissirlis/
We use the model organism Drosophila melanogaster to investigate the genetics, cell biology and physiology of iron metabolism.
We will be conducting genetic screens to identify novel factors involved in the biological functions of iron, using our recently described fly model, which survives on endogenous fluorescent ferritin (Missirlis et al., Genetics; September 2007). Current research projects include a) the analysis of cellular pathways governing synthesis, trafficking and iron loading of ferritins (the iron storage protein complexes of most organisms) and of the role ferritins play during development and in apoptosis and b) iron metabolism in the fly nervous system.
The collective aim of these projects is to understand how iron utilization is accomplished and coordinated by the organism, providing new relevant information to understand human iron metabolism and related diseases.
Research group
Postgraduate supervision:
Mandilaras, Konstantinos; k.mandilaras ("at" sign) qmul.ac.uk;