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Dr. Edward Blumenthal on Sabbatical
During the 2011-12 academic year, Dr. Edward Blumenthal is spending a sabbatical
leave at KU Leuven, the oldest university in Belgium. He is partly supported
during the sabbatical by a fellowship from the host university. Dr. Blumenthal
is spending the year in the laboratory of Professor Jozef Vanden Broeck, an
expert on insect physiology, and is continuing his current research on a gene in
the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster called drop-dead. This
gene appears to be important for the proper development of epithelial tissues in
the fly, and Dr. Blumenthal is using the sabbatical to identify other genes that
interact with drop-dead and to understand more fully how drop-dead
affects fly development and structure. He is also using the sabbatical leave to
write and submit several manuscripts, prepare grant proposals, and develop
important contacts and collaborations with colleagues in Europe.
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