Patrick O'Farrell
Summary
Patrick O'Farrell directs the research in a lab that examines diverse and fundamental biological questions using Drosophila (fruit flies) as an experimental system.
He has active research projects investigating the mechanisms and regulation of the conserved responses elicited by hypoxia (low oxygen).
He also focuses on the subtle and complex process of cell division, as well as the fruitfly's innate immune response.
His work on gene expression was influential in the development of the Cellular Psyche (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).
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Links
Home Page: http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/ofarrell_patrick.php
Interview: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2869091
SB Carroll, S DiNardo, PH O'Farrell, RA White, and MP Scott, "Temporal and spatial relationships between segmentation and homeotic gene expression in Drosophila embryos: distributions of the fushi tarazu, engrailed, Sex combs reduced, Antennapedia, and Ultrabithorax proteins": Genes Development, 2, pp 350-360 1988: http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/reprint/2/3/350.pdf