Publications:
Schneider, D.S., Hudson, K.L., Lin, T.-Y., Anderson, K.V. (1991). Dominant and recessive mutations define functional domains of Toll, a transmembrane protein required for dorsal-ventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo. Genes and Development, 5:797-807. pub med
Schneider, D.S., Jin, Y., Morisato, D., Anderson, K.V. (1994). A processed form of the spaetzle protein defines dorsal-ventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo. Development, 120: 1243-1250. PDF
Elrod-Erickson, M., Mishra, S., Schneider, D.S. (2000). Interactions between the cellular and humoral immune responses in Drosophila. Current Biology, 10: 781-784. PDF
Schneider, D.S. and M. Shahabuddin.(2000), Malaria parasite development in a Drosophila model. Science, 288: 2376-2379. PDF
Schneider, D.S. (2000) Using Drosophila as a model insect. Nature Reviews Genetics. 1: 218-226. PDF
Dionne, MS, Schneider DS. (2002) Screening the fruitfly immune system. Genome biology 3:1010. PDF
Dionne, MS. Ghorhi, N. Schneider, D.S. (2003) Drosophila melanogaster is a genetically-tractable model host for Mycobacterium marinum. Infection and Immunity, 71: 3540-50. PDF
Silverman N, Zhou R, Erlich RL, Hunter M, Bernstein E, Schneider D, Maniatis T. (2003) Immune activation of NF-kappaB and JNK requires Drosophila TAK1. J Biol. Chem.. 278: 48928-34. PDF
Mansfield, B.E., Dionne, M.S., Schneider, D.S., Freitag, N.E. (2003) Exploration of host-pathogen interactions using Listeria monocytogenes and Drosophila melanogaster. Cellular Microbiology, 5: 901-11. pub med
Brandt, S.M., Dionne, M.S., Khush, R.S., Pham, L.N, Vigdal, T.J., Schneider D.S., (2004) Secreted Bacterial Effectors and Host-Produced Eiger/TNF Drive Death in a Salmonella-Infected Fruit Fly. PLoS, 2:12 pp e418 PLoS
Gordon, M.D., Dionne, M.S., Schneider, D.S. and Nusse, R. (2005) A novel Wnt is a feedback inhibitor of Dorsal/NF-kB in Drosophila development and immunity. Nature 431: 746-9
Dionne, M.S., Pham, L., Shirasu-Hiza, M., Schneider, D.S. (2006) foxo regulates an ancient wasting response in Mycobacterium-infected Drosophila. Curr Biol. 2006 Oct 24;16(20):1977-85. PDF
Brennan, CA, Delaney, JR, Schneider, D.S. , Anderson KV. Psidin is required in Drosophila blood cells for both phagocytic degradation and immune activation of the fat body. Curr Biol. 2007 Jan 9;17(1):67-72. Pubmed
Linh N. Pham, Marc S. Dionne, Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, David S. Schneider. A specific primed immune response in Drosophila is dependent on phagocytes. PLoS Pathog. 2007 Mar 9;3(3):e2. PDF
David S. Schneider, Janelle S. Ayres, Stephanie M. Brandt, Alexandre Costa, Marc S. Dionne, Michael M. Gordon, Eric M. Mabery, Madeleine G. Moule, Linh N. Pham, Mimi M. Shirasu-Hiza. Drosophila eiger mutants are sensitive to extracellular pathogens. PLoS Pathogens, 2007 March 23; 3 (3) e41. PDF