Dr. Norbert Perrimon's lab at Harvard Medical School researches functional genomics, cell circuitry, and tissue homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster.
Lipids regulate export of lysosomal enzymes from the endoplasmic reticulum.
Xia B, Han M, Park I, Perrimon N. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Sep 22;123(38):e2616684123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2616684123. Epub 2026 Sep 17. PMID: 42752232
A pro-apoptotic selection strategy enables CRISPR screening in mosquitoes and identifies Lachesin as a chikungunya virus entry factor
Anja C. M. de Bruin et al.
bioRxiv 2026.07.31.742019; doi: doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.31.…
New paper: Lipid metabolism of hepatocyte-like cells supports intestinal tumor growth in Drosophila. Huang K, Miao T, Chen Y, Dantas E, Sanford J, Asara JM, Moon SJ, Hu Y, Wang K, Han M, Goncalves M, Perrimon N. Nat Commun. 2026 Jul 3. doi: 10.1038 s41467-026-75074-w.
New paper:
Streptomyces produce a diphtheria toxin-like exotoxin that targets insects.
Xu et al.Nat Microbiol. 2026 Apr 30. doi: 10.1038/s41564-026-02315-5. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42062574
New paper: Bosch, J. A. et al. (2026) Multi-omic mapping of Drosophila protein secretomes reveals tissue-specific origins and inter-organ trafficking. Nat Commun. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71763-8. PMID: 42009678
Miao, T., Liu, Y., Qadiri, M., Dasseux, A., Asara, J. M., Hu, Y., Sun, X., Pliego-Alcántara, LDC., Dibble, C. and Perrimon, N. (2026) Renal coenzyme A (CoA) production from Vitamin B5 fuels stem cell proliferation and tumor growth. Nat Commun. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71716-1.
Han. M., Xia, B., Kim, A-R., Filine, E., Stoneburner, E., Miao, T., Liu, Y., Zirin, J. and Perrimon, N. (2026) Phage display-mediated immuno-PCR to detect low-abundance secreted proteins in Drosophila. PNAS. 14;123(15):e2531777123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2531777123. PMID: 41941621
Petsakou, A., Filine. E., Li, M., Zheng, A., and Perrimon, N. (2026) Tumor-induced orexigenic imbalance lowers protein appetite and drives early organ wasting symptoms. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-70074-2. PMID: 41792134
Lane, E., Petsakou, A., Liu, Y., Chen, W., Qadiri, M., Hu, Y. and Perrimon, N. (2026) Cholinergic signaling modulates intestinal pathophysiology in a Drosophila model of cystic fibrosis. PloS Genetics. 22(2):e1012048. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1012048. PMID: 41701793
Ewen-Campen, B., Chen, W., Tattikota, S. G., Liu, Y., Hu, Y. and Perrimon, N. (2026) The Drosophila proventriculus lacks stem cells but compensates for age-related cell loss via endoreplication-mediated cell growth. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.27.6…. Nat Comm. PMID: 41593082
Moon, Hu, Dzieciatkowska, Kim, Asara, D'Alessandro and Perrimon (2026) Modeling tissue-specific Drosophila metabolism identifies high sugar diet-induced metabolic dysregulation in muscle at reaction and pathway levels. Nat Comm. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-68395-3.
Lin, Deng, Gao, Tan, Zhong, Tan, Tan, Virshup, Bosch, Perrimon and Wang (2026) Microproteins Simba1 and Simba2 activate Wingless signaling during the reactivation of neural stem cells in Drosophila. Nat. Comm. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-66727-3. PMID: 41298547