Dan Hultmark is a Swedish biologist currently Professor Emeritus, whose research focused on the mechanisms of

innate immunity The innate immune system or nonspecific immune system is one of the two main immunity strategies in vertebrates (the other being the adaptive immune system). The innate immune system is an alternate defense strategy and is the dominant immune s ...

, using Drosophila as a model system, at

Umeå University Umeå University (; Ume Sami language, Ume Sami: ) is a public university, public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present bord ...

and an Elected Fellow of the

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. Hultmark is also a member of the Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, Tribolium Genome Sequencing Consortium.

Awards and honors

Hultmark received the Flormanska belöningen of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1994) and the

Göran Gustafsson Prize The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences () is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting natural sciences and mathem ...

in Molecular Biology (1996). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the

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section of biological sciences since 2007. Between 2009 and 2013 Hultmark was invited by the Academy of Finland to the Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere as a Finland Distinguished Professor.

Publications (selected)

Book

* Brey, Hultmark (Eds), ''Molecular mechanism of immune responses in insects'' London: Chapman & Hall, 1998. ISBN 9780412712807

Peer-reviewed journals

* Boman HG, Hultmark D. ''Cell-free immunity in insects''. Annu Rev Microbiol. 1987;41:103-26. doi: 10.1146/annurev.mi.41.100187.000535. PMID 3318666. * Little TJ, Hultmark D, Read AF. ''Invertebrate immunity and the limits of mechanistic immunology''. Nat Immunol. 2005 Jul;6(7):651-4. doi: 10.1038/ni1219. PMID 15970937. * Sackton TB, Lazzaro BP, Schlenke TA, Evans JD, Hultmark D, Clark AG., ''Dynamic evolution of the innate immune system in Drosophila.'' In:

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39, No. 12 (2007) 1461-1468 doi: 10.1038/ng.2007.60. PMID 17987029 * Anderl I, Hultmark D. ''New ways to make a blood cell.''

Elife ''eLife'' is a not-for-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal, science publisher for the Biomedicine, biomedical and life sciences. It was established at the end of 2012 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, ...

. 2015 Mar 12;4:e06877. doi: 10.7554/eLife.06877. PMID 25764304; PMCID: PMC4357284. * Yang H, Hultmark D. ''Tissue communication in a systemic immune response of Drosophila''. Fly (Austin). 2016 Jul 2;10(3):115-22. doi: 10.1080/19336934.2016.1182269. Epub 2016 Apr 26. PMID 27116253; PMCID: PMC4970531. * Yang H, Hultmark D. ''Drosophila muscles regulate the immune response against wasp infection via carbohydrate metabolism''.

Sci Rep ''Scientific Reports'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences. The journal was established in 2011. The journal states that their aim is to assess solely t ...

. 2017 Nov 16;7(1):15713. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15940-2. PMID 29146985; PMCID: PMC5691183.

References

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