Marc Dionne

Professor Marc Dionne is a leading academic at Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences (Faculty of Natural Sciences), specializing in innate immunity and host-pathogen interactions. His research focuses on understanding how host genotype and physiology influence bacterial infection biology, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. Key affiliations include the Centre for Bacterial Resistance Biology, Immuno-Pathology Network, and Institute of Infection.

Education:

• PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
• BS in Mathematics and Physics, Yale University

Research Interests:

• Integration of immune responses with systemic physiology
• Physiological disruptions caused by bacterial pathogens
• Conserved signaling pathways in immunity and infection

His work bridges immunology, microbiology, and biochemistry, with a focus on metabolic pathways, cytokine regulation, and host defense mechanisms in Drosophila.

Grants & Funding: Supported by the Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust, MRC, and BBSRC. Recent studies explore bacterial resistance mechanisms, metabolic interactions in infection, and cytokine signaling.

Labs/Teams: Head of the Dionne Lab (dionnelab.net), which investigates bacterial pathogenesis and host responses using genetic, biochemical, and systems biology approaches.