“The ability to store and remobilize energy rich lipids is central to the physiology of organisms. Lipids are stored in dedicated organelles called lipid droplets (LDs). They consist of a core of storage lipids surrounded by a protein bound phospholipid monolayer. On top of their role in energy metabolism, the functional repertoire of LDs is constantly growing; mostly by virtue of the proteins attached to LDs. A key interest of my lab is to investigate the inter- and intracellular diversification of LDs as well as the function of the LD-associated proteins. For our analyses we mainly use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. One of the LD-associated proteins investigated by us, which we called Sturkopf, turned out to be a regulator of larval growth. In my presentation, I will discuss how an LD-associated protein can be involved in the regulation of organismic growth and will also present further recent studies carried out by my lab targeting larval growth as an example of a resource allocation problem accessible to both experimental and modeling methodologies.”

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