Wong, Zoë Clare2018-12-152018-12-152018-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2414742 pages. Presented to the Department of Biology and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science June 2018Both commensals and pathogens alike have innovated host-adapted survival strategies throughout the struggle to maintain evolutionary relevance. Successful microbes have found ways to build symbiotic relationships and hosts have similarly been conditioned to develop the means to benefit from, or at the very least tolerate, their associated microbes. In ever-changing environments like the gastrointestinal tract, high selective pressures call for bacterial-host interactions that contribute to homeostasis. In the intestine, maintaining healthy conditions depends on a careful balancing act between cell proliferation and cell death.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USBiologyPsychologyMolecular BiologyMicrobiotaDrosophila MidgutGbpASecreted ProteinsCell ProliferationBacterial-Host InteractionsThesis/Dissertation