Arash Bashirullah

The paper identifies a conserved adapter protein and cis-acting sequences that mediate BLTP2 targeting to ER-PM contact sites in Drosophila.

This study investigates the roles of VPS13A and BLTP2 in movement disorders using Drosophila models, finding distinct neurodegenerative and synaptic effects.

This study identifies Hoi1 as an adaptor that targets BLTP2-like proteins to ER-PM contact sites in yeast, regulating lipid homeostasis and showing conservation in worms and flies.

The paper shows that retromer complex dysfunction leads to mistargeting of secretory cargo and accumulation of amyloid precursor protein in enlarged endosomes, linking retromer defects to neurodegenerative disease progression.