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Piero Sanfilippo

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteORCID 0000-0002-9650-5243Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Drosophila· 4 Approach:experimental assay· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1

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Electrical synapses mediate visual approach behavior

Giovanni Frighetto, Mark Dombrovski, L Castillo, Pratap Meera, Parmis Mirshahidi, Pegah Sadat Mirshahidi, Piero Sanfilippo, Andrea Vaccari, Pratyush Kandimalla, Volker Hartenstein, Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev, S Lawrence Zipursky, Mark Arthur Frye

The paper identifies LC17 neurons and their electrical synapses as critical for visual approach behavior in fruit flies.

bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Gradients of Recognition Molecules Wire Visuomotor Transformation

Mark Dombrovski, Yixin Zang, Giovanni Frighetto, Andrea Vaccari, HyoJong Jang, Parmis Mirshahidi, Fangming Xie, Piero Sanfilippo, Bryce W. Hina, Aadil Rehan, Roni H. Hussein, Pegah S. Mirshahidi, Catherine Lee, Aileen Morris, Mark Arthur Frye, , S Lawrence Zipursky

The paper identifies molecular gradients in Drosophila neurons that regulate synaptic connectivity for visuomotor transformation.

bioRxiv · Sep 4, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Constitutive and conditional epitope-tagging of endogenous G protein coupled receptors in Drosophila

Shivan L. Bonanno, Piero Sanfilippo, Aditya Eamani, Maureen McGuirk Sampson, Binu Kandagedon, Kenneth Li, Giselle D. Burns, Marylyn E. Makar, S Lawrence Zipursky, David E. Krantz

The paper develops a method to tag endogenous GPCRs in Drosophila for localization studies and uses it to investigate receptor distribution and function in neural circuits.

Journal of Neuroscience · Jun 27, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Mapping of multiple neurotransmitter receptor subtypes and distinct protein complexes to the connectome

Piero Sanfilippo, Alexander J. Kim, Anuradha Bhukel, Juyoun Yoo, Pegah S. Mirshahidi, Vijaya Pandey, Harry Bevir, Ashley Yuen, Parmis Mirshahidi, Peiyi Guo, Hongsheng Li, James Akira Wohlschlegel, Yoshinori Aso, S Lawrence Zipursky

The paper maps neurotransmitter receptor subtypes and protein complexes to synapses in Drosophila using molecular and connectomic techniques.

Neuron · Jan 22, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience