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Publication Regulation of excitatory synapse development by the RhoGEF Ephexin5(2013-10-18) Salogiannis, John; Greenberg, Michael Eldon; Tsai, Li-Huei; Kaeser, Pascal; He, Zhigang; Schwarz, ThomasThe neuronal synapse is a specialized cell-cell junction that mediates communication between neurons. The formation of a synapse requires the coordinated activity of signaling molecules that can either promote or restrict synapse number and function. Tight regulation of these signaling molecules are critical to ensure that synapses form in the correct number, time and place during brain development. A number of molecular mechanisms that promote synapse formation have been elucidated, but specific mechanisms that restrict synapse formation are less well understood. The findings presented within this dissertation focus on how a specific Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) Ephexin5 functions to restrict early synaptic development and how perturbations in Ephexin5 signaling may lead to human neurodevelopmental disease.Publication Peroxisomes move by hitchhiking on early endosomes using the novel linker protein PxdA(The Rockefeller University Press, 2016) Salogiannis, John; Egan, Martin J.; Reck-Peterson, Samara LEukaryotic cells use microtubule-based intracellular transport for the delivery of many subcellular cargos, including organelles. The canonical view of organelle transport is that organelles directly recruit molecular motors via cargo-specific adaptors. In contrast with this view, we show here that peroxisomes move by hitchhiking on early endosomes, an organelle that directly recruits the transport machinery. Using the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans we found that hitchhiking is mediated by a novel endosome-associated linker protein, PxdA. PxdA is required for normal distribution and long-range movement of peroxisomes, but not early endosomes or nuclei. Using simultaneous time-lapse imaging, we find that early endosome-associated PxdA localizes to the leading edge of moving peroxisomes. We identify a coiled-coil region within PxdA that is necessary and sufficient for early endosome localization and peroxisome distribution and motility. These results present a new mechanism of microtubule-based organelle transport in which peroxisomes hitchhike on early endosomes and identify PxdA as the novel linker protein required for this coupling.