Masafumi Tsuboi

The paper reconstructs growth cones of callosal projection neurons in the developing mouse brain and finds they have a planar, dorsoventrally oriented morphology with filopodia that precede accelerated axon growth.

This study identifies FKBP8 as the tethering partner of PDZD8 at ER-mitochondria contact sites, showing their interdependence in regulating mitochondrial morphology.

The paper characterizes pyroptosis using secretome profiling and morphology analysis, revealing complex connections with apoptosis through machine learning models.

The paper shows that most axonal mitochondria in mammalian neurons lack mtDNA and do not produce ATP, contrasting with dendritic mitochondria.