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Dr. John Salogiannis Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics University of VermontLarner College of Medicine at University of Vermont Burlington Host: Aoife HeaslipDual modes of microtubule-based transport: adaptors and hitchhikers The Salogiannis lab studies a novel mode of intracellular movement called hitchhiking. In hitchhiking, organelles move along microtubules by attaching to motor-driven vesicles at membrane contact sites.About Dr. SalogiannisDr. Salogiannis graduated with a B.S. in Neurobiology and Psychology from the University of Maryland in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University in 2013 and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD from 2014-2021. Dr. Salogiannis joined the faculty in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics as an Assistant Professor in 2021Movement of the endoplasmic reticulum is driven by multiple classes of vesicles marked by Rab-GTPases (https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.1091/mbc.E24-04-0197)Acyl-coA binding protein AcbdA regulates peroxisome hitchhiking on early endosomes (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649231v1)Salogiannis Lab Website (https://www.salogiannislab.org)