Ruolin Fan

  • Position:

    Research Associate

  • Department:

  • Email:

    ruolin.fan@mpfi.org

Recent Papers

Mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux controls neuronal metabolism and long-term memory across species

Amrapali Vishwanath, A., Comyn, T., Mira, R. G., Brossier, C., Pascual-Caro, C., Faour, M., Boumendil, K., Chintaluri, C., Ramon-Duaso, C., Fan, R., Ghosh, K., Farrants, H., Berwick, J.-P., Sivakumar, R., Lopez-Manzaneda, M., Schreiter, E. R., Preat, T., Vogels, T. P., Rangaraju, V., … de Juan-Sanz, J. (2026). Mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux controls neuronal metabolism and long-term memory across species. Nature Metabolism, 1–22.
 

Synapses drive local mitochondrial ATP synthesis to fuel plasticity

Ghosh, I., Fan, R., Shah, M., Bapat, O., & Rangaraju, V. (2025). Synapses drive local mitochondrial ATP synthesis to fuel plasticity (p. 2025.04.09.648032). bioRxiv.
 

An expanded palette of bright and photostable organellar Ca2+ sensors

Moret, A., Farrants, H., Fan, R., Zingg, K. G., Silva, B., Roselli, C., Oertner, T. G., Gee, C. E., Hadjieconomou, D., Rangaraju, V., Schreiter, E. R., & Juan-Sanz, J. de. (2025). An expanded palette of bright and photostable organellar Ca2+ sensors. eLife, 14.

 

Periodic ER-plasma membrane junctions support long-range Ca2+ signal integration in dendrites

Benedetti, L., Fan, R., Weigel, A. V., Moore, A. S., Houlihan, P. R., Kittisopikul, M., Park, G., Petruncio, A., Hubbard, P. M., Pang, S., Xu, C. S., Hess, H. F., Saalfeld, S., Rangaraju, V., Clapham, D. E., De Camilli, P., Ryan, T. A., & Lippincott-Schwartz, J. (2024). Periodic ER-plasma membrane junctions support long-range Ca2+ signal integration in dendrites. Cell.  

VAP spatially stabilizes dendritic mitochondria to locally support synaptic plasticity.

Bapat, O., Purimetla, T., Kruessel, S., Shah, M., Fan, R., Thum, C., Rupprecht, F., Langer, J. D., & Rangaraju, V. (2024). VAP spatially stabilizes dendritic mitochondria to locally support synaptic plasticity. Nature Communications, 15: 205
 

Understanding how kinesin motor proteins regulate postsynaptic function in neuron.

Fan, R., & Lai, K.-O. (2022). Understanding how kinesin motor proteins regulate postsynaptic function in neuron. The FEBS Journal, 289(8), 2128–2144.
 

Understanding how kinesin motor proteins regulate postsynaptic function in neuron.

Fan, R., & Lai, K.-O. (2022). Understanding how kinesin motor proteins regulate postsynaptic function in neuron. The FEBS Journal, 289(8), 2128–2144.
 

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