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Anders Backman is a researcher at Åbo Akademi University, based in the Faculty of Science and Engineering within the Biochemistry and Cell Biology – Solutions for Health programme. His work focuses on lipid-transfer proteins and membrane-trafficking mechanisms that underpin cellular lipid homeostasis and vesicle biology.
Research interests span glycolipid-transfer proteins, sphingolipid transport pathways, and the emerging role of lipid signatures in small extracellular vesicles. Using gene-knockout models, biochemical assays and lipidomic profiling, Backman dissects how specific lipid-transfer proteins sense and shuttle lipids between intracellular membranes, thereby influencing processes ranging from vesicle exocytosis to plasma-membrane remodelling.
Publication trend: a steady output since 2014, with increasing citation impact (Scopus counts up to 15 citations for individual 2021 articles). His 2023 study in Journal of Biological Chemistry demonstrates that loss of glycolipid-transfer protein disrupts vesicle trafficking to the plasma membrane, highlighting a critical node in membrane trafficking networks.
Collaboration & networks: recurrent co-authorship with P. Mattjus and other members of the Åbo Akademi lipid-research cluster; international co-authors from Finland, Sweden and beyond contribute to topically specialised papers.
