Asmita Ghosh

The paper shows that TDP-43 pathology causes a cryptic exon in G3BP1 to be included in neurons, leading to a protein that disrupts stress granule dynamics in ALS/FTD.

The paper shows that GroEL/ES buffers entropic traps in protein folding pathways introduced by mutations, which are rescued by the chaperonin, while it can also edit non-native contacts but is not utilized in vivo.

The paper investigates cellular responses to proteostasis impairments in yeast, finding that transcriptional responses often fail to restore proteostasis and that over-expression of alternative machineries can partially compensate for gene deletions.