Richa Gupta

The paper investigates lactate dynamics in Drosophila glutamatergic neurons under nutrient deprivation, finding that lactate consumption correlates with mitochondrial density and temporal correlations exist between pre- and post-barrier disruption lactate levels.

This paper identifies bioenergetic dysfunction due to reduced activity-induced mitochondrial ATP production as the cause of synaptic defects in a Drosophila ALS model.