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Protein homeostasis or proteostasis is a highly complex and interconnected pathway that regulates the fate of a protein by controlling its biogenesis, folding, trafficking and degradation. Maintenance of proper cellular proteostasis is crucial for ensuring normal development, healthy aging and resistance to environmental stresses. Excessive accumulation of misfolded proteins can disrupt proteostasis and is the cause of many diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. The cellular mechanisms that are triggered to cope with misfolded proteins are complex and vary depending on the nature of the misfolded protein, its subcellular localization, and the protein degradation pathways employed. A global understanding of the cellular responses could enable the development of novel therapeutic strategies that restore proteostasis and normal health. My current research is focused on modeling protein aggregation disorders in C. elegans and employing innovative, high-throughput strategies to 1) gain a comprehensive understanding of the genetic mechanisms that underlie the disease, and 2) identify therapeutic compounds.

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  • A syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by rare variants in PPFIA3

    Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Paul, M. S., Michener, S. L., Pan, H., Chan, H., Pfliger, J. M., Rosenfeld, J. A., Lerma, V. C., Tran, A., Longley, M. A., Lewis, R. A., Weisz-Hubshman, M., Bekheirnia, M. R., Bekheirnia, N., Massingham, L., Zech, M., Wagner, M., Engels, H., Cremer, K. & Mangold, E. & 181 others, Peters, S., Trautmann, J., Mester, J. L., Guillen Sacoto, M. J., Person, R., McDonnell, P. P., Cohen, S. R., Lusk, L., Cohen, A. S. A., Le Pichon, J. B., Pastinen, T., Zhou, D., Engleman, K., Racine, C., Faivre, L., Moutton, S., Denommé-Pichon, A. S., Koh, H. Y., Poduri, A., Bolton, J., Knopp, C., Julia Suh, D. S., Maier, A., Toosi, M. B., Karimiani, E. G., Maroofian, R., Schaefer, G. B., Ramakumaran, V., Vasudevan, P., Prasad, C., Osmond, M., Schuhmann, S., Vasileiou, G., Russ-Hall, S., Scheffer, I. E., Carvill, G. L., Mefford, H., Acosta, M. T., Adam, M., Adams, D. R., Alvarez, R. L., Alvey, J., Amendola, L., Andrews, A., Ashley, E. A., Bacino, C. A., Bademci, G., Balasubramanyam, A., Baldridge, D., Bale, J., Bamshad, M., Barbouth, D., Bayrak-Toydemir, P., Beck, A., Beggs, A. H., Behrens, E., Bejerano, G., Bellen, H. J., Bennett, J., Berg-Rood, B., Bernstein, J. A., Berry, G. T., Bican, A., Bivona, S., Blue, E., Bohnsack, J., Bonner, D., Botto, L., Boyd, B., Briere, L. C., Brown, G., Burke, E. A., Burrage, L. C., Butte, M. J., Byers, P., Byrd, W. E., Carey, J., Carrasquillo, O., Cassini, T., Chang, T. C. P., Chanprasert, S., Chao, H. T., Chinn, I., Clark, G. D., Coakley, T. R., Cobban, L. A., Cogan, J. D., Coggins, M., Cole, F. S., Colley, H. A., Cope, H., Corona, R., Craigen, W. J., Crouse, A. B., Cunningham, M., D'Souza, P., Dai, H., Dasari, S., Davis, J., Dayal, J. G., Dell'Angelica, E. C., Dipple, K., Doherty, D., Dorrani, N., Doss, A. L., Douine, E. D., Earl, D., Eckstein, D. J., Emrick, L. T., Eng, C. M., Falk, M., Fieg, E. L., Fisher, P. G., Fogel, B. L., Forghani, I., Gahl, W. A., Glass, I., Gochuico, B., Goddard, P. C., Godfrey, R. A., Golden-Grant, K., Grajewski, A., Hadley, D., Hahn, S., Halley, M. C., Hamid, R., Hassey, K., Hayes, N., High, F., Hing, A., Hisama, F. M., Holm, I. A., Hom, J., Horike-Pyne, M., Huang, A., Hutchison, S., Introne, W., Isasi, R., Izumi, K., Jamal, F., Jarvik, G. P., Jarvik, J., Jayadev, S., Jean-Marie, O., Jobanputra, V., Karaviti, L., Ketkar, S., Kiley, D., Kilich, G., Kobren, S. N., Kohane, I. S., Kohler, J. N., Korrick, S., Kozuira, M., Krakow, D., Krasnewich, D. M., Kravets, E., Lalani, S. R., Lam, B., Lam, C., Lanpher, B. C., Lanza, I. R., LeBlanc, K., Lee, B. H., Levitt, R., Liu, P., Liu, X. Z., Longo, N., Loo, S. K., Loscalzo, J., Maas, R. L., Macnamara, E. F., MacRae, C. A., Maduro, V. V., Maghiro, A. S., Mahoney, R., Pak, S., Schedl, T., Shin, J., Solnica-Krezel, L. & Wambach, J., Jan 4 2024, In: American journal of human genetics. 111, 1, p. 96-118 23 p.

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    4 Scopus citations
  • Biallelic CRELD1 variants cause a multisystem syndrome, including neurodevelopmental phenotypes, cardiac dysrhythmias, and frequent infections

    Deciphering Developmental Disorders, Genomics England Research Consortium, Undiagnosed Disease Network, Jeffries, L., Mis, E. K., McWalter, K., Donkervoort, S., Brodsky, N. N., Carpier, J. M., Ji, W., Ionita, C., Roy, B., Morrow, J. S., Darbinyan, A., Iyer, K., Aul, R. B., Banka, S., Chao, K. R., Cobbold, L. & Cohen, S. & 183 others, Custodio, H. M., Drummond-Borg, M., Elmslie, F., Finanger, E., Hainline, B. E., Helbig, I., Hewson, S., Hu, Y., Jackson, A., Josifova, D., Konstantino, M., Leach, M. E., Mak, B., McCormick, D., McGee, E., Nelson, S., Nguyen, J., Nugent, K., Ortega, L., Goodkin, H. P., Roeder, E., Roy, S., Sapp, K., Saade, D., Sisodiya, S. M., Stals, K., Towner, S., Wilson, W., Borras, S., Clark, C., Dean, J., Miedzybrodzka, Z., Ross, A., Tennant, S., Dabir, T., Donnelly, D., Humphreys, M., Magee, A., McConnell, V., McKee, S., McNerlan, S., Morrison, P. J., Rea, G., Stewart, F., Cole, T., Cooper, N., Cooper-Charles, L., Cox, H., Islam, L., Jarvis, J., Keelagher, R., Lim, D., McMullan, D., Morton, J., Naik, S., O'Driscoll, M., Ong, K. R., Osio, D., Ragge, N., Turton, S., Vogt, J., Williams, D., Bodek, S., Donaldson, A., Hills, A., Low, K., Newbury-Ecob, R., Norman, A. M., Roberts, E., Scurr, I., Smithson, S., Tooley, M., Abbs, S., Armstrong, R., Dunn, C., Holden, S., Park, S. M., Paterson, J., Raymond, L., Reid, E., Sandford, R., Simonic, I., Tischkowitz, M., Woods, G., Bradley, L., Comerford, J., Green, A., Lynch, S., McQuaid, S., Mullaney, B., Berg, J., Goudie, D., Mavrak, E., McLean, J., McWilliam, C., Reavey, E., Azam, T., Cleary, E., Jackson, A., Lam, W., Lampe, A., Moore, D., Porteous, M., Baple, E., Baptista, J., Brewer, C., Castle, B., Kivuva, E., Owens, M., Rankin, J., Shaw-Smith, C., Turner, C., Turnpenny, P., Tysoe, C., Bradley, T., Davidson, R., Gardiner, C., Joss, S., Kinning, E., Longman, C., McGowan, R., Murday, V., Pilz, D., Tobias, E., Whiteford, M., Williams, N., Barnicoat, A., Clement, E., Faravelli, F., Hurst, J., Jenkins, L., Jones, W., Ajith Kumar, V. K., Lees, M., Loughlin, S., Male, A., Morrogh, D., Rosser, E., Scott, R., Wilson, L., Beleza, A., Deshpande, C., Flinter, F., Holder, M., Irving, M., Izatt, L., Mohammed, S., Molenda, A., Robert, L., Roworth, W., Ruddy, D., Ryten, M., Yau, S., Bennett, C., Blyth, M., Campbell, J., Coates, A., Dobbie, A., Hewitt, S., Hobson, E., Jackson, E., Jewell, R., Kraus, A., Prescott, K., Sheridan, E., Thomson, J., Bradshaw, K., Dixit, A., Eason, J., Haines, R., Harrison, R., Mutch, S., Sarkar, A., Searle, C., Shannon, N., Sharif, A., Baldridge, D., Cole, F. S., Pak, S., Schedl, T., Shin, J., Solnica-Krezel, L. & Wambach, J., Feb 2024, In: Genetics in Medicine. 26, 2, 101023.

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  • Brain malformations and seizures by impaired chaperonin function of TRiC

    Kraft, F., Rodriguez-Aliaga, P., Yuan, W., Franken, L., Zajt, K., Hasan, D., Lee, T. T., Flex, E., Hentschel, A., Innes, A. M., Zheng, B., Suh, D. S. J., Knopp, C., Lausberg, E., Krause, J., Zhang, X., Trapane, P., Carroll, R., McClatchey, M. & Fry, A. E. & 67 others, Wang, L., Giesselmann, S., Hoang, H., Baldridge, D., Silverman, G., Radio, F. C., Bertini, E., Ciolfi, A., Blood, K. A., de Sainte Agathe, J. M., Charles, P., Bergant, G., Čuturilo, G., Peterlin, B., Diderich, K., Streff, H., Robak, L., Oegema, R., van Binsbergen, E., Herriges, J., Saunders, C. J., Maier, A., Wolking, S., Weber, Y., Lochmüller, H., Meyer, S., Aleman, A., Polavarapu, K., Nicolas, G., Goldenberg, A., Guyant, L., Pope, K., Hehmeyer, K. N., Monaghan, K. G., Quade, A., Smol, T., Caumes, R., Duerinckx, S., Depondt, C., Van Paesschen, W., Rieubland, C., Poloni, C., Guipponi, M., Arcioni, S., Meuwissen, M., Jansen, A. C., Rosenblum, J., Haack, T. B., Bertrand, M., Gerstner, L., Magg, J., Riess, O., Schulz, J. B., Wagner, N., Wiesmann, M., Weis, J., Eggermann, T., Begemann, M., Roos, A., Häusler, M., Schedl, T., Tartaglia, M., Bremer, J., Pak, S., Frydman, J., Elbracht, M. & Kurth, I., Nov 1 2024, In: Journal of Bio-X Research. 386, 6721, p. 516-525 10 p.

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    2 Scopus citations
  • Cohort Expansion and Genotype-Phenotype Analysis of RAB11A-Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder

    Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Nov 2024, In: Pediatric Neurology. 160, p. 45-53 9 p.

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