Mandy Koopman

This study identifies that rebalancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs in C. elegans restores movement in a TDP-43 toxicity model by synergizing neurotransmitter system enhancements.

The paper identifies MOAG-4/SERF as modifiers of amyloid formation through charge complementation, showing that charge interactions drive protein aggregation and toxicity.

The paper introduces an affordable optogenetic device called OptoArm for manipulating C. elegans worms, showing that cholinergic neurons decline with age while GABAergic neurons and muscle cells remain resilient.