Alison Forrester

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alison Forrester is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Forrester has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cell Biology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alison Forrester's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (5 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (5 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers). Alison Forrester is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (5 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (5 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers). Alison Forrester collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and France. Alison Forrester's co-authors include Carmine Settembre, Maria Antonietta De Matteis, Rossella Venditti, Diego L. Medina, Sandro Montefusco, Andrea Ballabio, Rosario Rizzuto, Qiong Gao, Simone Di Paola and Haoxing Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alison Forrester

12 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB

2015 1.1k citations Diego L. Medina, Simone Di Paola et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

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Sandro Montefusco Italy

Rossella Venditti Italy

Elena Polishchuk Italy

Jlenia Monfregola Italy

Bindi Patel United States

Ivana Peluso Italy

Christina McPhee United States

Piotr Szyniarowski Denmark

Sebastian Alers Germany

Robert Köchl United Kingdom

Sandro Montefusco Italy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alison Forrester

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison Forrester

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alison Forrester. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alison Forrester based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alison Forrester. Alison Forrester is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Farhan, Hesso, Ishier Raote, Felix Campelo, et al.. (2025). Towards a unified framework for the function of endoplasmic reticulum exit sites. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 26(12). 957–969.

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Depta, Laura, Marko Cigler, Julien Barbier, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of OSBP blocks retrograde trafficking by inducing partial Golgi degradation. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(2). 203–214. 6 indexed citations

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Robinson, Claire M., et al.. (2024). ER exit in physiology and disease. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 11. 1352970–1352970. 4 indexed citations

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Cigler, Marko, Hana Imrichová, Fabian Frommelt, et al.. (2024). Orpinolide disrupts a leukemic dependency on cholesterol transport by inhibiting OSBP. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(2). 193–202. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Yu, Nassim Mahtal, Alison Forrester, et al.. (2023). Autophagic Degradation Is Involved in Cell Protection against Ricin Toxin. Toxins. 15(5). 304–304. 6 indexed citations

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Forrester, Alison, Maria Daniela Garcia-Castillo, Collin Bachert, et al.. (2020). Functional dissection of the retrograde Shiga toxin trafficking inhibitor Retro-2. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(3). 327–336. 31 indexed citations

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Settembre, Carmine, Laura Cinque, Rosa Bartolomeo, et al.. (2018). Defective collagen proteostasis and matrix formation in the pathogenesis of lysosomal storage disorders. Matrix Biology. 71-72. 283–293. 21 indexed citations

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Forrester, Alison, Chiara De Leonibus, Paolo Grumati, et al.. (2018). A selective ER ‐phagy exerts procollagen quality control via a Calnexin‐ FAM 134B complex. The EMBO Journal. 38(2). 190 indexed citations

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Bartolomeo, Rosa, Laura Cinque, Chiara De Leonibus, et al.. (2017). mTORC1 hyperactivation arrests bone growth in lysosomal storage disorders by suppressing autophagy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(10). 3717–3729. 74 indexed citations

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Medina, Diego L., Simone Di Paola, Ivana Peluso, et al.. (2015). Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB. Nature Cell Biology. 17(3). 288–299. 1060 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cinque, Laura, Alison Forrester, Rosa Bartolomeo, et al.. (2015). FGF signalling regulates bone growth through autophagy. Nature. 528(7581). 272–275. 163 indexed citations

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Forrester, Alison, Martina S. Elias, Emma Woodward, et al.. (2013). Induction of a chloracne phenotype in an epidermal equivalent model by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is dependent on aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation and is not reproduced by aryl hydrocarbon receptor knock down. Journal of Dermatological Science. 73(1). 10–22. 19 indexed citations

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Leach, Matthew C., Alison Forrester, & Paul Flecknell. (2009). Influence of preferred foodstuffs on the antinociceptive effects of orally administered buprenorphine in laboratory rats. Laboratory Animals. 44(1). 54–58. 24 indexed citations

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