Deepak Nair

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Deepak Nair is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Deepak Nair has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 16 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Deepak Nair's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (9 papers). Deepak Nair is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (9 papers). Deepak Nair collaborates with scholars based in India, France and Germany. Deepak Nair's co-authors include Jean‐Baptiste Sibarita, Daniel Choquet, Grégory Giannone, Eric Hosy, Jennifer D. Petersen, Mini Jose, Adel Kechkar, Cécile Leduc, Mike Heilemann and Olivier Rossier and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Deepak Nair

41 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

Super-Resolution Imaging Reveals That AMPA Receptors Inside Synapses Are Dynamically Organized in Nanodomains Regulated by PSD95

2013 437 citations Deepak Nair, Eric Hosy et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deepak Nair India	18	816	590	577	464	222	43	1.8k
Christophe Leterrier France	32	1.3k 1.7×	847 1.4×	1.1k 2.0×	1.1k 2.3×	358 1.6×	65	3.3k
Ulf Matti Germany	28	1.4k 1.7×	703 1.2×	561 1.0×	1.2k 2.6×	340 1.5×	39	2.5k
Florian Levet France	20	823 1.0×	710 1.2×	620 1.1×	157 0.3×	289 1.3×	35	1.7k
Christian G. Specht France	28	1.7k 2.1×	447 0.8×	1.3k 2.2×	551 1.2×	168 0.8×	45	3.0k
Johanna Bückers Germany	13	807 1.0×	392 0.7×	365 0.6×	470 1.0×	167 0.8×	17	1.5k
C. Shan Xu United States	21	1.5k 1.8×	499 0.8×	476 0.8×	695 1.5×	454 2.0×	49	3.0k
Harold D. MacGillavry Netherlands	21	1.4k 1.7×	313 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	364 0.8×	145 0.7×	40	2.6k
Lydia Danglot France	26	1.3k 1.5×	260 0.4×	601 1.0×	625 1.3×	40 0.2×	52	2.4k
Paolo Annibale Germany	25	1.1k 1.3×	488 0.8×	281 0.5×	128 0.3×	205 0.9×	51	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nair, Deepak, et al.. (2025). AMPA receptors in the evolving synapse: structure, function, and disease implications. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. 17. 1661342–1661342.

Fukata, Yuko, Masaki Fukata, Harold D. MacGillavry, Deepak Nair, & Eric Hosy. (2024). Celebrating the Birthday of AMPA Receptor Nanodomains: Illuminating the Nanoscale Organization of Excitatory Synapses with 10 Nanocandles. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(23). e2104232024–e2104232024. 5 indexed citations

Bergam, Ptissam, et al.. (2024). Biogenesis of specialized lysosomes in differentiated keratinocytes relies on close apposition with the Golgi apparatus. Cell Death and Disease. 15(7). 496–496. 4 indexed citations

Setty, Subba Rao Gangi, et al.. (2023). Real-time heterogeneity of supramolecular assembly of amyloid precursor protein is modulated by an endocytic risk factor PICALM. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 80(10). 295–295. 2 indexed citations

Thakur, Chetan Singh, et al.. (2023). Achieving nanoscale precision using neuromorphic localization microscopy. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(4). 380–389. 12 indexed citations

Kechkar, Adel, Corey Butler, Narendrakumar Ramanan, et al.. (2022). Nanoscale regulation of Ca2+ dependent phase transitions and real-time dynamics of SAP97/hDLG. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4236–4236. 7 indexed citations

Nair, Deepak, et al.. (2022). A Ribosomal Perspective on Neuronal Local Protein Synthesis. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 15. 823135–823135. 19 indexed citations

Nair, Deepak, et al.. (2021). Neuronal PET tracers for Alzheimer's disease. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 587. 58–62. 13 indexed citations

Gershoni‐Emek, Noga, Iliana Barrera, Siddharth Nanguneri, et al.. (2020). Measuring mRNA translation in neuronal processes and somata by tRNA-FRET. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(6). e32–e32. 14 indexed citations

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Nair, Deepak, et al.. (2020). Does Altered Probability of Real Time Diffusional Collisions of Membrane Molecules Trigger or Delay Alzheimers Disease. 5(5). 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Sisodia, Sangram S., Mini Jose, Sathish Kumar, et al.. (2020). Alteration in synaptic nanoscale organization dictates amyloidogenic processing in Alzheimer's disease. iScience. 24(1). 101924–101924. 14 indexed citations

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Nair, Deepak, et al.. (2020). mEosBrite Are Bright Variants of mEos3.2 Developed by Semirational Protein Engineering. Journal of Fluorescence. 30(3). 703–715. 2 indexed citations

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Kommaddi, Reddy Peera, Smitha Karunakaran, Siddharth Nanguneri, et al.. (2019). Glutaredoxin1 Diminishes Amyloid Beta-Mediated Oxidation of F-Actin and Reverses Cognitive Deficits in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 31(18). 1321–1338. 31 indexed citations

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Kommaddi, Reddy Peera, Debajyoti Das, Smitha Karunakaran, et al.. (2017). Aβ mediates F-actin disassembly in dendritic spines leading to cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(5). 1085–1099. 110 indexed citations

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Chazeau, Anaël, Amine Mehidi, Deepak Nair, et al.. (2014). Nanoscale segregation of actin nucleation and elongation factors determines dendritic spine protrusion. The EMBO Journal. 33(23). 2745–2764. 105 indexed citations

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Heidbreder, Meike, Sebastian Malkusch, Darius Widera, et al.. (2012). TNF-alpha alpha influences the lateral dynamics of TNF receptor I in living cells. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 8 indexed citations

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Izeddin, Ignacio, Jérôme Boulanger, Victor Racine, et al.. (2012). Wavelet analysis for single molecule localization microscopy. Optics Express. 20(3). 2081–2081. 135 indexed citations

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Rossier, Olivier, Jean‐Baptiste Sibarita, Cécile Leduc, et al.. (2012). Integrins β1 and β3 exhibit distinct dynamic nanoscale organizations inside focal adhesions. Nature Cell Biology. 14(10). 1057–1067. 289 indexed citations

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Heidbreder, Meike, Sebastian Malkusch, Darius Widera, et al.. (2012). TNF-α influences the lateral dynamics of TNF receptor I in living cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1823(10). 1984–1989. 25 indexed citations

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Jose, Mini, Deepak Nair, Wilko D. Altrock, et al.. (2007). Investigating Interactions Mediated by the Presynaptic Protein Bassoon in Living Cells by Foerster's Resonance Energy Transfer and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy. Biophysical Journal. 94(4). 1483–1496. 16 indexed citations

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