Gary Banker

19.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
111 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Gary Banker is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Banker has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 58 papers in Molecular Biology and 40 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Gary Banker's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (25 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (24 papers). Gary Banker is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (25 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (24 papers). Gary Banker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Israel. Gary Banker's co-authors include Kimberly Goslin, Susan M. Kaech, William Cowan, Ann Marie Craig, Oswald Steward, Carl W. Cotman, Peter W. Baas, Mark M. Black, Stefanie Kaech and Pietro De Camilli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gary Banker

111 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Culturing hippocampal neurons

2006 1.3k citations Gary Banker et al. profile →
Culturing nerve cells

1998 1.0k citations Gary Banker, Kimberly Goslin MIT Press eBooks profile →
Rat hippocampal neurons in dispersed cell culture

1977 985 citations Gary Banker et al. profile →
Neuronal Polarity

1994 595 citations Gary Banker et al. profile →
Polarity orientation of microtubules in hippocampal neurons: uniformity in the axon and nonuniformity in the dendrite.

1988 576 citations Gary Banker et al. profile →
Trophic Interactions Between Astroglial Cells and Hippocampal Neurons in Culture

1980 557 citations Gary Banker profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Banker United States	66	8.8k	8.3k	5.5k	2.7k	1.5k	111	15.9k
Carlos G. Dotti Germany	67	5.5k 0.6×	8.8k 1.1×	5.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	4.4k 3.0×	172	16.0k
Christine E. Holt United Kingdom	67	8.2k 0.9×	10.0k 1.2×	4.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	591 0.4×	146	15.3k
Patrick Doherty United Kingdom	62	7.0k 0.8×	6.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	683 0.5×	172	13.3k
Frank S. Walsh United Kingdom	62	5.6k 0.6×	8.2k 1.0×	2.3k 0.4×	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	169	13.1k
Casper C. Hoogenraad Netherlands	78	6.3k 0.7×	11.3k 1.4×	9.9k 1.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	227	20.4k
Nancy Y. Ip Hong Kong	77	10.9k 1.2×	11.0k 1.3×	2.1k 0.4×	5.2k 1.9×	2.8k 1.9×	314	23.8k
Antoine Triller France	75	9.6k 1.1×	10.1k 1.2×	3.0k 0.5×	868 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	220	18.2k
David D. Ginty United States	79	12.9k 1.5×	12.6k 1.5×	3.4k 0.6×	3.0k 1.1×	3.6k 2.5×	145	24.5k
Melitta Schachner Germany	66	7.8k 0.9×	5.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.5×	3.9k 1.4×	900 0.6×	221	13.8k
Wen‐Cheng Xiong United States	72	5.1k 0.6×	9.7k 1.2×	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	241	15.9k

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Yang, Rui, et al.. (2019). A novel strategy to visualize vesicle‐bound kinesins reveals the diversity of kinesin‐mediated transport. Traffic. 20(11). 851–866. 27 indexed citations

Banker, Gary, et al.. (2017). Anterograde Transport of Rab4-Associated Vesicles Regulates Synapse Organization in Drosophila. Cell Reports. 18(10). 2452–2463. 27 indexed citations

Fang, Cheng, Helena Decker, & Gary Banker. (2014). Axonal transport plays a crucial role in mediating the axon-protective effects of NmNAT. Neurobiology of Disease. 68. 78–90. 15 indexed citations

Barbati, Alexander C., Cheng Fang, Gary Banker, & Brian J. Kirby. (2012). Culture of primary rat hippocampal neurons: design, analysis, and optimization of a microfluidic device for cell seeding, coherent growth, and solute delivery. Biomedical Microdevices. 15(1). 97–108. 7 indexed citations

Hammond, Jennetta W., et al.. (2009). Posttranslational Modifications of Tubulin and the Polarized Transport of Kinesin-1 in Neurons. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(4). 572–583. 226 indexed citations

Cohen, Andrew R., Chris S. Bjornsson, Sally Temple, Gary Banker, & Badrinath Roysam. (2009). Automatic Summarization of Changes in Biological Image Sequences Using Algorithmic Information Theory. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 31(8). 1386–1403. 33 indexed citations

Su, Kimmy, Gary Banker, Dennis Bourdette, & Michael Forte. (2009). Axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis: The mitochondrial hypothesis. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 9(5). 411–417. 120 indexed citations

Soderling, Scott H., Eric S. Guire, Stefanie Kaech, et al.. (2007). A WAVE-1 and WRP Signaling Complex Regulates Spine Density, Synaptic Plasticity, and Memory. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(2). 355–365. 174 indexed citations

Withers, Ginger S., et al.. (2006). Effects of substrate geometry on growth cone behavior and axon branching. Journal of Neurobiology. 66(11). 1183–1194. 37 indexed citations

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Silverman, Michael, et al.. (2005). Motifs that mediate dendritic targeting in hippocampal neurons: A comparison with basolateral targeting signals. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 29(2). 173–180. 26 indexed citations

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Withers, Ginger S., Dennis Higgins, Marc Charette, & Gary Banker. (2000). Bone morphogenetic protein‐7 enhances dendritic growth and receptivity to innervation in cultured hippocampal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 12(1). 106–116. 109 indexed citations

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Burack, Michelle A., Michael Silverman, & Gary Banker. (2000). The Role of Selective Transport in Neuronal Protein Sorting. Neuron. 26(2). 465–472. 228 indexed citations

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Shogomori, Hidehiko, Michelle A. Burack, Gary Banker, & Anthony H. Futerman. (1999). Gangliosides GM1 and GD1b are not polarized in mature hippocampal neurons. FEBS Letters. 458(2). 107–111. 5 indexed citations

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Banker, Gary & Kimberly Goslin. (1998). Culturing nerve cells. MIT Press eBooks. 1049 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jareb, Mark & Gary Banker. (1998). The Polarized Sorting of Membrane Proteins Expressed in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons Using Viral Vectors. Neuron. 20(5). 855–867. 150 indexed citations

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Withers, Ginger S., Julia M. George, Gary Banker, & David F. Clayton. (1997). Delayed localization of synelfin (synuclein, NACP) to presynaptic terminals in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. Developmental Brain Research. 99(1). 87–94. 195 indexed citations

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Benson, Deanna L., James W. Mandell, Gerry Shaw, & Gary Banker. (1996). Compartmentation of alpha-internexin and neurofilament triplet proteins in cultured hippocampal neurons. Journal of Neurocytology. 25(1). 181–196. 62 indexed citations

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Kleiman, Robin J., Gary Banker, & Oswald Steward. (1992). Temperature-dependent blockade of nucleocytoplasmic transport of newly synthesized RNA in neurons. Molecular Brain Research. 13(1-2). 103–109. 2 indexed citations

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Steward, Oswald & Gary Banker. (1992). Getting the message from the gene to the synapse: sorting and intracellular transport of RNA in neurons. Trends in Neurosciences. 15(5). 180–186. 212 indexed citations

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Kleiman, Robin J., Gary Banker, & Oswald Steward. (1990). Differential subcellular localization of particular mRNAs in hippocampal neurons in culture. Neuron. 5(6). 821–830. 188 indexed citations

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