James Ashley

3.8k total citations
47 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

James Ashley is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Ashley has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in James Ashley's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (17 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (8 papers). James Ashley is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (17 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (8 papers). James Ashley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Poland. James Ashley's co-authors include Vivian Budnik, Bulent Ataman, Romina Barría, Preethi Ramachandran, J. H. Webb, Travis Thomson, Yihang Li, Lee G. Fradkin, Stephan J. Sigrist and Michael Gorczyca and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James Ashley

43 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Ashley United States 21 1.7k 1.1k 696 292 257 47 2.7k
Bing Ye United States 22 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 871 1.3× 256 0.9× 102 0.4× 57 2.4k
Motojiro Yoshihara United States 19 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 681 1.0× 175 0.6× 101 0.4× 27 1.8k
Tomoko Ohyama United States 23 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 510 0.7× 497 1.7× 77 0.3× 40 2.5k
Atsushi Yoshiki Japan 35 2.2k 1.3× 987 0.9× 576 0.8× 839 2.9× 268 1.0× 108 4.2k
Jun Yao United States 33 1.5k 0.9× 886 0.8× 529 0.8× 344 1.2× 112 0.4× 103 3.6k
Christel Genoud Switzerland 30 1.7k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 301 0.4× 178 0.6× 343 1.3× 57 3.3k
Hanh T. Nguyen United States 28 2.6k 1.5× 809 0.7× 281 0.4× 647 2.2× 99 0.4× 69 3.9k
Masahito Yamagata United States 40 3.1k 1.8× 2.3k 2.1× 1.8k 2.6× 412 1.4× 174 0.7× 59 5.0k
Bulent Ataman United States 12 1.1k 0.6× 612 0.6× 411 0.6× 287 1.0× 115 0.4× 14 1.6k
Pablo Pérez‐Piñera United States 35 3.5k 2.0× 398 0.4× 425 0.6× 694 2.4× 285 1.1× 78 4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Ashley

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ashley, James & Robert A. Carrillo. (2024). Labeling of Cell Surface Proteins at theDrosophilaLarval Neuromuscular Junction Using Binding Partner Peptides. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2025(7). pdb.prot108501–pdb.prot108501. 2 indexed citations
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Ashley, James & Robert A. Carrillo. (2024). Using the Proximity Ligation Assay to Visualize Colocalization of Proteins at theDrosophilaLarval Neuromuscular Junction. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2025(7). pdb.prot108502–pdb.prot108502. 1 indexed citations
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Ashley, James & Robert A. Carrillo. (2024). Cell Ablation Techniques for the LarvalDrosophilaNeuromuscular System. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2025(7). pdb.prot108503–pdb.prot108503. 1 indexed citations
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Ashley, James, et al.. (2024). Neuronal Wiring Receptors Dprs and DIPs Are GPI Anchored and This Modification Contributes to Their Cell Surface Organization. eNeuro. 11(2). ENEURO.0184–23.2023. 1 indexed citations
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Ashley, James, et al.. (2021). Structural and Functional Synaptic Plasticity Induced by Convergent Synapse Loss in the Drosophila Neuromuscular Circuit. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(7). 1401–1417. 17 indexed citations
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Ashley, James, et al.. (2018). Retrovirus-like Gag Protein Arc1 Binds RNA and Traffics across Synaptic Boutons. Cell. 172(1-2). 262–274.e11. 312 indexed citations
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Ashley, James & Vivian Budnik. (2017). A Tale of Two Inputs. Neuron. 93(6). 1245–1247. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yihang, Linda Hassinger, Travis Thomson, et al.. (2016). Lamin Mutations Accelerate Aging via Defective Export of Mitochondrial mRNAs through Nuclear Envelope Budding. Current Biology. 26(15). 2052–2059. 25 indexed citations
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Barría, Romina, James Ashley, Katharine C. Abruzzi, et al.. (2014). Glial Wingless/Wnt Regulates Glutamate Receptor Clustering and Synaptic Physiology at theDrosophilaNeuromuscular Junction. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(8). 2910–2920. 60 indexed citations
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Li, Yihang, et al.. (2013). Regulation of Postsynaptic Retrograde Signaling by Presynaptic Exosome Release. Neuron. 77(6). 1039–1046. 193 indexed citations
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Speese, Sean D., James Ashley, Vahbiz Jokhi, et al.. (2012). Nuclear Envelope Budding Enables Large Ribonucleoprotein Particle Export during Synaptic Wnt Signaling. Cell. 149(4). 832–846. 257 indexed citations
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Ashley, James, et al.. (2012). Integration of a Retrograde Signal during Synapse Formation by Glia-Secreted TGF-β Ligand. Current Biology. 22(19). 1831–1838. 92 indexed citations
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Koon, Alex Chun, James Ashley, Romina Barría, et al.. (2010). Autoregulatory and paracrine control of synaptic and behavioral plasticity by octopaminergic signaling. Nature Neuroscience. 14(2). 190–199. 100 indexed citations
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Ramachandran, Preethi, Romina Barría, James Ashley, & Vivian Budnik. (2009). A critical step for postsynaptic F‐actin organization: Regulation of Baz/Par‐3 localization by aPKC and PTEN. Developmental Neurobiology. 69(9). 583–602. 37 indexed citations
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Ashley, James, et al.. (2009). Glia and Muscle Sculpt Neuromuscular Arbors by Engulfing Destabilized Synaptic Boutons and Shed Presynaptic Debris. PLoS Biology. 7(8). e1000184–e1000184. 121 indexed citations
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Ataman, Bulent, James Ashley, Michael Gorczyca, et al.. (2008). Rapid Activity-Dependent Modifications in Synaptic Structure and Function Require Bidirectional Wnt Signaling. Neuron. 57(5). 705–718. 216 indexed citations
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Gorczyca, David, James Ashley, Sean D. Speese, et al.. (2007). Postsynaptic Membrane Addition Depends on the Discs-Large-Interacting t-SNARE Gtaxin. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(5). 1033–1044. 42 indexed citations
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Li, Jingjun, James Ashley, Vivian Budnik, & Manzoor A. Bhat. (2007). Crucial Role of Drosophila Neurexin in Proper Active Zone Apposition to Postsynaptic Densities, Synaptic Growth, and Synaptic Transmission. Neuron. 55(5). 741–755. 132 indexed citations
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Ashley, James, Mary Packard, Bulent Ataman, & Vivian Budnik. (2005). Fasciclin II Signals New Synapse Formation through Amyloid Precursor Protein and the Scaffolding Protein dX11/Mint. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(25). 5943–5955. 128 indexed citations
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Ashley, James. (2005). Auditory backward inhibition can ruin a concert hall. 4. 330–334. 3 indexed citations

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