Lachlan Whitehead

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Lachlan Whitehead is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lachlan Whitehead has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Immunology and 14 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Lachlan Whitehead's work include Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions (7 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (7 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (7 papers). Lachlan Whitehead is often cited by papers focused on Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions (7 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (7 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (7 papers). Lachlan Whitehead collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Lachlan Whitehead's co-authors include Kelly L. Rogers, James M. Murphy, Gordon K. Smyth, Christopher J. Tonkin, Seth L. Masters, Andreas Strasser, Geoffrey J. Lindeman, Bhupinder Pal, Jane E. Visvader and Lisa Lindqvist and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lachlan Whitehead

64 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Active MLKL triggers the NLRP3 inflammasome in a cell-intrinsic manner

2017 377 citations Stephanie A. Conos, Kaiwen Chen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lachlan Whitehead Australia	28	1.2k	733	404	397	354	66	2.8k
Wilson Wong Australia	19	648 0.5×	556 0.8×	408 1.0×	157 0.4×	188 0.5×	36	1.9k
Adam Round France	34	2.5k 2.0×	431 0.6×	166 0.4×	180 0.5×	278 0.8×	80	3.9k
Michael Hausmann Germany	33	2.2k 1.8×	390 0.5×	75 0.2×	283 0.7×	289 0.8×	223	4.0k
Zhe Chen United States	42	3.6k 2.9×	736 1.0×	112 0.3×	498 1.3×	354 1.0×	123	6.0k
Maria Harkiolaki United Kingdom	20	941 0.8×	383 0.5×	102 0.3×	189 0.5×	146 0.4×	51	1.8k
Steeve Boulant Germany	39	2.7k 2.2×	1.6k 2.2×	254 0.6×	444 1.1×	1.6k 4.4×	94	6.9k
Niels Volkmann United States	40	3.2k 2.6×	512 0.7×	101 0.3×	171 0.4×	205 0.6×	94	6.1k
Claudio Ciferri United States	28	3.5k 2.9×	655 0.9×	170 0.4×	384 1.0×	679 1.9×	47	4.8k
David J. Vaux United Kingdom	37	2.3k 1.8×	710 1.0×	103 0.3×	182 0.5×	424 1.2×	84	4.1k
Alexis Rohou United States	18	3.8k 3.1×	319 0.4×	113 0.3×	242 0.6×	319 0.9×	27	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Lachlan Whitehead

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lachlan Whitehead

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lachlan Whitehead. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lachlan Whitehead 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 Lachlan Whitehead. Lachlan Whitehead is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Doggett, Karen, Stephen Mieruszynski, Benjamin B. Williams, et al.. (2025). Inhibition of the minor spliceosome restricts the growth of a broad spectrum of cancers. EMBO Reports. 26(15). 3937–3969.

O’Reilly, Lorraine A., John Silke, Christopher Angel, et al.. (2025). Convolutional neural networks for accurate real-time diagnosis of oral epithelial dysplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma using high-resolution in vivo confocal microscopy. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 2555–2555. 4 indexed citations

McRae, Helen M., Maria Bergamasco, Alexandra L. Garnham, et al.. (2024). Loss of PHF6 causes spontaneous seizures, enlarged brain ventricles and altered transcription in the cortex of a mouse model of the Börjeson–Forssman–Lehmann intellectual disability syndrome. PLoS Genetics. 20(10). e1011428–e1011428.

Keenan, Christine R., Hannah D. Coughlan, Andrew Keniry, et al.. (2024). Suv39h-catalyzed H3K9me3 is critical for euchromatic genome organization and the maintenance of gene transcription. Genome Research. 34(4). 556–571. 4 indexed citations

Voigt, Fabian F., Thomas Naert, Sven Hildebrand, et al.. (2023). Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope. Nature Biotechnology. 42(1). 65–71. 10 indexed citations

Doggett, Karen, Stephen Mieruszynski, Lachlan Whitehead, et al.. (2023). ahctf1 and kras mutations combine to amplify oncogenic stress and restrict liver overgrowth in a zebrafish model of hepatocellular carcinoma. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations

Li, Kunlun, Lachlan Whitehead, Andrew J. Kueh, et al.. (2022). SOCS2 regulation of growth hormone signaling requires a canonical interaction with phosphotyrosine. Bioscience Reports. 42(12). 3 indexed citations

Samson, André L., Cheree Fitzgibbon, Joanne M. Hildebrand, et al.. (2021). A toolbox for imaging RIPK1, RIPK3, and MLKL in mouse and human cells. Cell Death and Differentiation. 28(7). 2126–2144. 43 indexed citations

Hickey, Peter F., Waruni Abeysekera, Lachlan Whitehead, et al.. (2021). The histone acetyltransferase HBO1 promotes efficient tip cell sprouting during angiogenesis. Development. 148(20). 5 indexed citations

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Seizova, Simona, Alexandra L. Garnham, Stefanie M. Bader, et al.. (2021). Transcriptional modification of host cells harboring Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites prevents IFN gamma-mediated cell death. Cell Host & Microbe. 30(2). 232–247.e6. 18 indexed citations

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Poh, Ashleigh R., Amy R. Dwyer, Moritz F. Eissmann, et al.. (2020). Inhibition of the SRC Kinase HCK Impairs STAT3-Dependent Gastric Tumor Growth in Mice. Cancer Immunology Research. 8(4). 428–435. 24 indexed citations

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Whitehead, Lachlan, Vickie Wong, Zheng He, et al.. (2020). Blocking endothelial apoptosis revascularizes the retina in a model of ischemic retinopathy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(8). 4235–4251. 17 indexed citations

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Seillet, Cyril, Kylie Luong, Julie Tellier, et al.. (2019). The neuropeptide VIP confers anticipatory mucosal immunity by regulating ILC3 activity. Nature Immunology. 21(2). 168–177. 164 indexed citations

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Conos, Stephanie A., Kaiwen Chen, Dominic De Nardo, et al.. (2017). Active MLKL triggers the NLRP3 inflammasome in a cell-intrinsic manner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(6). E961–E969. 377 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lopaticki, Sash, Annie Yang, Alan John, et al.. (2017). Protein O-fucosylation in Plasmodium falciparum ensures efficient infection of mosquito and vertebrate hosts. Nature Communications. 8(1). 561–561. 50 indexed citations

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Lindeman, Geoffrey J., Emma Nolan, Daniel Branstetter, et al.. (2017). Abstract S2-04: RANK ligand as a target for breast cancer prevention in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Cancer Research. 77(4_Supplement). S2–4. 1 indexed citations

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Volz, Jennifer, Xavier Sisquella, Nicholas Lim, et al.. (2016). Essential Role of the PfRh5/PfRipr/CyRPA Complex during Plasmodium falciparum Invasion of Erythrocytes. Cell Host & Microbe. 20(1). 60–71. 144 indexed citations

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Sleebs, Brad E., Sash Lopaticki, Danushka S. Marapana, et al.. (2014). Inhibition of Plasmepsin V Activity Demonstrates Its Essential Role in Protein Export, PfEMP1 Display, and Survival of Malaria Parasites. PLoS Biology. 12(7). e1001897–e1001897. 113 indexed citations

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McCoy, J. Michael, Lachlan Whitehead, Giel G. van Dooren, & Christopher J. Tonkin. (2012). TgCDPK3 Regulates Calcium-Dependent Egress of Toxoplasma gondii from Host Cells. PLoS Pathogens. 8(12). e1003066–e1003066. 113 indexed citations

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Clark, Jesse N., Garth J. Williams, Harry M. Quiney, et al.. (2008). Quantitative phase measurement in coherent diffraction imaging. Optics Express. 16(5). 3342–3342. 21 indexed citations

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