Marc Tessier‐Lavigne

60.7k total citations · 18 hit papers
228 papers, 43.4k citations indexed

About

Marc Tessier‐Lavigne is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 43.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 132 papers in Molecular Biology and 95 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Marc Tessier‐Lavigne's work include Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (145 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (95 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (37 papers). Marc Tessier‐Lavigne is often cited by papers focused on Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (145 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (95 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (37 papers). Marc Tessier‐Lavigne collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Marc Tessier‐Lavigne's co-authors include Corey S. Goodman, Zhigang He, Katja Brose, Sophia A. Colamarino, E. David Leonardo, Peter Carmeliet, Alain Chédotal, Tito Serafini, Timothy E. Kennedy and Chen‐Ming Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Marc Tessier‐Lavigne

224 papers receiving 42.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Molecular Biology of ... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1996 1994 2014 1996 1997 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. The Molecular Biology of Axon Guidance
    1996 2.7k citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. Science profile →
  2. The netrins define a family of axon outgrowth-promoting proteins homologous to C. elegans UNC-6
    1994 1.1k citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  3. iDISCO: A Simple, Rapid Method to Immunolabel Large Tissue Samples for Volume Imaging
    2014 1.1k citations Nicolas Renier, Zhuhao Wu et al. profile →
  4. Netrin-1 Is Required for Commissural Axon Guidance in the Developing Vertebrate Nervous System
    1996 1.0k citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  5. Neuropilin Is a Receptor for the Axonal Chemorepellent Semaphorin III
    1997 972 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  6. Slit Proteins Bind Robo Receptors and Have an Evolutionarily Conserved Role in Repulsive Axon Guidance
    1999 958 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  7. Plexins Are a Large Family of Receptors for Transmembrane, Secreted, and GPI-Anchored Semaphorins in Vertebrates
    1999 950 citations Alain Chédotal, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  8. Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) Encodes a Netrin Receptor
    1996 844 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  9. Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring
    2005 825 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  10. Roundabout Controls Axon Crossing of the CNS Midline and Defines a Novel Subfamily of Evolutionarily Conserved Guidance Receptors
    1998 734 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  11. Conversion of Neuronal Growth Cone Responses from Repulsion to Attraction by Cyclic Nucleotides
    1998 679 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. Science profile →
  12. Efficient introduction of specific homozygous and heterozygous mutations using CRISPR/Cas9
    2016 642 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  13. Phenotype of mice lacking functional Deleted in colorectal cancer (Dec) gene
    1997 637 citations Helen Rayburn, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  14. New Neurons Follow the Flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid in the Adult Brain
    2006 604 citations Kazunobu Sawamoto, Hynek Wichterle et al. Science profile →
  15. Neuropilin-2, a Novel Member of the Neuropilin Family, Is a High Affinity Receptor for the Semaphorins Sema E and Sema IV but Not Sema III
    1997 563 citations Alain Chédotal, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. Neuron profile →
  16. The Morphogen Sonic Hedgehog Is an Axonal Chemoattractant that Collaborates with Netrin-1 in Midline Axon Guidance
    2003 527 citations Frédéric Charron, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
  17. Mapping of Brain Activity by Automated Volume Analysis of Immediate Early Genes
    2016 516 citations Nicolas Renier, Eliza L. Adams et al. profile →
  18. Temporal evolution of cortical ensembles promoting remote memory retrieval
    2019 336 citations Eliza L. Adams, Drew Friedmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marc Tessier‐Lavigne United States 112 28.6k 23.5k 13.0k 9.9k 2.2k 228 43.4k
Rüdiger Klein Germany 97 19.9k 0.7× 17.0k 0.7× 7.6k 0.6× 5.8k 0.6× 2.1k 0.9× 218 35.0k
Louis F. Reichardt United States 95 18.9k 0.7× 15.9k 0.7× 8.2k 0.6× 5.3k 0.5× 2.4k 1.1× 207 35.6k
Melitta Schachner Germany 106 19.5k 0.7× 22.0k 0.9× 11.2k 0.9× 9.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 631 42.1k
Thomas M. Jessell United States 136 21.6k 0.8× 36.8k 1.6× 12.2k 0.9× 9.9k 1.0× 5.7k 2.6× 246 56.0k
Joshua R. Sanes United States 127 22.7k 0.8× 35.0k 1.5× 5.0k 0.4× 10.1k 1.0× 3.9k 1.8× 347 55.1k
Moses V. Chao United States 100 18.3k 0.6× 16.8k 0.7× 7.2k 0.6× 3.0k 0.3× 2.3k 1.1× 296 35.2k
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba Japan 99 13.6k 0.5× 23.5k 1.0× 4.6k 0.4× 8.6k 0.9× 2.6k 1.2× 553 37.0k
Corey S. Goodman United States 103 26.7k 0.9× 21.2k 0.9× 6.5k 0.5× 10.5k 1.1× 3.1k 1.4× 189 37.2k
Hideyuki Okano Japan 122 14.9k 0.5× 32.0k 1.4× 12.4k 1.0× 4.5k 0.5× 5.0k 2.2× 1.2k 60.9k
David R. Kaplan Canada 81 11.0k 0.4× 16.4k 0.7× 5.3k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 1.8k 0.8× 202 27.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Tessier‐Lavigne

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Amin, Neal D., Xiaoyu Chen, Ji‐il Kim, et al.. (2025). Midline assembloids reveal regulators of human axon guidance. Science. 389(6757). 282–289.
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Li, Taoyingnan, Hyunwoo Kwon, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne, et al.. (2023). SLIT2/ROBO1 signaling suppresses mTORC1 for organelle control and bacterial killing. Life Science Alliance. 6(8). e202301964–e202301964. 5 indexed citations
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Friedmann, Drew, Eliza L. Adams, Jan H. Lui, et al.. (2020). Mapping mesoscale axonal projections in the mouse brain using a 3D convolutional network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(20). 11068–11075. 52 indexed citations
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Bayın, N. Sumru, Alexandre Wojcinski, Zhimin Lao, et al.. (2019). Cerebellar nuclei excitatory neurons regulate developmental scaling of presynaptic Purkinje cell number and organ growth. eLife. 8. 32 indexed citations
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Kramer, Nicholas J., Michael S. Haney, David W. Morgens, et al.. (2018). CRISPR–Cas9 screens in human cells and primary neurons identify modifiers of C9ORF72 dipeptide-repeat-protein toxicity. Nature Genetics. 50(4). 603–612. 160 indexed citations
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Larhammar, Martin, Sarah Huntwork‐Rodriguez, Zhiyu Jiang, et al.. (2017). Dual leucine zipper kinase-dependent PERK activation contributes to neuronal degeneration following insult. eLife. 6. 51 indexed citations
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He, Jiang, Ruobo Zhou, Zhuhao Wu, et al.. (2016). Prevalent presence of periodic actin–spectrin-based membrane skeleton in a broad range of neuronal cell types and animal species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(21). 6029–6034. 121 indexed citations
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Xu, Kai, Zhuhao Wu, Nicolas Renier, et al.. (2014). Structures of netrin-1 bound to two receptors provide insight into its axon guidance mechanism. Science. 344(6189). 1275–1279. 129 indexed citations
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Yam, Patricia T., Steves Morin, W. Todd Farmer, et al.. (2012). 14-3-3 Proteins Regulate a Cell-Intrinsic Switch from Sonic Hedgehog-Mediated Commissural Axon Attraction to Repulsion after Midline Crossing. Neuron. 76(4). 735–749. 75 indexed citations
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Haddick, Patrick C. G., et al.. (2012). Genetic Analysis of DSCAM's Role as a Netrin-1 Receptor in Vertebrates. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(2). 411–416. 39 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Giasuddin, Yohei Shinmyo, Kunimasa Ohta, et al.. (2011). Draxin Inhibits Axonal Outgrowth through the Netrin Receptor DCC. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(39). 14018–14023. 68 indexed citations
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Strasser, Geraldine, Joshua S. Kaminker, & Marc Tessier‐Lavigne. (2010). Microarray analysis of retinal endothelial tip cells identifies CXCR4 as a mediator of tip cell morphology and branching. Blood. 115(24). 5102–5110. 218 indexed citations
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Meglio, Thomas Di, Kim T. Nguyen-Ba-Charvet, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne, Constantino Sotelo, & Alain Chédotal. (2008). Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Midline Crossing by Precerebellar Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(25). 6285–6294. 43 indexed citations
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Sawamoto, Kazunobu, Hynek Wichterle, Óscar González-Pérez, et al.. (2006). New Neurons Follow the Flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid in the Adult Brain. Science. 311(5761). 629–632. 604 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Binhai, Jasvinder K. Atwal, Carole Ho, et al.. (2005). Genetic deletion of the Nogo receptor does not reduce neurite inhibition in vitro or promote corticospinal tract regeneration in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(4). 1205–1210. 215 indexed citations
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Friedel, Roland H., Andrew Plump, Xiaowei Lu, et al.. (2005). Gene targeting using a promoterless gene trap vector (“targeted trapping”) is an efficient method to mutate a large fraction of genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(37). 13188–13193. 75 indexed citations
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Chang, Chieh, Timothy W. Yu, Cornelia I. Bargmann, & Marc Tessier‐Lavigne. (2004). Inhibition of Netrin-Mediated Axon Attraction by a Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase. Science. 305(5680). 103–106. 56 indexed citations
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Inatani, Masaru, Fumitoshi Irie, Andrew Plump, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne, & Yu Yamaguchi. (2003). Mammalian Brain Morphogenesis and Midline Axon Guidance Require Heparan Sulfate. Science. 302(5647). 1044–1046. 344 indexed citations
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Lyuksyutova, Anna I, Leslie A. King, Nini Guo, et al.. (2003). Anterior-Posterior Guidance of Commissural Axons by Wnt-Frizzled Signaling. Science. 302(5652). 1984–1988. 451 indexed citations
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Attwell, David & Marc Tessier‐Lavigne. (1989). DESIGNING SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS IN THE OUTER RETINA. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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