Marc Tessier‐Lavigne

60.7k citations

228 papers · 43.4k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 112

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.01%
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
Developmental Neuroscience top 0.01%
Cell Biology top 0.01%
Genetics top 0.5%

Co-authors: Corey S. Goodman Zhigang He Katja Brose Sophia A. Colamarino E. David Leonardo Peter Carmeliet Alain Chédotal Tito Serafini
Topics: Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (145 papers)Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (95 papers)Nerve injury and regeneration (37 papers)
Cited by: Developmental Neuroscience Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cell Biology
Journals: Nature Science Cell
Partner nations: United States France Canada

In The Last Decade

Marc Tessier‐Lavigne

224 papers receiving 42.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

The Molecular Biology of Axon Guidance

1996 2.7k citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. Science profile →
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 →
iDISCO: A Simple, Rapid Method to Immunolabel Large Tissue Samples for Volume Imaging

2014 1.1k citations Nicolas Renier, Zhuhao Wu et al. profile →
Netrin-1 Is Required for Commissural Axon Guidance in the Developing Vertebrate Nervous System

1996 1.0k citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
Neuropilin Is a Receptor for the Axonal Chemorepellent Semaphorin III

1997 972 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
Slit Proteins Bind Robo Receptors and Have an Evolutionarily Conserved Role in Repulsive Axon Guidance

1999 958 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
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 →
Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) Encodes a Netrin Receptor

1996 844 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring

2005 825 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
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 →
Conversion of Neuronal Growth Cone Responses from Repulsion to Attraction by Cyclic Nucleotides

1998 679 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. Science profile →
Efficient introduction of specific homozygous and heterozygous mutations using CRISPR/Cas9

2016 642 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
Phenotype of mice lacking functional Deleted in colorectal cancer (Dec) gene

1997 637 citations Helen Rayburn, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
New Neurons Follow the Flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid in the Adult Brain

2006 604 citations Kazunobu Sawamoto, Hynek Wichterle et al. Science profile →
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. profile →
The Morphogen Sonic Hedgehog Is an Axonal Chemoattractant that Collaborates with Netrin-1 in Midline Axon Guidance

2003 527 citations Marc Tessier‐Lavigne et al. profile →
Mapping of Brain Activity by Automated Volume Analysis of Immediate Early Genes

2016 516 citations Nicolas Renier, Eliza L. Adams et al. profile →
Temporal evolution of cortical ensembles promoting remote memory retrieval

2019 336 citations Eliza L. Adams, Drew Friedmann et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Midline assembloids reveal regulators of human axon guidance 2025 ·Science ·(unknown),Neal D. Amin,(unknown),Xiaoyu Chen,Ji‐il Kim,Noah Reis,Sabina Kanton,Alfredo M. Valencia,(unknown),(unknown),Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Sergiu P. Pașca	0
2	High‐throughput morphometric and transcriptomic profiling uncovers composition of naïve and sensory‐deprived cortical cholinergic VIP/CHAT neurons 2022 ·The EMBO Journal ·Nadav Yayon,Oren Amsalem,Tamara Zorbaz,(unknown),(unknown),Katarzyna Winek,(unknown),(unknown),Anna K. Schmidtner,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Nicolas Renier,Naomi Habib,Idan Segev,Michael London,Hermona Soreq	9
3	Mapping mesoscale axonal projections in the mouse brain using a 3D convolutional network 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Drew Friedmann,(unknown),Eliza L. Adams,Jan H. Lui,Justus M. Kebschull,Sophie M. Grutzner,(unknown),Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Liqun Luo	52
4	Cerebellar nuclei excitatory neurons regulate developmental scaling of presynaptic Purkinje cell number and organ growth 2019 ·eLife ·(unknown),N. Sumru Bayın,(unknown),(unknown),Alexandre Wojcinski,Zhimin Lao,Daniel Stephen,Alberto Roselló‐Díez,(unknown),Grant D. Orvis,Zhuhao Wu,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Alexandra L. Joyner	32
5	CRISPR–Cas9 screens in human cells and primary neurons identify modifiers of C9ORF72 dipeptide-repeat-protein toxicity 2018 ·Nature Genetics ·Nicholas J. Kramer,Michael S. Haney,David W. Morgens,Ana Jovičić,Julien Couthouis,Amy Li,James Ousey,K. Rosanna,Gregor Bieri,C. Kimberly Tsui,Yingxiao Shi,Nicholas T. Hertz,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Justin K. Ichida,Michael C. Bassik,Aaron D. Gitler	160
6	Prevalent presence of periodic actin–spectrin-based membrane skeleton in a broad range of neuronal cell types and animal species 2016 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jiang He,Ruobo Zhou,Zhuhao Wu,Mónica A. Carrasco,Peri T. Kurshan,Jonathan E. Farley,David Simon,Guiping Wang,Boran Han,Junjie Hao,Evan Heller,Marc Freeman,Kang Shen,Tom Maniatis,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Xiaowei Zhuang	121
7	Structures of netrin-1 bound to two receptors provide insight into its axon guidance mechanism 2014 ·Science ·Kai Xu,Zhuhao Wu,Nicolas Renier,Alexander Antipenko,Dorothea Tzvetkova‐Robev,Yan Xu,(unknown),Vincenzo Nardi‐Dei,Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar,Juha P. Himanen,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Dimitar B. Nikolov	129
8	Genetic Analysis of DSCAM's Role as a Netrin-1 Receptor in Vertebrates 2012 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown),Patrick C. G. Haddick,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Artur Kania	39
9	Draxin Inhibits Axonal Outgrowth through the Netrin Receptor DCC 2011 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Giasuddin Ahmed,Yohei Shinmyo,Kunimasa Ohta,Shahidul Islam,(unknown),Iftekhar Bin Naser,M. Asrafuzzaman Riyadh,Yuhong Su,Sanbing Zhang,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Hideaki Tanaka	68
10	Neuronal guidance : the biology of brain wiring : a subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 2011 ·Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Alex L. Kolodkin	2
11	Microarray analysis of retinal endothelial tip cells identifies CXCR4 as a mediator of tip cell morphology and branching 2010 ·Blood ·Geraldine Strasser,Joshua S. Kaminker,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne	218
12	Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Midline Crossing by Precerebellar Neurons 2008 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Thomas Di Meglio,Kim T. Nguyen-Ba-Charvet,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Constantino Sotelo,Alain Chédotal	43
13	New Neurons Follow the Flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid in the Adult Brainbreakdown → 2006 ·Science ·Kazunobu Sawamoto,Hynek Wichterle,Óscar González-Pérez,Jeremy A. Cholfin,Masayuki Yamada,Nathalie Spassky,Noel Murcia,José Manuel García‐Verdugo,Òscar Marín,John L.R. Rubenstein,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Hideyuki Okano,Arturo Álvarez-Buylla	604
14	Gene targeting using a promoterless gene trap vector (“targeted trapping”) is an efficient method to mutate a large fraction of genes 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Roland H. Friedel,Andrew Plump,Xiaowei Lu,Kerri Spilker,Christine Jolicoeur,Karen Wong,Tadmiri Venkatesh,Avraham Yaron,Mary Hynes,Bin Chen,Ami Okada,Susan K. McConnell,Helen Rayburn,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne	75
15	Genetic deletion of the Nogo receptor does not reduce neurite inhibition in vitro or promote corticospinal tract regeneration in vivo 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Binhai Zheng,Jasvinder K. Atwal,Carole Ho,Lauren C. Case,Xiao-lin He,K. Christopher García,Oswald Steward,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne	215
16	Inhibition of Netrin-Mediated Axon Attraction by a Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 2004 ·Science ·Chieh Chang,Timothy W. Yu,Cornelia I. Bargmann,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne	56
17	Anterior-Posterior Guidance of Commissural Axons by Wnt-Frizzled Signaling 2003 ·Science ·Anna I Lyuksyutova,(unknown),(unknown),Leslie A. King,Nini Guo,Yanshu Wang,Jeremy Nathans,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Yimin Zou	451
18	Mammalian Brain Morphogenesis and Midline Axon Guidance Require Heparan Sulfate 2003 ·Science ·Masaru Inatani,Fumitoshi Irie,Andrew Plump,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Yu Yamaguchi	344
19	Two Murine Homologs of the Drosophila Single-minded Protein That Interact with the Mouse Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nuclear Translocator Protein 1997 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Markus R. Probst,Chen‐Ming Fan,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne,Oliver Hankinson	79
20	DESIGNING SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS IN THE OUTER RETINA 1989 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·David Attwell,Marc Tessier‐Lavigne	2

About Marc Tessier‐Lavigne

Marc Tessier‐Lavigne is a scholar working on Developmental Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology, having authored 228 papers that have together received 43.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (145 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (95 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (37 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental Neuroscience (13.0k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (28.6k citations) and Cell Biology (9.9k citations). Marc Tessier‐Lavigne has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

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