Robert H. Insall

11.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Robert H. Insall is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert H. Insall has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Cell Biology, 53 papers in Molecular Biology and 31 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Robert H. Insall's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (112 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (44 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (39 papers). Robert H. Insall is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (112 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (44 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (39 papers). Robert H. Insall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Robert H. Insall's co-authors include Laura M. Machesky, Douwe M. Veltman, Jason King, Natalie Andrew, Peter N. Devreotes, Alice Y. Pollitt, Orion D. Weiner, Robert R. Kay, Luke Tweedy and Peter A. Thomason and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Robert H. Insall

176 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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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.

Scar1 and the related Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein, WASP, regulate the actin cytoskeleton through the Arp2/3 complex

1998 753 citations Laura M. Machesky, Robert H. Insall Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert H. Insall United Kingdom	50	5.5k	3.7k	1.1k	1.1k	871	181	8.6k
Carole A. Parent United States	45	3.4k 0.6×	3.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	930 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	109	7.7k
Henry N. Higgs United States	52	6.3k 1.1×	6.3k 1.7×	595 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	678 0.8×	104	11.6k
Giorgio Scita Italy	57	4.8k 0.9×	5.3k 1.4×	590 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	670 0.8×	141	9.8k
Kurt I. Anderson United Kingdom	53	3.7k 0.7×	3.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	958 0.9×	497 0.6×	92	8.2k
R. Dyche Mullins United States	47	7.5k 1.4×	5.5k 1.5×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	550 0.6×	86	12.3k
Timothy J. Mitchison United States	35	5.6k 1.0×	4.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	942 0.9×	495 0.6×	39	8.5k
Tatyana Svitkina United States	59	8.8k 1.6×	5.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	746 0.9×	114	13.1k
Theresia E. B. Stradal Germany	46	4.4k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	553 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	724 0.8×	111	7.6k
Angelika A. Noegel Germany	56	5.2k 0.9×	6.2k 1.7×	487 0.4×	651 0.6×	516 0.6×	217	10.0k
Michael Schleicher Germany	53	4.3k 0.8×	4.1k 1.1×	479 0.4×	516 0.5×	530 0.6×	175	8.3k

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Whitelaw, Jamie, Sérgio Lilla, Luke Tweedy, et al.. (2025). CYRI-B loss promotes enlarged mature focal adhesions and restricts microtubule and ERC1 access to the cell leading edge. Journal of Cell Science. 138(22).

Thomason, Peter A., et al.. (2024). A Reliable System for Quantitative G-Protein Activation Imaging in Cancer Cells. Cells. 13(13). 1114–1114. 1 indexed citations

Thomason, Peter A., et al.. (2024). Biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex-2 is an evolutionarily ancient proto-coatomer complex. Current Biology. 34(15). 3564–3581.e6. 4 indexed citations

Fatima, Areeba, Jamie Whitelaw, Ewan J. McGhee, et al.. (2024). Single-sample image-fusion upsampling of fluorescence lifetime images. Science Advances. 10(21). eadn0139–eadn0139. 4 indexed citations

Insall, Robert H.. (2023). Science Twitter — navigating change in science communication. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 24(5). 305–306. 9 indexed citations

Donnelly, Hannah, et al.. (2023). Sinking while you swim: A dual role for CCR7 in leukocyte migration. Science Immunology. 8(87). eadj3102–eadj3102. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Robin S. B., Jonathan R. Chubb, Robert H. Insall, et al.. (2021). Moving the Research Forward: The Best of British Biology Using the Tractable Model System Dictyostelium discoideum. Cells. 10(11). 3036–3036. 7 indexed citations

McMenamin, Paul G., Yashar Seyed‐Razavi, Helen Kalirai, et al.. (2020). Melanoblasts Populate the Mouse Choroid Earlier in Development Than Previously Described. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(10). 33–33. 7 indexed citations

Singh, Shashi Prakash & Robert H. Insall. (2020). Adhesion stimulates Scar/WAVE phosphorylation in mammalian cells. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 14(1). 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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Yelland, Tamas, et al.. (2020). Structural Basis of CYRI-B Direct Competition with Scar/WAVE Complex for Rac1. Structure. 29(3). 226–237.e4. 12 indexed citations

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Singh, Shashi Prakash, Peter A. Thomason, Sérgio Lilla, et al.. (2020). Cell–substrate adhesion drives Scar/WAVE activation and phosphorylation by a Ste20-family kinase, which controls pseudopod lifetime. PLoS Biology. 18(8). e3000774–e3000774. 17 indexed citations

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Tweedy, Luke, et al.. (2019). Screening by changes in stereotypical behavior during cell motility. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8784–8784. 8 indexed citations

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Susanto, Olivia, Yvette W. H. Koh, Nick Morrice, et al.. (2017). LPP3 mediates self-generation of chemotactic LPA gradients by melanoma cells. Journal of Cell Science. 130(20). 3455–3466. 39 indexed citations

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Matthiopoulos, Jason, et al.. (2016). Inference of the drivers of collective movement in two cell types: Dictyostelium and melanoma. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 13(123). 20160695–20160695. 11 indexed citations

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Woodham, Emma F., et al.. (2016). Loss of strumpellin in the melanocytic lineage impairs theWASHComplex but does not affect coat colour. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 29(5). 559–571. 15 indexed citations

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Veltman, Douwe M., Jason King, Laura M. Machesky, & Robert H. Insall. (2012). SCAR knockouts in Dictyostelium : WASP assumes SCAR’s position and upstream regulators in pseudopods. The Journal of Cell Biology. 198(4). 501–508. 69 indexed citations

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Yu, Xinzi, Tobias Zech, Laura McDonald, et al.. (2012). N-WASP coordinates the delivery and F-actin–mediated capture of MT1-MMP at invasive pseudopods. The Journal of Cell Biology. 199(3). 527–544. 138 indexed citations

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Zaki, Mehreen, Natalie Andrew, & Robert H. Insall. (2006). Entamoeba histolytica cell movement: A central role for self-generated chemokines and chemorepellents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(49). 18751–18756. 38 indexed citations

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Zouwail, Soha, Trevor R. Pettitt, Stephen K. Dove, et al.. (2005). Phospholipase D activity is essential for actin localization and actin-based motility in Dictyostelium. Biochemical Journal. 389(1). 207–214. 46 indexed citations

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Morgan, Clive P., Robert H. Insall, Lee P. Haynes, & Shamshad Cockcroft. (2004). Identification of phospholipase B from Dictyostelium discoideum reveals a new lipase family present in mammals, flies and nematodes, but not yeast. Biochemical Journal. 382(2). 441–449. 25 indexed citations

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