Thomas A. Blanpied

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

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Thomas A. Blanpied is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Blanpied has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Blanpied's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (39 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (18 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (16 papers). Thomas A. Blanpied is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (39 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (18 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (16 papers). Thomas A. Blanpied collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and China. Thomas A. Blanpied's co-authors include Michael Ehlers, Harold D. MacGillavry, Ai‐Hui Tang, Jon W. Johnson, Justin M. Kerr, Thomas Biederer, Sarah R. Metzbower, Nicholas A. Frost, Haiwen Chen and Tuo Peter Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Blanpied

58 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

A trans-synaptic nanocolumn aligns neurotransmitter release to receptors

2016 453 citations Ai‐Hui Tang, Tuo Peter Li et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Blanpied United States	34	3.1k	2.8k	1.1k	581	561	59	4.8k
Martin Heine Germany	39	2.8k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	836 0.8×	582 1.0×	343 0.6×	83	4.9k
Tomomi Nemoto Japan	29	1.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	746 0.7×	491 0.8×	782 1.4×	107	4.0k
Pascal S. Kaeser United States	39	3.0k 1.0×	3.5k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	714 1.2×	262 0.5×	63	5.3k
Thomas Kuner Germany	53	4.8k 1.5×	3.9k 1.4×	623 0.6×	1.4k 2.4×	480 0.9×	124	7.9k
Varda Lev‐Ram United States	29	2.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	459 0.4×	665 1.1×	888 1.6×	47	5.1k
Jürgen Klingauf Germany	37	2.3k 0.7×	3.3k 1.2×	2.2k 2.0×	318 0.5×	280 0.5×	93	4.9k
Eric Hosy France	30	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	411 0.4×	399 0.7×	821 1.5×	51	4.1k
Valentin Stein Germany	30	3.4k 1.1×	4.1k 1.5×	683 0.6×	540 0.9×	182 0.3×	50	5.9k
Laurent Groc France	49	4.6k 1.5×	3.4k 1.2×	538 0.5×	1.2k 2.0×	449 0.8×	121	7.8k
U. Valentin Nägerl France	35	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	439 0.4×	1.0k 1.8×	1.1k 2.0×	67	4.9k

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Anderson, Michael, et al.. (2025). Trans-synaptic molecular context of NMDA receptor nanodomains. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7460–7460. 4 indexed citations

Metzbower, Sarah R., et al.. (2024). Distinct SAP102 and PSD-95 Nano-organization Defines Multiple Types of Synaptic Scaffold Protein Domains at Single Synapses. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(26). e1715232024–e1715232024. 7 indexed citations

Emperador-Melero, Javier, Sarah R. Metzbower, Poorna A. Dharmasri, et al.. (2024). Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses. Nature Neuroscience. 27(9). 1680–1694. 12 indexed citations

Dharmasri, Poorna A., et al.. (2024). Differential nanoscale organization of excitatory synapses onto excitatory vs. inhibitory neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2315379121–e2315379121. 9 indexed citations

Sarkar, Deblina, Jinyoung Kang, Asmamaw T. Wassie, et al.. (2022). Revealing nanostructures in brain tissue via protein decrowding by iterative expansion microscopy. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 6(9). 1057–1073. 47 indexed citations

Tang, Ai‐Hui, et al.. (2021). Subsynaptic positioning of AMPARs by LRRTM2 controls synaptic strength. Science Advances. 7(34). 56 indexed citations

Held, Richard G., Changliang Liu, Tyler B. Tarr, et al.. (2020). Synapse and Active Zone Assembly in the Absence of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Ca2+ Entry. Neuron. 107(4). 667–683.e9. 62 indexed citations

Blanpied, Thomas A., et al.. (2019). Quantification of trans-synaptic protein alignment: A data analysis case for single-molecule localization microscopy. Methods. 174. 72–80. 17 indexed citations

Metzbower, Sarah R., Yuyoung Joo, David R. Benavides, & Thomas A. Blanpied. (2019). Properties of Individual Hippocampal Synapses Influencing NMDA-Receptor Activation by Spontaneous Neurotransmission. eNeuro. 6(3). ENEURO.0419–18.2019. 13 indexed citations

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Tchantchou, Flaubert, et al.. (2017). Rat Model of Brain Injury to Occupants of Vehicles Targeted by Land Mines: Mitigation by Elastomeric Frame Designs. Journal of Neurotrauma. 35(10). 1192–1203. 10 indexed citations

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Francis, T. Chase, Ramesh Chandra, Prasad Konkalmatt, et al.. (2017). Molecular basis of dendritic atrophy and activity in stress susceptibility. Molecular Psychiatry. 22(11). 1512–1519. 65 indexed citations

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Li, Tuo Peter & Thomas A. Blanpied. (2016). Control of Transmembrane Protein Diffusion within the Postsynaptic Density Assessed by Simultaneous Single-Molecule Tracking and Localization Microscopy. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. 8. 19–19. 18 indexed citations

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Valenzuela, José Ignacio, Daniela Salas, Omar A. Ramírez, et al.. (2014). Transport along the dendritic endoplasmic reticulum defines the trafficking modality for GABAB receptors. Journal of Cell Science. 127(Pt 15). 3382–95. 23 indexed citations

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MacGillavry, Harold D., et al.. (2014). Multiple Spatial and Kinetic Subpopulations of CaMKII in Spines and Dendrites as Resolved by Single-Molecule Tracking PALM. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(22). 7600–7610. 61 indexed citations

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Frost, Nicholas A., Hari Shroff, Huihui Kong, Eric Betzig, & Thomas A. Blanpied. (2010). Single-Molecule Discrimination of Discrete Perisynaptic and Distributed Sites of Actin Filament Assembly within Dendritic Spines. Neuron. 67(1). 86–99. 216 indexed citations

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Blanpied, Thomas A., Justin M. Kerr, & Michael Ehlers. (2008). Structural plasticity with preserved topology in the postsynaptic protein network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(34). 12587–12592. 100 indexed citations

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Lü, Jiuyi, Thomas D. Helton, Thomas A. Blanpied, et al.. (2007). Postsynaptic Positioning of Endocytic Zones and AMPA Receptor Cycling by Physical Coupling of Dynamin-3 to Homer. Neuron. 55(6). 874–889. 211 indexed citations

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Blanpied, Thomas A. & Michael Ehlers. (2004). Microanatomy of dendritic spines: emerging principles of synaptic pathology in psychiatric and neurological disease. Biological Psychiatry. 55(12). 1121–1127. 148 indexed citations

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Blanpied, Thomas A., et al.. (2003). Coordinated PKA and PKC phosphorylation suppresses RXR-mediated ER retention and regulates the surface delivery of NMDA receptors. Neuropharmacology. 45(6). 755–767. 159 indexed citations

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Blanpied, Thomas A.. (2003). Age-related regulation of dendritic endocytosis associated with altered clathrin dynamics. Neurobiology of Aging. 24(8). 1095–1104. 39 indexed citations

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