Vanessa M. Conn

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
25 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Vanessa M. Conn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa M. Conn has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 10 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Vanessa M. Conn's work include Circular RNAs in diseases (12 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (6 papers). Vanessa M. Conn is often cited by papers focused on Circular RNAs in diseases (12 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (6 papers). Vanessa M. Conn collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Vanessa M. Conn's co-authors include Simon J. Conn, Christopher M. M. Franco, Gregory J. Goodall, John Toubia, Philip A. Gregory, Katherine A. Pillman, Marika Salmanidis, Andreas Schreiber, Caroline A. Phillips and Suraya Roslan and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa M. Conn

25 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

The RNA Binding Protein Quaking Regulates Formation of ci... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2017 2015 2024 500 1000 1.5k
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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 RNA Binding Protein Quaking Regulates Formation of circRNAs
    2015 1.7k citations Simon J. Conn, Katherine A. Pillman et al. Cell profile →
  2. A circRNA from SEPALLATA3 regulates splicing of its cognate mRNA through R-loop formation
    2017 460 citations Vanessa M. Conn, Véronique Hugouvieux et al. Nature Plants profile →
  3. GABA signalling modulates plant growth by directly regulating the activity of plant-specific anion transporters
    2015 322 citations Sunita A. Ramesh, Stephen D. Tyerman et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Circular RNA in cancer
    2024 81 citations Vanessa M. Conn, Arul M. Chinnaiyan et al. Nature reviews. Cancer profile →

Peers

Vanessa M. Conn
Simon J. Conn Australia
Xin Wei China
Rui Shi China
Yong Guo China
Xiaoyan Wang China
Yafang Wang China
Yang Zhao China
Simon J. Conn Australia
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vanessa M. Conn

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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He, Lin, Vanessa M. Conn, & Simon J. Conn. (2025). Past, present, and future strategies for detecting and quantifying circular RNA variants. FEBS Journal. 292(16). 4073–4085. 1 indexed citations
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He, Lin, et al.. (2024). Native Circular RNA Pulldown Method to Simultaneously Profile RNA and Protein Interactions. Methods in molecular biology. 2765. 299–309. 2 indexed citations
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Conn, Vanessa M., Arul M. Chinnaiyan, & Simon J. Conn. (2024). Circular RNA in cancer. Nature reviews. Cancer. 24(9). 597–613. 81 indexed citations breakdown →
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Conn, Vanessa M., et al.. (2024). Use of synthetic circular RNA spike-ins (SynCRS) for normalization of circular RNA sequencing data. Nature Protocols. 20(2). 387–406. 4 indexed citations
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Stringer, Brett W., Vanessa M. Conn, Youichirou Ootsuka, et al.. (2023). Functional Characterisation of the Circular RNA, circHTT(2-6), in Huntington’s Disease. Cells. 12(9). 1337–1337. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Dawei, B. Kate Dredge, Andrew G. Bert, et al.. (2023). ESRP1 controls biogenesis and function of a large abundant multiexon circRNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(3). 1387–1403. 16 indexed citations
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Conn, Vanessa M., Shashikanth Marri, Brett W. Stringer, et al.. (2020). SRRM4 Expands the Repertoire of Circular RNAs by Regulating Microexon Inclusion. Cells. 9(11). 2488–2488. 14 indexed citations
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Conn, Vanessa M. & Simon J. Conn. (2019). SplintQuant: a method for accurately quantifying circular RNA transcript abundance without reverse transcription bias. RNA. 25(9). 1202–1210. 39 indexed citations
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Liu, Dawei, Vanessa M. Conn, Gregory J. Goodall, & Simon J. Conn. (2018). A Highly Efficient Strategy for Overexpressing circRNAs. Methods in molecular biology. 1724. 97–105. 19 indexed citations
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Toubia, John, Vanessa M. Conn, & Simon J. Conn. (2018). Don't go in circles: confounding factors in gene expression profiling. The EMBO Journal. 37(11). 7 indexed citations
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Conn, Vanessa M., Véronique Hugouvieux, Stephanie A. Conos, et al.. (2017). A circRNA from SEPALLATA3 regulates splicing of its cognate mRNA through R-loop formation. Nature Plants. 3(5). 17053–17053. 460 indexed citations breakdown →
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Garnett, Trevor, Darren Plett, Vanessa M. Conn, et al.. (2015). Variation for N Uptake System in Maize: Genotypic Response to N Supply. Frontiers in Plant Science. 6. 936–936. 39 indexed citations
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Conn, Simon J., Katherine A. Pillman, John Toubia, et al.. (2015). The RNA Binding Protein Quaking Regulates Formation of circRNAs. Cell. 160(6). 1125–1134. 1671 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ramesh, Sunita A., Stephen D. Tyerman, Bo Xu, et al.. (2015). GABA signalling modulates plant growth by directly regulating the activity of plant-specific anion transporters. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7879–7879. 322 indexed citations breakdown →
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Athman, Asmini, Sandra K. Tanz, Vanessa M. Conn, et al.. (2014). Protocol: a fast and simple in situ PCR method for localising gene expression in plant tissue. Plant Methods. 10(1). 29–29. 47 indexed citations
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Conn, Simon J., Bradleigh Hocking, Maclin Dayod, et al.. (2013). Protocol: optimising hydroponic growth systems for nutritional and physiological analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana and other plants. Plant Methods. 9(1). 4–4. 163 indexed citations
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Conn, Simon J., Vanessa M. Conn, Stephen D. Tyerman, et al.. (2011). Magnesium transporters, MGT2/MRS2‐1 and MGT3/MRS2‐5, are important for magnesium partitioning within Arabidopsis thaliana mesophyll vacuoles. New Phytologist. 190(3). 583–594. 87 indexed citations
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Garnett, Trevor, Vanessa M. Conn, & Brent N. Kaiser. (2009). Root based approaches to improving nitrogen use efficiency in plants. Plant Cell & Environment. 32(9). 1272–1283. 363 indexed citations
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Conn, Vanessa M., Amanda R. Walker, & Christopher M. M. Franco. (2008). Endophytic Actinobacteria Induce Defense Pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 21(2). 208–218. 252 indexed citations
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Franco, Christopher M. M., et al.. (2007). Actinobacterial endophytes for improved crop performance. Australasian Plant Pathology. 36(6). 524–524. 44 indexed citations

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