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  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Anne J. Ridley is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work delves into several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, and Oncology. Their research topics are diverse, focusing on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling, Microbial infections and disease research, Cancer-related Molecular Pathways, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Cell Adhesion Molecules Research, and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

Frequent peers collaborating with Anne J. Ridley include Natasha S. Clayton, Camilla Cerutti, Alannah S. Deeney, Keli Lima, and Mariana Lazarini.

The venues where this scientist frequently publishes include BMC Veterinary Research, Journal of Cell Science, Scientific Reports, Microorganisms, and UNC Libraries.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Targeting Rho GTPase Signaling Networks in Cancer, 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Agricultural intensification and the evolution of host specialism in the enteric pathogen Campylobacter jejuni, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Identification of Mycoplasma species and related organisms from ruminants in England and Wales during 2005-2019, 2021, BMC Veterinary Research
  • Mycoplasma bovis in Nordic European Countries: Emergence and Dominance of a New Clone, 2020, Pathogens
  • Bcl-3 promotes multi-modal tumour cell migration via NF-κB1 mediated regulation of Cdc42, 2020, Carcinogenesis

Anne J. Ridley has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom since 2017.

Best Publications

  • The small GTP-binding protein rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers in response to growth factors.

    Anne J. Ridley;Alan Hall

  • Cell migration: integrating signals from front to back.

    Anne J. Ridley;Martin A. Schwartz;Keith Burridge;Richard A. Firtel

  • The small GTP-binding protein rac regulates growth factor-induced membrane ruffling

    Anne J. Ridley;Hugh F. Paterson;Caroline L. Johnston;Dagmar Diekmann

  • ROCKs: multifunctional kinases in cell behaviour

    Kirsi Riento;Anne J. Ridley;Anne J. Ridley

  • Mammalian Rho GTPases: new insights into their functions from in vivo studies.

    Sarah J. Heasman;Anne J. Ridley

  • Rho GTPases and cell migration.

    Anne J. Ridley

  • Rho GTPases and actin dynamics in membrane protrusions and vesicle trafficking.

    Anne J. Ridley

  • Role of Phosphoinositide 3-OH Kinase in Cell Transformation and Control of the Actin Cytoskeleton by Ras

    Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana;Patricia H Warne;Asim Khwaja;Barbara M Marte

  • Life at the Leading Edge

    Anne J. Ridley

  • Rho family proteins: coordinating cell responses

    Anne J. Ridley;Anne J. Ridley

  • Crossing the endothelial barrier during metastasis

    Nicolas Reymond;Bárbara Borda d'Água;Anne J Ridley

  • Rho GTPases in cancer cell biology.

    Francisco M. Vega;Anne J. Ridley

  • Regulating Rho GTPases and their regulators

    Richard G Hodge;Anne J Ridley

  • Rho GTPase signalling in cell migration.

    Anne J Ridley

  • A Role for Cdc42 in Macrophage Chemotaxis

    William E. Allen;Daniel Zicha;Anne J. Ridley;Gareth E. Jones

  • Regulation of scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor responses by Ras, Rac, and Rho in MDCK cells.

    A J Ridley;P M Comoglio;A Hall

  • Signal transduction pathways regulating Rho-mediated stress fibre formation: requirement for a tyrosine kinase.

    A.J. Ridley;A. Hall

  • Phosphatidylserine (PS) induces PS receptor–mediated macropinocytosis and promotes clearance of apoptotic cells

    Peter R. Hoffmann;Aimee M. deCathelineau;Carol Anne Ogden;Yann Leverrier

  • Why three Rho proteins? RhoA, RhoB, RhoC, and cell motility.

    Ann P Wheeler;Anne J Ridley;Anne J Ridley

  • Angiogenesis selectively requires the p110α isoform of PI3K to control endothelial cell migration

    Mariona Graupera;Julie Guillermet-Guibert;Lazaros C. Foukas;Li-Kun Phng

Frequent Co-Authors

Gareth E. Jones
Gareth E. Jones King's College London
Alan Hall
Alan Hall Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bart Vanhaesebroeck
Bart Vanhaesebroeck University College London
Federica M. Marelli-Berg
Federica M. Marelli-Berg Queen Mary University of London
Dorian O. Haskard
Dorian O. Haskard Imperial College London
Michael D. Waterfield
Michael D. Waterfield Ludwig Cancer Research
Hugh Paterson
Hugh Paterson Institute of Cancer Research
Rainer Cramer
Rainer Cramer University of Reading
Victor L. J. Tybulewicz
Victor L. J. Tybulewicz The Francis Crick Institute
Maikel P. Peppelenbosch
Maikel P. Peppelenbosch Erasmus University Rotterdam

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