2026 Clare M. Waterman-Storer: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	52	16470	6817	75	15593

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Clare M. Waterman-Storer is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on cellular mechanics and molecular interactions.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these fields, the subfields of study cover:

Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Immunology
Immunology and Allergy
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

The topics predominantly addressed in their work involve:

Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Vasculitis and related conditions
3D Printing in Biomedical Research

Their research has been disseminated across several frequent publication venues, including:

UNC Libraries
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Frontiers in Immunology
Molecular Biology of the Cell

Prominent papers authored or co-authored by Clare M. Waterman-Storer include:

Cellular Mechanisms of NETosis, 2020, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
NETosis proceeds by cytoskeleton and endomembrane disassembly and PAD4-mediated chromatin decondensation and nuclear envelope rupture, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
NLRP3 Inflammasome Assembly in Neutrophils Is Supported by PAD4 and Promotes NETosis Under Sterile Conditions, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
Mechanosensing through Direct Binding of Tensed F-Actin by LIM Domains, 2020, Developmental Cell
Physical Constraints and Forces Involved in Phagocytosis, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Valentin Jaumouillé
Denisa D. Wagner
Hawa Racine Thiam
Robert Fischer
Michelle A. Baird

Clare M. Waterman-Storer has received the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2005.

Best Publications

Conserved microtubule-actin interactions in cell movement and morphogenesis.

Olga C. Rodriguez;Andrew W. Schaefer;Craig A. Mandato;Paul Forscher

1112
Citations
Two distinct actin networks drive the protrusion of migrating cells

A. Ponti;M. Machacek;S. L. Gupton;C. M. Waterman-Storer

997
Citations
Spatiotemporal feedback between actomyosin and focal-adhesion systems optimizes rapid cell migration.

Stephanie L. Gupton;Clare M. Waterman-Storer

699
Citations
Actomyosin-based Retrograde Flow of Microtubules in the Lamella of Migrating Epithelial Cells Influences Microtubule Dynamic Instability and Turnover and Is Associated with Microtubule Breakage and Treadmilling

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Edward D Salmon

666
Citations
Differential transmission of actin motion within focal adhesions

Ke Hu;Lin Ji;Kathryn T. Applegate;Gaudenz Danuser

632
Citations
Microtubule growth activates Rac1 to promote lamellipodial protrusion in fibroblasts

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Rebecca A. Worthylake;Betty P. Liu;Keith Burridge

616
Citations
Cell motility: can Rho GTPases and microtubules point the way?

Torsten Wittmann;Clare M. Waterman-Storer

587
Citations
A Dynamic Actin Cytoskeleton Functions at Multiple Stages of Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis

Defne Yarar;Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Sandra L. Schmid

517
Citations
Importin β Is a Mitotic Target of the Small GTPase Ran in Spindle Assembly

Maxence V Nachury;Thomas J Maresca;Wendy C Salmon;Clare M Waterman-Storer

488
Citations
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane tubules are distributed by microtubules in living cells using three distinct mechanisms

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Edward D Salmon

406
Citations
Integrin-dependent actomyosin contraction regulates epithelial cell scattering

Johan de Rooij;Johan de Rooij;Andre Kerstens;Andre Kerstens;Gaudenz Danuser;Martin A. Schwartz

395
Citations
Fluorescent speckle microscopy, a method to visualize the dynamics of protein assemblies in living cells

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Arshad Desai;J. Chloe Bulinski;E.D. Salmon

391
Citations
The p150Glued component of the dynactin complex binds to both microtubules and the actin-related protein centractin (Arp-1).

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Sher Karki;Erika L. F. Holzbaur

380
Citations
Caveolin-1 regulates cell polarization and directional migration through Src kinase and Rho GTPases.

Araceli Grande-García;Asier Echarri;Johan de Rooij;Nazilla B. Alderson

380
Citations
Positive feedback interactions between microtubule and actin dynamics during cell motility

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Edward D Salmon

352
Citations
Regulation of leading edge microtubule and actin dynamics downstream of Rac1

Torsten Wittmann;Gary M. Bokoch;Clare M. Waterman-Storer

324
Citations
Cell migration without a lamellipodium translation of actin dynamics into cell movement mediated by tropomyosin

Stephanie L. Gupton;Karen L. Anderson;Thomas P. Kole;Robert S. Fischer

323
Citations
Regulation of Microtubule Destabilizing Activity of Op18/Stathmin Downstream of Rac1

Torsten Wittmann;Gary M. Bokoch;Clare M. Waterman-Storer

317
Citations
The interaction between cytoplasmic dynein and dynactin is required for fast axonal transport

Clare M. Waterman-Storer;Sher B. Karki;Sergei A. Kuznetsov;Joel S. Tabb

316
Citations
PyK2 and FAK connections to p190Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor regulate RhoA activity, focal adhesion formation, and cell motility.

Yangmi Lim;Ssang-Taek Lim;Alok Tomar;Margaret Gardel

273
Citations