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29089
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6140
National Ranking
2882

Overview

Craig Blackstone is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The main fields of study include Neuroscience, with 39 publications, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 24, and Medicine with 18. Key subfields encompass Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Genetics.

The research topics addressed by Blackstone focus extensively on hereditary neurological disorders, neurological diseases and metabolism, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, mitochondrial function and pathology, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Recent published papers illustrate their investigative interests and expertise:

  • ER proteins decipher the tubulin code to regulate organelle distribution, 2021, Nature
  • Motion of VAPB molecules reveals ER-mitochondria contact site subdomains, 2024, Nature
  • Impaired lipid metabolism in astrocytes underlies degeneration of cortical projection neurons in hereditary spastic paraplegia, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Clueless/CLUH regulates mitochondrial fission by promoting recruitment of Drp1 to mitochondria, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Transverse endoplasmic reticulum expansion in hereditary spastic paraplegia corticospinal axons, 2022, Human Molecular Genetics

Blackstone's frequent co-authors include Jonathon Nixon-Abell, Christopher J. Obara, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Pengli Zheng, and C. Shan Xu. These collaborations suggest a multidisciplinary approach that spans molecular biology and neurogenetics.

The main publication venues contributing to Blackstone's academic portfolio are:

  • Nature
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Human Molecular Genetics
  • Movement Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Dephosphorylation by calcineurin regulates translocation of Drp1 to mitochondria

    G. M. Cereghetti;A. Stangherlin;O. Martins de Brito;C. R. Chang

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation of Drp1 regulates its GTPase activity and mitochondrial morphology.

    Chuang-Rung Chang;Craig Blackstone

  • AMPA glutamate receptor subunits are differentially distributed in rat brain

    L.J. Martin;C.D. Blackstone;A.I. Levey;R.L. Huganir

  • Cellular localization of a metabotropic glutamate receptor in rat brain

    Lee J. Martin;Craig D. Blackstone;Richard L. Huganir;Donald L. Price

  • Dynamic regulation of mitochondrial fission through modification of the dynamin-related protein Drp1

    Chuang-Rung Chang;Craig Blackstone

  • A class of dynamin-like GTPases involved in the generation of the tubular ER network.

    Junjie Hu;Yoko Shibata;Peng-Peng Zhu;Christiane Voss

  • The distribution of glutamate receptors in cultured rat hippocampal neurons: Postsynaptic clustering of AMPA selective subunits

    Ann Marie Craig;Craig D. Blackstone;Richard L. Huganir;Gary Banker

  • Increased spatiotemporal resolution reveals highly dynamic dense tubular matrices in the peripheral ER.

    Jonathon Nixon-Abell;Jonathon Nixon-Abell;Christopher J. Obara;Christopher J. Obara;Aubrey V. Weigel;Aubrey V. Weigel;Dong Li;Dong Li

  • Regulation of GABAA receptor function by protein kinase C phosphorylation

    Belinda J. Krishek;Xinmin Xie;Craig Blackstone;Richard L. Huganir

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia proteins REEP1, spastin, and atlastin-1 coordinate microtubule interactions with the tubular ER network

    Seong H. Park;Peng-Peng Zhu;Rell L. Parker;Craig Blackstone

  • Functional modulation of GABAA receptors by cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation

    Stephen J. Moss;Trevor G. Smart;Craig D. Blackstone;Richard L. Huganir

  • Cellular Pathways of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

    Craig Blackstone

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegias: membrane traffic and the motor pathway

    Craig Blackstone;Cahir J. O'Kane;Evan Reid

  • Phosphorylation and modulation of recombinant GluR6 glutamate receptors by cAMP-dependent protein kinase

    Lynn A. Raymond;Craig D. Blackstone;Richard L. Huganir

  • Phosphorylation of ligand-gated ion channels: a possible mode of synaptic plasticity.

    Sheridan L. Swope;Stephen J. Moss;Craig D. Blackstone;Richard L. Huganir

  • Structural basis for midbody targeting of spastin by the ESCRT-III protein CHMP1B

    Dong Yang;Neggy Rismanchi;Benoit Renvoise;jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  • Release of OPA1 during Apoptosis Participates in the Rapid and Complete Release of Cytochrome c and Subsequent Mitochondrial Fragmentation

    Damien Arnoult;Damien Arnoult;Alain Grodet;Yang-Ja Lee;Jérôme Estaquier

  • L166P mutant DJ-1, causative for recessive Parkinson's disease, is degraded through the ubiquitin-proteasome system.

    David W. Miller;Rili Ahmad;Stephen Hague;Melisa J. Baptista

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard L. Huganir
Richard L. Huganir Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Giovanni Stevanin
Giovanni Stevanin Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Lee J. Martin
Lee J. Martin Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Donald L. Price
Donald L. Price Johns Hopkins University
Stephen J. Moss
Stephen J. Moss Tufts University
Morgan Sheng
Morgan Sheng Broad Institute
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Allan I. Levey
Allan I. Levey Emory University
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
William A. Gahl
William A. Gahl National Institutes of Health

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