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D-Index
53
Citations
14094
World Ranking
15974
National Ranking
6635

Overview

Donna J. Webb was affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of Engineering, with particular attention to Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering as subfields.

Their work covered several main topics, notably:

  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
  • Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography

Donna J. Webb contributed to academic literature by collaborating with various coauthors. Frequent coauthors included:

  • Richard Sidebottom
  • Briony Bishop
  • Kabir Mohammed
  • Steven Allen

The primary venue where Donna J. Webb published research was the British Journal of Radiology.

A notable recent paper authored was "Results for the London investigation into dielectric scanning of lesions study of the MARIA® M6 breast imaging system," published in 2024 in the British Journal of Radiology.

Best Publications

  • FAK-Src signalling through paxillin, ERK and MLCK regulates adhesion disassembly.

    Donna J. Webb;Karen Donais;Leanna A. Whitmore;Sheila M. Thomas

  • Adhesion assembly, disassembly and turnover in migrating cells -- over and over and over again.

    Donna J. Webb;J. Thomas Parsons;Alan F. Horwitz

  • Differential Dynamics of α5 Integrin, Paxillin, and α-Actinin during Formation and Disassembly of Adhesions in Migrating Cells

    Christina M. Laukaitis;Donna J. Webb;Karen Donais;Alan F. Horwitz

  • Cell migration at a glance

    Miguel Vicente-Manzanares;Donna J. Webb;A. Rick Horwitz

  • Cancer-associated fibroblasts modulate growth factor signaling and extracellular matrix remodeling to regulate tumor metastasis

    Begum Erdogan;Donna J. Webb

  • A GIT1/PIX/Rac/PAK Signaling Module Regulates Spine Morphogenesis and Synapse Formation through MLC

    Huaye Zhang;Donna J Webb;Hannelore Asmussen;Shuang Niu

  • Cancer-associated fibroblasts promote directional cancer cell migration by aligning fibronectin

    Begum Erdogan;Mingfang Ao;Lauren M. White;Anna L. Means

  • Myosin light chain kinase functions downstream of Ras/ERK to promote migration of urokinase-type plasminogen activator-stimulated cells in an integrin-selective manner.

    Diem H.D. Nguyen;Andrew D. Catling;Donna J. Webb;Mauricio Sankovic

  • Recreating blood-brain barrier physiology and structure on chip: A novel neurovascular microfluidic bioreactor

    Jacquelyn A. Brown;Virginia Pensabene;Dmitry A. Markov;Vanessa Allwardt

  • Paxillin phosphorylation at Ser273 localizes a GIT1–PIX–PAK complex and regulates adhesion and protrusion dynamics

    Anjana Nayal;Donna J. Webb;Claire M. Brown;Erik M. Schaefer

  • Cortactin promotes cell motility by enhancing lamellipodial persistence.

    Nicole S. Bryce;Emily S. Clark;Ja’Mes L. Leysath;Joshua D. Currie

  • Asymmetric focal adhesion disassembly in motile cells.

    Joshua A Broussard;Donna J Webb;Irina Kaverina

  • Synapse formation is regulated by the signaling adaptor GIT1

    Huaye Zhang;Donna J. Webb;Hannelore Asmussen;Alan F. Horwitz

  • Spatial mapping of integrin interactions and dynamics during cell migration by Image Correlation Microscopy

    Paul W. Wiseman;Claire M. Brown;Donna J. Webb;Benedict Hebert

  • GIT1 functions in a motile, multi-molecular signaling complex that regulates protrusive activity and cell migration.

    Ri-ichiroh Manabe;Mykola Kovalenko;Donna J. Webb;Alan Rick Horwitz

  • N-WASP and the Arp2/3 Complex Are Critical Regulators of Actin in the Development of Dendritic Spines and Synapses

    Adam M. Wegner;Caroline A. Nebhan;Lan Hu;Devi Majumdar

  • Talin: an emerging focal point of adhesion dynamics.

    Anjana Nayal;Donna J Webb;Alan F Horwitz

  • Extracellular signal-regulated kinase functions in the urokinase receptor-dependent pathway by which neutralization of low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein promotes fibrosarcoma cell migration and matrigel invasion.

    D.J. Webb;D.H. Nguyen;S.L. Gonias

  • Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator Stimulates the Ras/Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase (ERK) Signaling Pathway and MCF-7 Cell Migration by a Mechanism That Requires Focal Adhesion Kinase, Src, and Shc RAPID DISSOCIATION OF GRB2/SOS-SHC COMPLEX IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSIENT PHOSPHORYLATION OF ERK IN UROKINASE-TREATED CELLS

    Diem H.D. Nguyen;Donna J. Webb;Andrew D. Catling;Qian Song

  • Endogenously produced urokinase-type plasminogen activator is a major determinant of the basal level of activated ERK/MAP kinase and prevents apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.

    Zhong Ma;Donna J. Webb;Minji Jo;Steven L. Gonias

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Gonias
Steven L. Gonias University of California, San Diego
Deyu Li
Deyu Li Vanderbilt University
John A. McLean
John A. McLean Vanderbilt University
Alissa M. Weaver
Alissa M. Weaver Vanderbilt University
Ronald P. Taylor
Ronald P. Taylor University of Virginia
John P. Wikswo
John P. Wikswo Vanderbilt University
Simon W. Hayward
Simon W. Hayward NorthShore University HealthSystem
Vito Quaranta
Vito Quaranta Vanderbilt University
Miguel Vicente-Manzanares
Miguel Vicente-Manzanares University of Salamanca
Danny G. Winder
Danny G. Winder Vanderbilt University

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