🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Alaina H. Willet

Vanderbilt University

ORCID: 0000-0002-0163-4772

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 16 papers. Top paper: “Opposite Surfaces of the Cdc15 F-BAR Domain Create a Membrane Platform That Coordinates Cytoskeletal and Signaling Components for Cytokinesis”.

Opposite Surfaces of the Cdc15 F-BAR Domain Create a Membrane Platform That Coordinates Cytoskeletal and Signaling Components for Cytokinesis

Cell Reports(2020)10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108526

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21 citations

Mintu Chandra, Nathan A. McDonald, Alaina H. Willet, Scott E. Collier, Melanie D. Ohi +3 more

Fission yeast Opy1 is an endogenous PI(4,5)P2 sensor that binds to the phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase Its3

Journal of Cell Science(2020)10.1242/jcs.247973

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5 citations

Alaina H. Willet, HannahSofia Brown, Jun‐Song Chen, Joshua M. Evers, Kathleen L. Gould +1 more

Phosphorylation in the intrinsically disordered region of F-BAR protein Imp2 regulates its contractile ring recruitment

Journal of Cell Science(2021)10.1242/jcs.258645

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9 citations

Maya G. Igarashi, Jun‐Song Chen, Rahul Bhattacharjee, Liping Ren, Sierra N. Cullati +6 more

Elevated levels of sphingolipid MIPC in the plasma membrane disrupt the coordination of cell growth with cell wall formation in fission yeast

PLoS Genetics(2023)10.1371/journal.pgen.1010987

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4 citations

Marcin Woś, Maya G. Igarashi, Liping Ren, Lesley Turner, Kathleen L. Gould +1 more

Characterization of Pik1 function in fission yeast reveals its conserved role in lipid synthesis and not cytokinesis

Journal of Cell Science(2023)10.1242/jcs.261415

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8 citations

Lesley Turner, Joshua S. Park, Liping Ren, Chloe E. Snider, Kathleen L. Gould +1 more

Polarity kinases that phosphorylate F-BAR protein Cdc15 have unique localization patterns during cytokinesis and contributions to preventing tip septation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

PubMed(2023)10.17912/micropub.biology.000965

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Rahul Bhattacharjee, Alaina H. Willet, Kathleen L. Gould, Maya G. Igarashi

Isolation of mutant alleles of the U6 snRNA m6A methyltransferase Mtl16 and characterization of their genetic interactions with splicing mutants in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

PubMed(2023)10.17912/micropub.biology.000948

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Liping Ren, Lesley Turner, Kathleen L. Gould, Alaina H. Willet

Generation and characterization of temperature-sensitive alleles of the glucanosyltransferase Gas1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

PubMed(2024)10.17912/micropub.biology.001144

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2 citations

Bita Tavafoghi, Maya G. Igarashi, Liping Ren, Alaina H. Willet, Kathleen L. Gould +1 more

Fission yeast Duc1 links to ER–PM contact sites and influences PM lipid composition and cytokinetic ring anchoring

Journal of Cell Science(2024)10.1242/jcs.262347

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2 citations

Joshua S. Park, Chloe E. Snider, Jingdian Jamie Huang, Jun‐Song Chen, Kathleen L. Gould +1 more

New mutations in the core Schizosaccharomyces pombe spindle pole body scaffold Ppc89 reveal separable functions in regulating cell division

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics(2024)10.1093/g3journal/jkae249

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Bita Tavafoghi, Jun‐Song Chen, Isaac V Howard, Liping Ren, Alaina H. Willet +2 more

The core spindle pole body scaffold Ppc89 links the pericentrin orthologue Pcp1 to the fission yeast spindle pole body via an evolutionarily conserved interface

Molecular Biology of the Cell(2024)10.1091/mbc.e24-05-0220

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Maya G. Igarashi, Liping Ren, Sarah M Hanna, Lesley Turner, Nathan A. McDonald +4 more

Generation and characterization of temperature-sensitive alleles encoding GPI anchored proteins Psu1 and Dfg502 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

PubMed(2024)10.17912/micropub.biology.001179

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Liping Ren, Kathleen L. Gould, Alaina H. Willet, Bita Tavafoghi

Characterization of temperature-sensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutants in the septation initiation network Spg1 GTPase

PubMed(2024)10.17912/micropub.biology.001193

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Lesley A Turner, Liping Ren, Alaina H. Willet, Kathleen L. Gould, Anna Bowman Fletcher

α-glucan remodeling by GH13-domain enzymes shapes fungal cell wall architecture

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2025)10.1073/pnas.2505509122

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13 citations

Alaina H. Willet, Maya G. Igarashi, Mustapha El Hariri El Nokab, Lesley Turner, Abdulrahman Khalid A. Alsanad +3 more

Oligomerization and exocyst coupling underlie Spa2-mediated focusing of polarized growth in fission yeast

Journal of Cell Science(2025)10.1242/jcs.264071

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Alaina H. Willet, Kathleen L. Gould, Liping Ren

The mitotic functions of a fission yeast CK1 enzyme are regulated by Cdk1-dependent and auto-phosphorylation

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2025)10.1016/j.jbc.2025.111007

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Sierra N. Cullati, Alyssa E. Johnson, Jun‐Song Chen, Alaina H. Willet, Kathleen L. Gould +1 more