Dr Lena Constantin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Queensland Brain Institute

+61 7 334 69873

l.constantin@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

I am a biomedical research scientist with over ten years of laboratory experience in molecular genetics and neurobiology. My research interests are in the development and function of the cerebellum. Currently I am investigating the link between cerebellar dysfunction and autism spectrum disorder. This research is funded by consecutive grants from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.

Publications

Book Chapter (1)

Journal Articles (5)

Data Collection (1)

Thesis (1)

Dataset Collections (3)

Book Chapter

Constantin, Lena (2018). Circular RNAs and neuronal development. Circular RNAs: biogenesis and functions. (pp. 205-213) edited by Junjie Xiao. Singapore: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-1426-1_16

Journal Articles

Constantin, Lena, Poulsen, Rebecca E., Scholz, Leandro A., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Taylor, Michael A., Sun, Biao, Goodhill, Geoffrey J., Vanwalleghem, Gilles C. and Scott, Ethan K. (2020). Altered brain-wide auditory networks in a zebrafish model of fragile X syndrome. BMC Biology, 18 (1) 125, 125. doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-00857-6

Nelson, Caroline N., List, Edward O., Ieremia, Makerita, Constantin, Lena, Chhabra, Yash, Kopchick, John J. and Waters, Michael J. (2018) Growth hormone activated STAT5 is required for induction of beige fat in vivo. Growth Hormone & IGF Research, 42-43 40-51. doi:10.1016/j.ghir.2018.08.004

Constantin, Lena (2017). The role of microRNAs in cerebellar development and autism spectrum disorder during embryogenesis. Molecular Neurobiology, 54 (9), 6944-6959. doi: 10.1007/s12035-016-0220-9

Constantin, Lena, Constantin, Myrna and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2016). MicroRNA biogenesis and hedgehog-patched signaling cooperate to regulate an important developmental transition in granule cell development. Genetics, 202 (3), 1105-1118. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.184176

Constantin, Lena and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2015). MicroRNAs promote granule cell expansion in the cerebellum through Gli2. Cerebellum, 14 (6), 688-698. doi: 10.1007/s12311-015-0672-x

Data Collection

Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Scott, Ethan and Constantin, Lena (2020). Real and artificial data used in the analysis. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/63584b3

Thesis

Constantin, Lena (2011). The Role of Dicer in Cerebellar Development and Hedgehog-Mediated Medulloblastoma. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland.

Dataset Collections

Constantin, Lena, Scott, Ethan, Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Poulsen, Rebecca, Scholz, Leandro Aluisio and Bissett, Wyatt (2020): Auditory Sensitivity Experiments. The University of Queensland. Dataset. doi:10.14264/aa37c6d

Constantin, Lena, Scott, Ethan, Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Poulsen, Rebecca and Scholz, Leandro Aluisio (2020): Baseline Experiments. The University of Queensland. Dataset. doi:10.14264/06dea52

Constantin, Lena, Scott, Ethan, Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Poulsen, Rebecca and Scholz, Leandro Aluisio (2020): Multisensory Experiments. The University of Queensland. Dataset. doi:10.14264/cf6e784