Dr Lena Constantin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
+61 7 334 69873

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 brain.
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
Poulsen, Rebecca E., Scholz, Leandro A., Constantin, Lena, Favre-Bulle, Itia, Vanwalleghem, Gilles C. and Scott, Ethan K. (2021). Broad frequency sensitivity and complex neural coding in the larval zebrafish auditory system. Current Biology, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.103
Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Constantin, Lena and Scott, Ethan K (2021). Calcium imaging and the curse of negativity. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 14 607391, 607391. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2020.607391
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
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.
Data Collections
Constantin, Lena, Scott, Ethan, Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Poulsen, Rebecca and Scholz, Leandro Aluisio (2020). Multisensory Experiments. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/cf6e784
Constantin, Lena, Scott, Ethan, Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Poulsen, Rebecca and Scholz, Leandro Aluisio (2020). Baseline Experiments. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/06dea52
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
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