Oana Constantin

Oana Constantin is a fourth-year PhD candidate at the Institute for Synaptic Physiology in Hamburg, Germany.

Her work revolves around developing optogenetic tools that enable the control of neuronal activity through the use of light. Her PhD project focuses on using optogenetic tools that manipulate intracellular molecular cascades (such as cAMP and cGMP) in order to assess their effects on synaptic transmission.

Oana has completed her studies at UAIC University of Iasi in 2014 with a B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry. She then received a DAAD study scholarship that enabled her to pursue a M.Sc. degree in Neuroscience at Bremen University, Germany.

Publications

Beck S, Yu-Strzelczyk J, Pauls D, Constantin OM, Gee CE, Ehmann N, Kittel RJ, Nagel G, Gao S. Synthetic Light-Activated Ion Channels for Optogenetic Activation and Inhibition. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2018 Oct 2; 12:643Scheib U, Broser M, Constantin OM, Yang S, Gao S, Mukherjee S, Stehfest K, Nagel G, Gee CE, Hegemann P. Rhodopsin-cyclases for photocontrol of cGMP/cAMP and 2.3 Å structure of the adenylyl cyclase domain. Nature Communications. 2018 May 24; 9(1):2046Constantin OM, Mihasan M. Gene cloning of a putative periplasmic sugar-binding protein from the pAO1 megaplasmid of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans. Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi. 2014