Staff profile
Overview
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Dr Lena Riabinina
Associate Professor
Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences | 211 | +44 (0) 191 33 41282 |
Biography
Research interests
- Black soldier flies
- mosquitoes
- Drosophila
- bumblebees
- development of genetic tools
- sensory neuroscience
- neuroethology
- olfaction
- sensory ecology
Publications
Chapter in book
- Fölsz, O., Lin, C., Task, D., Riabinina, O., & Potter, C. J. (2022). The Q-system: A Versatile Repressible Binary Expression System. In Drosophila: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2541-5_2
- Riabinina, O., & Potter, C. (2016). The Q-System: A Versatile Expression System for Drosophila. In Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6371-3_3
Journal Article
- Wheelwright, M., Whittle, C., & Riabinina, O. (in press). Olfactory systems across mosquito species. Cell and Tissue Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-020-03407-2
- Gomez Ramirez, W. C., Thomas, N. K., Muktar, I. J., & Riabinina, O. (2023). The neuroecology of olfaction in bees. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2023.101018
- Riabinina, O., Quinn, M., & Whitehead, J. (2022). Genetic Toolbox Approaches in Mosquitoes. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.top107691
- Langridge, K. V., Wilke, C., Riabinina, O., Vorobyev, M., & Hempel de Ibarra, N. (2021). Approach Direction Prior to Landing Explains Patterns of Colour Learning in Bees. Frontiers in Physiology, 12, Article 697886. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.697886
- Redhai, S., Pilgrim, C., Gaspar, P., Giesen, L. V., Lopes, T., Riabinina, O., …Miguel-Aliaga, I. (2020). An intestinal zinc sensor regulates food intake and developmental growth. Nature, 580(7802), 263-268. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2111-5
- Mansourian, S., Fandino, R., & Riabinina, O. (2019). Progress in the use of genetic methods to study insect behavior outside Drosophila. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 36, 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.08.001
- Afify, A., Betz, J., Riabinina, O., Lahondere, C., & Potter, C. (2019). Commonly Used Insect Repellents Hide Human Odors from Anopheles Mosquitoes. Current Biology, 29(21), 3669-3680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.007
- Riabinina, O., Vernon, S., Dickson, B., & Baines, R. (2019). Split-QF System for Fine-Tuned Transgene Expression in Drosophila. Genetics, 212(1), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.119.302034
- Riabinina, O., Task, D., Marr, E., Lin, C., Alford, R., O'Brochta, D., & Potter, C. (2016). Organization of olfactory centres in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Nature Communications, 7(1), Article 13010. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13010
- Lin, C., Riabinina, O., & Potter, C. (2016). Olfactory Behaviors Assayed by Computer Tracking Of Drosophila in a Four-quadrant Olfactometer. Journal of Visualized Experiments, Article e54346. https://doi.org/10.3791/54346
- Gao, X., Riabinina, O., Li, J., Potter, C., Clandinin, T., & Luo, L. (2015). A transcriptional reporter of intracellular Ca2+ in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience, 18(6), 917-925. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4016
- Riabinina, O., Luginbuhl, D., Marr, E., Liu, S., Wu, M., Luo, L., & Potter, C. (2015). Improved and expanded Q-system reagents for genetic manipulations. Nature Methods, 12(3), 219-222. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3250
- Riabinina, O., de Ibarra, N., Philippides, A., & Collett, T. (2014). Head movements and the optic flow generated during the learning flights of bumblebees. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217(15), 2633-2642. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.102897
- Philippides, A., de Ibarra, N., Riabinina, O., & Collett, T. (2013). Bumblebee calligraphy: the design and control of flight motifs in the learning and return flights of Bombus terrestris. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(6), 1093–1104. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.081455
- Collett, T., de Ibarra, N., Riabinina, O., & Philippides, A. (2013). Coordinating compass-based and nest-based flight directions during bumblebee learning and return flights. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(6), https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.081463
- Riabinina, O., Dai, M., Duke, T., & Albert, J. (2011). Active Process Mediates Species-Specific Tuning of Drosophila Ears. Current Biology, 21(8), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.001
- Riabinina, O., de Ibarra, N., Howard, L., & Collett, T. (2011). Do wood ants learn sequences of visual stimuli?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214(16), https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.058537
- de Ibarra, N., Philippides, A., Riabinina, O., & Collett, T. (2009). Preferred viewing directions of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris L.) when learning and approaching their nest site. Journal of Experimental Biology, 212(20), https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.029751
- Riabinina, O., & Philippides, A. (2009). A model of visual detection of angular speed for bees. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 257(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.11.002
Supervision students
Miss Bethany Jetson
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Miss Iman Muktar
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Mr Matthew Quinn
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Mrs Wendy Gomez Ramirez
Research Postgraduate (PhD)