Dr Gabriela-Oana Bodea

UQ Amplify Researcher

Queensland Brain Institute
g.bodea@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 37688

Overview

Dr Gabriela Bodea completed her PhD with highest honours (Summa cum laude) in April 2014 in the laboratory of Prof. Sandra Blaess at the University of Bonn, Germany. Dr Bodea's PhD work was focused on understanding developmental mechanisms leading to neuronal diversity in the mammalian brain. In June 2014, Dr Bodea joined the Genome Plasticity and Disease group at the Mater Research Institute, Australia, where she began investigating the role of LINE-1 retrotransposons, a class of mobile DNA elements colloquially referred to as "jumping genes", in creating genetic variability within neurons. In 2017, Dr Bodea moved to the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, to continue her work on understanding the impact of LINE-1 retrotransposon activity on specific subpopulations of neurons focusing on its potential link to neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease. Dr Bodea's work has been supported by prestigious fellowships awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development scheme. Dr. Bodea has published in top journals, such as Cell, Cell Reports, Genome Research, and Development. Dr Bodea has also been involved in the training and mentorship of PhD students and participated in course coordination and lecturing activities.

Research Interests

  • Mobile DNA and its impact on gene regulation in the brain
  • Selective neuronal vulnerability to neurodegneration

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bonn

Publications

  • Gerdes, Patricia, Chan, Dorothy, Lundberg, Mischa, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela O., Ewing, Adam D., Faulkner, Geoffrey J. and Richardson, Sandra R. (2023). Locus-resolution analysis of L1 regulation and retrotransposition potential in mouse embryonic development. Genome Research, 33 (9), 1465-1481. doi: 10.1101/gr.278003.123

  • Billon, Victor, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J, Rasmussen, Jay, Bodea, Gabriela O, Gerhardt, Daniel J, Gerdes, Patricia, Cheetham, Seth W, Schauer, Stephanie N, Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Meyer, Thomas J, Layman, Cora E, Nevonen, Kimberly A, Jansz, Natasha, Garcia-Perez, Jose L, Richardson, Sandra R, Ewing, Adam D, Carbone, Lucia and Faulkner, Geoffrey J (2022). Somatic retrotransposition in the developing rhesus macaque brain. Genome Research, 32 (7), gr.276451.121-1314. doi: 10.1101/gr.276451.121

  • Tolve, Marianna , Ulusoy, Ayse, Patikas, Nikolaos, Islam, K. Ushna S. , Bodea, Gabriela O. , Öztürk, Ece, Broske, Bianca, Mentani, Astrid , Wagener, Antonia , van Loo, Karen M.J. , Britsch, Stefan , Liu, Pengtao , Khaled, Walid T. , Metzakopian, Emmanouil , Baader, Stephan L. , Di Monte, Donato A. and Blaess, Sandra (2021). The transcription factor BCL11A defines distinct subsets of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Cell Reports, 36 (11) 109697, 109697. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109697

  • Smits, Nathan, Rasmussen, Jay, Bodea, Gabriela O., Amarilla, Alberto A., Gerdes, Patricia, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Modhiran, Naphak, Liang, Benjamin, Faivre, Jamila, Deveson, Ira W., Khromykh, Alexander A., Watterson, Daniel, Ewing, Adam D. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2021). No evidence of human genome integration of SARS-CoV-2 found by long-read DNA sequencing. Cell Reports, 36 (7) 109530, 109530. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109530

  • Bodea, Gabriela O., McKelvey, Eleanor G. Z. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2018). Retrotransposon-induced mosaicism in the neural genome. Open Biology, 8 (7) 180074, 180074. doi: 10.1098/rsob.180074

  • Richardson, Sandra R., Gerdes, Patricia, Gerhardt, Daniel J., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela-Oana, Muñoz-Lopez, Martin, Jesuadian, J. Samuel, Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Carreira, Patricia E., Jeddeloh, Jeffrey A., Garcia-Perez, Jose L., Kazazian Jr., Haig H., Ewing, Adam D. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2017). Heritable L1 retrotransposition in the mouse primordial germline and early embryo. Genome Research, 27 (8), 1395-1405. doi: 10.1101/gr.219022.116

  • Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Bodea, Gabriela O. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2017). Neuronal genome plasticity: retrotransposons, environment and disease. Human retrotransposons in health and disease. (pp. 107-125) edited by Gael Cristofari. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-48344-3_5

  • Bodea, Gabriela O. and Blaess, Sandra (2015). Establishing diversity in the dopaminergic system. FEBS Letters (Federation of European Biochemical Socities), 589 (24, Part A), 3773-3785. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.09.016

  • Upton, Kyle R., Gerhardt, Daniel J., Jesuadian, J. Samuel, Richardson, Sandra R., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela O., Ewing, Adam D., Salvador-Palomeque, Carmen, van der Knaap, Mario S., Brennan, Paul M., Vanderver, Adeline and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2015). Ubiquitous L1 mosaicism in hippocampal neurons. Cell, 161 (2), 228-239. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.03.026

  • Bodea, Gabriela Oana, Spille, Jan-Hendrik, Abe, Philipp, Andersson, Aycan Senturk, Acker-Palmer, Amparo, Stumm, Ralf, Kubitscheck, Ulrich and Blaess, Sandra (2014). Reelin and CXCL12 regulate distinct migratory behaviors during the development of the dopaminergic system. Development, 141 (3), 661-673. doi: 10.1242/dev.099937

  • Blaess, Sandra, Bodea, Gabriela O., Kabanova, Anna, Chanet, Soline, Mugniery, Emilie, Derouiche, Amin, Stephen, Daniel and Joyner, Alexandra L. (2011). Temporal-spatial changes in Sonic Hedgehog expression and signaling reveal different potentials of ventral mesencephalic progenitors to populate distinct ventral midbrain nuclei. Neural Development, 6 (29) 1749. doi: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-29

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

  • Gerdes, Patricia, Chan, Dorothy, Lundberg, Mischa, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela O., Ewing, Adam D., Faulkner, Geoffrey J. and Richardson, Sandra R. (2023). Locus-resolution analysis of L1 regulation and retrotransposition potential in mouse embryonic development. Genome Research, 33 (9), 1465-1481. doi: 10.1101/gr.278003.123

  • Billon, Victor, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J, Rasmussen, Jay, Bodea, Gabriela O, Gerhardt, Daniel J, Gerdes, Patricia, Cheetham, Seth W, Schauer, Stephanie N, Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Meyer, Thomas J, Layman, Cora E, Nevonen, Kimberly A, Jansz, Natasha, Garcia-Perez, Jose L, Richardson, Sandra R, Ewing, Adam D, Carbone, Lucia and Faulkner, Geoffrey J (2022). Somatic retrotransposition in the developing rhesus macaque brain. Genome Research, 32 (7), gr.276451.121-1314. doi: 10.1101/gr.276451.121

  • Tolve, Marianna , Ulusoy, Ayse, Patikas, Nikolaos, Islam, K. Ushna S. , Bodea, Gabriela O. , Öztürk, Ece, Broske, Bianca, Mentani, Astrid , Wagener, Antonia , van Loo, Karen M.J. , Britsch, Stefan , Liu, Pengtao , Khaled, Walid T. , Metzakopian, Emmanouil , Baader, Stephan L. , Di Monte, Donato A. and Blaess, Sandra (2021). The transcription factor BCL11A defines distinct subsets of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Cell Reports, 36 (11) 109697, 109697. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109697

  • Smits, Nathan, Rasmussen, Jay, Bodea, Gabriela O., Amarilla, Alberto A., Gerdes, Patricia, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Modhiran, Naphak, Liang, Benjamin, Faivre, Jamila, Deveson, Ira W., Khromykh, Alexander A., Watterson, Daniel, Ewing, Adam D. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2021). No evidence of human genome integration of SARS-CoV-2 found by long-read DNA sequencing. Cell Reports, 36 (7) 109530, 109530. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109530

  • Bodea, Gabriela O., McKelvey, Eleanor G. Z. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2018). Retrotransposon-induced mosaicism in the neural genome. Open Biology, 8 (7) 180074, 180074. doi: 10.1098/rsob.180074

  • Richardson, Sandra R., Gerdes, Patricia, Gerhardt, Daniel J., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela-Oana, Muñoz-Lopez, Martin, Jesuadian, J. Samuel, Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Carreira, Patricia E., Jeddeloh, Jeffrey A., Garcia-Perez, Jose L., Kazazian Jr., Haig H., Ewing, Adam D. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2017). Heritable L1 retrotransposition in the mouse primordial germline and early embryo. Genome Research, 27 (8), 1395-1405. doi: 10.1101/gr.219022.116

  • Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Bodea, Gabriela O. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2017). Neuronal genome plasticity: retrotransposons, environment and disease. Human retrotransposons in health and disease. (pp. 107-125) edited by Gael Cristofari. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-48344-3_5

  • Bodea, Gabriela O. and Blaess, Sandra (2015). Establishing diversity in the dopaminergic system. FEBS Letters (Federation of European Biochemical Socities), 589 (24, Part A), 3773-3785. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.09.016

  • Upton, Kyle R., Gerhardt, Daniel J., Jesuadian, J. Samuel, Richardson, Sandra R., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela O., Ewing, Adam D., Salvador-Palomeque, Carmen, van der Knaap, Mario S., Brennan, Paul M., Vanderver, Adeline and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2015). Ubiquitous L1 mosaicism in hippocampal neurons. Cell, 161 (2), 228-239. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.03.026

  • Bodea, Gabriela Oana, Spille, Jan-Hendrik, Abe, Philipp, Andersson, Aycan Senturk, Acker-Palmer, Amparo, Stumm, Ralf, Kubitscheck, Ulrich and Blaess, Sandra (2014). Reelin and CXCL12 regulate distinct migratory behaviors during the development of the dopaminergic system. Development, 141 (3), 661-673. doi: 10.1242/dev.099937

  • Blaess, Sandra, Bodea, Gabriela O., Kabanova, Anna, Chanet, Soline, Mugniery, Emilie, Derouiche, Amin, Stephen, Daniel and Joyner, Alexandra L. (2011). Temporal-spatial changes in Sonic Hedgehog expression and signaling reveal different potentials of ventral mesencephalic progenitors to populate distinct ventral midbrain nuclei. Neural Development, 6 (29) 1749. doi: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-29

Book Chapter

  • Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Bodea, Gabriela O. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2017). Neuronal genome plasticity: retrotransposons, environment and disease. Human retrotransposons in health and disease. (pp. 107-125) edited by Gael Cristofari. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-48344-3_5

Journal Article

  • Bodea, Gabriela O., Botto, Juan M., Ferreiro, Maria E., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., de los Rios Barreda, Jose, Rasmussen, Jay, Rahman, Muhammed A., Fenlon, Laura R., Jansz, Natasha, Gubert, Carolina, Gerdes, Patricia, Bodea, Liviu-Gabriel, Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Da Costa Guevara, Darwin J., Cumner, Linda, Bell, Charles C., Kozulin, Peter, Billon, Victor, Morell, Santiago, Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Love, Chloe J., Saha, Karabi, Palmer, Lucy M., Ewing, Adam D., Jhaveri, Dhanisha J., Richardson, Sandra R., Hannan, Anthony J. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2024). LINE-1 retrotransposons contribute to mouse PV interneuron development. Nature Neuroscience, 1-34. doi: 10.1038/s41593-024-01650-2

  • Madrid, Lidia I., Hafey, Katelyn, Bandhavkar, Saurabh, Bodea, Gabriela O., Jimenez-Martin, Javier, Milne, Michael, Walker, Tara L., Faulkner, Geoffrey J., Coulson, Elizabeth J. and Jhaveri, Dhanisha J. (2024). Stimulation of the muscarinic receptor M4 regulates neural precursor cell proliferation and promotes adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Development, 151 (1) dev201835, 1-13. doi: 10.1242/dev.201835

  • Gerdes, Patricia, Chan, Dorothy, Lundberg, Mischa, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela O., Ewing, Adam D., Faulkner, Geoffrey J. and Richardson, Sandra R. (2023). Locus-resolution analysis of L1 regulation and retrotransposition potential in mouse embryonic development. Genome Research, 33 (9), 1465-1481. doi: 10.1101/gr.278003.123

  • Bodea, Gabriela O. and Yemisci, Muge (2023). Methods and applications in cellular neuropathology.. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 17 1244414, 1244414. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1244414

  • Billon, Victor, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J, Rasmussen, Jay, Bodea, Gabriela O, Gerhardt, Daniel J, Gerdes, Patricia, Cheetham, Seth W, Schauer, Stephanie N, Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Meyer, Thomas J, Layman, Cora E, Nevonen, Kimberly A, Jansz, Natasha, Garcia-Perez, Jose L, Richardson, Sandra R, Ewing, Adam D, Carbone, Lucia and Faulkner, Geoffrey J (2022). Somatic retrotransposition in the developing rhesus macaque brain. Genome Research, 32 (7), gr.276451.121-1314. doi: 10.1101/gr.276451.121

  • Bodea, Gabriela O., Ferreiro, Maria E., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Botto, Juan M., Rasmussen, Jay, Rahman, Muhammed A., Fenlon, Laura R., Gubert, Carolina, Gerdes, Patricia, Bodea, Liviu-Gabriel, Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Kozulin, Peter, Billon, Victor, Morell, Santiago, Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H.C., Love, Chloe J., Palmer, Lucy M., Ewing, Adam D., Jhaveri, Dhanisha J., Richardson, Sandra R., Hannan, Anthony J. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2022). LINE-1 retrotransposon activation intrinsic to interneuron development.

  • Tolve, Marianna , Ulusoy, Ayse, Patikas, Nikolaos, Islam, K. Ushna S. , Bodea, Gabriela O. , Öztürk, Ece, Broske, Bianca, Mentani, Astrid , Wagener, Antonia , van Loo, Karen M.J. , Britsch, Stefan , Liu, Pengtao , Khaled, Walid T. , Metzakopian, Emmanouil , Baader, Stephan L. , Di Monte, Donato A. and Blaess, Sandra (2021). The transcription factor BCL11A defines distinct subsets of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Cell Reports, 36 (11) 109697, 109697. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109697

  • Rasmussen, Jay, Ewing, Adam D., Bodea, Liviu‐Gabriel, Bodea, Gabriela O., Gearing, Marla and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2021). An early proinflammatory transcriptional response to tau pathology is age‐specific and foreshadows reduced tau burden. Brain Pathology, 32 (3) e13018, e13018. doi: 10.1111/bpa.13018

  • Smits, Nathan, Rasmussen, Jay, Bodea, Gabriela O., Amarilla, Alberto A., Gerdes, Patricia, Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Ajjikuttira, Prabha, Modhiran, Naphak, Liang, Benjamin, Faivre, Jamila, Deveson, Ira W., Khromykh, Alexander A., Watterson, Daniel, Ewing, Adam D. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2021). No evidence of human genome integration of SARS-CoV-2 found by long-read DNA sequencing. Cell Reports, 36 (7) 109530, 109530. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109530

  • Bodea, Gabriela O., McKelvey, Eleanor G. Z. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2018). Retrotransposon-induced mosaicism in the neural genome. Open Biology, 8 (7) 180074, 180074. doi: 10.1098/rsob.180074

  • Richardson, Sandra R., Gerdes, Patricia, Gerhardt, Daniel J., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela-Oana, Muñoz-Lopez, Martin, Jesuadian, J. Samuel, Kempen, Marie-Jeanne H. C., Carreira, Patricia E., Jeddeloh, Jeffrey A., Garcia-Perez, Jose L., Kazazian Jr., Haig H., Ewing, Adam D. and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2017). Heritable L1 retrotransposition in the mouse primordial germline and early embryo. Genome Research, 27 (8), 1395-1405. doi: 10.1101/gr.219022.116

  • Bodea, Gabriela O. and Blaess, Sandra (2015). Establishing diversity in the dopaminergic system. FEBS Letters (Federation of European Biochemical Socities), 589 (24, Part A), 3773-3785. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.09.016

  • Upton, Kyle R., Gerhardt, Daniel J., Jesuadian, J. Samuel, Richardson, Sandra R., Sanchez-Luque, Francisco J., Bodea, Gabriela O., Ewing, Adam D., Salvador-Palomeque, Carmen, van der Knaap, Mario S., Brennan, Paul M., Vanderver, Adeline and Faulkner, Geoffrey J. (2015). Ubiquitous L1 mosaicism in hippocampal neurons. Cell, 161 (2), 228-239. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.03.026

  • Bodea, Gabriela Oana, Spille, Jan-Hendrik, Abe, Philipp, Andersson, Aycan Senturk, Acker-Palmer, Amparo, Stumm, Ralf, Kubitscheck, Ulrich and Blaess, Sandra (2014). Reelin and CXCL12 regulate distinct migratory behaviors during the development of the dopaminergic system. Development, 141 (3), 661-673. doi: 10.1242/dev.099937

  • Barry, David, Roque, Hélio, Dumoux, Maud, Kriston-Vizi, Janos, Bodea, Gabriela O. and Harper, Callista (2013). Meeting report. Imaging in cell biology: where next?. Journal of Cell Science, 126 (1), 43-44. doi: 10.1242/jcs.129197

  • Bodea, Gabriela Oana and Blaess, Sandra (2012). Organotypic slice cultures of embryonic ventral midbrain: a system to study dopaminergic neuronal development in vitro. Journal of Visualized Experiments : JoVE (59) e3350, e3350. doi: 10.3791/3350

  • Blaess, Sandra, Bodea, Gabriela O., Kabanova, Anna, Chanet, Soline, Mugniery, Emilie, Derouiche, Amin, Stephen, Daniel and Joyner, Alexandra L. (2011). Temporal-spatial changes in Sonic Hedgehog expression and signaling reveal different potentials of ventral mesencephalic progenitors to populate distinct ventral midbrain nuclei. Neural Development, 6 (29) 1749. doi: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-29

  • Dinu, Diana, Bodea, Gabriela Oana, Ceapa, Corina Diana, Munteanu, Maria Cristina, Roming, Florentina Israel, Serban, Andreea Iren, Hermenean, Anca, Costache, Marieta, Zarnescu, Otilia and Dinischiotu, Anca (2011). Adapted response of the antioxidant defense system to oxidative stress induced by deoxynivalenol in Hek-293 cells. Toxicon, 57 (7-8), 1023-1032. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.04.006

  • Bodea, G. O. Dragomir, Munteanu, M. C., Dinu, D., Serban, A. I., Roming, F. Israel, Costache, M. and Dinischiotu, A. (2009). Influence of deoxynivalenol on the oxidative status of HepG2 cells. Romanian Biotechnological Letters, 14 (2), 4349-4359.

  • Dragomir, G., Huculeci, R., Munteanu, C., Ceapa, C., Bodea, L. and Dinischiotu, A. (2007). The effect of deoxynivalenol on hepatic cell line HepG2. Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry, 23 (5-6-1), 583-588. doi: 10.2298/bah0701583d

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Note for students: Dr Gabriela-Oana Bodea is not currently available to take on new students.

Current Supervision