Dr. Christine Lalonde

Fellowships:
- Mitacs Industrial Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship: SNOLAB and Bruce Power
- NASA's STAR (Spaceflight, Technology, Applications, and Research) Program
- Indigenous Mental Health: Investigating mental health needs of Indigenous children and youth, developing culturally relevant interventions, and fostering community partnerships.
- Fetal Programming and Epigenetics: Examining the effects of prenatal exposure to stressors (e.g., residential school trauma, discrimination, toxins) on mental health, with a focus on epigenetic effects and transgenerational trauma.
- Radiation Research: Exploring the biological impacts of low-dose and natural background radiation, including effects on behavior, neural development, and genetics.
- Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): Engaging Indigenous communities as active partners in all stages of the research process.
- Toxicology: Investigating toxicology and stress responses in fetal neural development.
Sreetharan S, Puukila S, Lalonde C, Pirkkanen J, Woloschak GE, Paunesku T, Brooks AL, McNeill FE, Thome C, Boreham DR, Lees SJ, Tharmalingam S, Tai TC. Comparison of Acute and Protracted Gamma Irradiation Effects During Perinatal Development in Beagle Dogs. Radiat Res. 2025 Feb 1;203(2):73-82. doi: 10.1667/RADE-24-00080.1. PMID: 39848282.
Jameus A, Dougherty J, Narendrula R, Levert D, Valiquette M, Pirkkanen J, Lalonde C, Bonin P, Gagnon JD, Appanna VD, Tharmalingam, S., Thome, C. (2024). Acute Impacts of Ionizing Radiation Exposure on the Gastrointestinal Tract and Gut Microbiome in Mice. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(6):3339. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25063339
Lalonde, C., Arnocky, S., (2023). Religion and Domestic Violence. In Shackelford, T., Vance, G., Meehan, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. Springer, Cham.
Lalonde C, Sreetharan S, Murray A, Stoa L, Cybulski ME, Kennedy A, Landry N, Stillar A, Khurana S, Tharmalingam S, Wilson J, Khaper N, Lees SJ, Boreham D, Tai T.C. (2023). Absence of Depressive and Anxious Behavior with Genetic Dysregulation in Adult C57Bl/6J Mice after Prenatal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(10):8466. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24108466
Pirkkanen J, Lalonde C, Lapointe M, Laframboise T, Mendonca MS, Boreham DR, Tharmalingam S, Thome C. (2023). The REPAIR Project, a Deep-Underground Radiobiology Experiment Investigating the Biological Effects of Natural Background Radiation: The First 6 Years. Radiation Research. doi: 10.1667/RADE-22-00193.1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36745561.
Lalonde C, Boreham D, Tai T.C. (2023). Fetal Programming of Brain and Behavior through Ionizing Radiation. Stresses. 2023; 3(1):198-209. https://doi.org/10.3390/stresses3010015
Rivet T.R., Lalonde C, Tai T.C. (2022). Gene Dysregulation in the Adult Rat Paraventricular Nucleus and Amygdala by Prenatal Exposure to Dexamethasone. Life, 12(7):1077. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12071077
Murray A., Tharmalingam S., Khurana S., Lalonde C., Nguyen P., Tai T.C. (2022) Effect of Prenatal Glucocorticoid Exposure on Circadian Rhythm Gene Expression in the Brains of Adult Rat Offspring. Cells. 11(10):1613. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11101613
Lalonde, C., Grandbois, J., Khurana, S., Murray, A., Tharmalingam, S., & Tai, T.C. (2021). Late gestational exposure to dexamethasone and fetal programming of abnormal behavior in Wistar Kyoto rats. Brain and Behavior, 11: e02049. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2049
Lalonde, C., Arnocky, S. (2021) Behavioral Genomics. Vonk, J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behaviour. Springer, Cham
Murray, A., Khurana, S., Lalonde, C., Tharmalingam, S., Nguyen, P., Tai, T.C. (2020). Effect of Prenatal Glucocorticoid Exposure on Circadian Rhythm Gene Expression in the Brains of Adult Rat Offspring. The FASEB Journal, 34: 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.04353
Lalonde, C. (2018) Fetal Development. In Arnocky, S., Weekes-Shackelford V., Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham
Lalonde, C. (2018) Hypertension. In Arnocky, S., Weekes-Shackelford V., Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham
Lalonde, C. (2018) Sleep-Wake Cycles. In Arnocky, S., Weekes-Shackelford V., Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham