Name
Dr Chantal Lanctôt
Location
G51 Gold Coast campus, 2.07
Phone
(07) 555 27813
E-mail
c.lanctot@griffith.edu.au
Links
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chantal_Lanctot
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantal-lanctôt-57390863/
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-9383
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55343627300
https://twitter.com/ChantalLanctot
Short bio
Dr Chantal Lanctot is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at the Australian Rivers Institute (ARI). Her research interests include understanding how pollutants negatively impact aquatic wildlife, with a particular emphasis on developmental and physiological effects in larval frogs. Her DECRA project entitled ‘Metal toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics in developing anurans: how metamorphosis influences metal burdens’ will be the first to explore how the mobilisation and transference of metal burdens during metamorphosis influences
toxicity in amphibians. By applying high-resolution analytical and imaging technologies, including X-ray fluorescence microscopy at the Australian Synchrotron, Chantal aims to unravel this interesting phenomenon to improve our knowledge of how complex life cycles influence the vulnerability of wildlife to toxic metal burdens.
Before starting her DECRA Chantal worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Monaco for 6 months, where she used nuclear tools to study the effects of microplastics and associated chemical contaminants on marine organisms. She completed her PhD at Central Queensland University (2016) on the toxicity of coal mine wastewater to freshwater organisms. Prior to moving to Australia, she received her Masters from the University of Ottawa in Canada, where she studied endocrine disrupting effects of glyphosate-based herbicides in tadpoles.
Position
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
2010 – 2012 MSc Master of Science – University of Ottawa
2006 – 2010 BSc Bachelor of Science (Biology) – University of Ottawa
Employment
Senior Research Assistant, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Australia 2016 – 2017
Casual Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia 2017
Grants
Australian Synchrotron Beamtime Grant, Australian Synchrotron 2017
Australian Synchrotron Beamtime Grant, Australian Synchrotron 2016
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Award, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) 2016
Scholarships
2013 – 2016 University Postgraduate Research Award, Central Queensland University
Journal articles
Lanctôt C.M., Cresswell T., Melvin S.D. (2017) Uptake and tissue distributions of cadmium, selenium and zinc in striped marsh frog tadpoles exposed during early post-embryonic development. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 144: 291–299.
Lanctôt C.M., Melvin S.D., Cresswell T. (2017) Selenium speciation influences bioaccumulation in Limnodynastes peronii tadpoles. Aquatic Toxicology 187: 1–8.
Lanctôt C., Wilson S.P., Fabbro L., Leusch F.D.L., Melvin S.D. (2016) Comparative sensitivity of aquatic invertebrate and vertebrate species to wastewater from an operational coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 129: 1–9.
Melvin S.D., Lanctôt C., van de Merwe J.P., Leusch F.D.L. (2016) Altered bioenergetics and developmental effects in striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii) tadpoles exposed to UV treated sewage. Aquatic Toxicology 175: 30–38.
Lanctôt C., Bennett W., Wilson S.P., Fabbro L., Leusch F.D.L., Melvin S.D. (2016) Behaviour, development and metal accumulation in striped marsh frog tadpoles (Limnodynastes peronii) exposed to coal mine wastewater. Aquatic Toxicology 173: 218–227.
Lanctôt C., Melvin S.D., Fabbro L., Leusch F.D.L., Wilson S.P. (2016) Effects of coal mine wastewater on locomotor and non-locomotor activities of empire gudgeons (Hypseleotris compressa). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 127: 37–42.
Lanctôt C., Melvin S.D., Leusch F.D.L., Wilson S.P., Fabbro L. (2016) Locomotor and behavioural responses of empire gudgeons (Hypseleotris compressa) exposed to coal mine wastewater. Chemosphere 144: 1560–1566.
Bulaeva E., Lanctôt C., Reynolds L., Trudeau V. L., Navarro-Martín L. (2015) Sodium perchlorate disrupts development and affects metamorphosis- and growth-related gene expression in tadpoles of the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology 222: 33–43.
Lanctôt C., Navarro-Martín L., Robertson C., Park B.J., Jackman P., Pauli B.D., Trudeau V.L. (2014) Effects of glyphosate-based herbicides on survival, development, growth and sex ratios of wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles. II: Agriculturally relevant exposures to Roundup WeatherMax® and Vision® under laboratory conditions. Aquatic Toxicology 154: 291–303.
Navarro-Martín L., Lanctôt C., Jackman P., Park B.J., Doe K., Pauli B.D., Trudeau V.L. (2014) Effects of glyphosate-based herbicides on survival, development, growth and sex ratios of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles. I: Chronic laboratory exposures to VisionMax®. Aquatic Toxicology 154: 278–290.
Melvin S.D., Cameron M.C., Lanctôt C.M. (2014) Individual and mixture toxicity of pharmaceuticals naproxen, carbamazepine, and sulfamethoxazole to Australian striped marsh frog tadpoles (Limnodynastes peronii). Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A 77(6): 337–45.
Lanctôt C., Robertson C., Navarro-Martín L., Edge C., Melvin S.D., Houlahan J., Trudeau V.L. (2013) Effects of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup WeatherMax® on metamorphosis of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) in natural wetlands. Aquatic Toxicology 140–141: 48–57.
Melvin D., Lanctôt C.M., Craig P.M., Moon T.W., Peru K.M., Headley J.V., Trudeau V.L. (2013) Effects of naphthenic acid exposure on development and liver metabolic processes in anuran tadpoles. Environmental Pollution 177: 22–27.
Navarro-Martín L., Lanctôt C., Edge, C., Houlahan J., Trudeau V.L. (2012) Expression profiles of metamorphosis-related genes during natural transformations in tadpoles of wild Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 90: 1059–1071.
Navarro-Martín L., Velasco-Santamaría Y.M., Duarte-Guterman P., Robertson C., Lanctôt C., Pauli B., Trudeau V.L. (2012) Sexing frogs by real-time PCR: Using aromatase (cyp19) as an early ovarian differentiation marker. Sexual Development 6: 303–315.
Awards and travel grants
Finalist for the 2016 Women in Technology PhD Career Start Award, Women in Technology (WiT) 2016 – 2016
SETAC Student Travel Award, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 2016 – 2016
AINSE International Travel Award, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) 2017 – 2017