ZFIN Lab: McMenamin Lab

ZFIN ID: ZDB-LAB-220420-1

ZFIN ID: ZDB-LAB-220420-1

McMenamin Lab

PI/Director:	McMenamin, Sarah
Contact Person:	McMenamin, Sarah
Email:	mcmenams@bc.edu
URL:	https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/mcmenamin-lab/home
Address:	Boston College Biology Department 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill MA 02467
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Line Designation:	bcz

GENOMIC FEATURES ORIGINATING FROM THIS LAB No data available

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

We study the roles of thyroid hormone and other factors in vertebrate skeletogenesis, with a current emphasis on how the fins are patterned during development and regeneration.

LAB MEMBERS

ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS OF LAB MEMBERS

Harper, M., Hu, Y., Donahue, J., Acosta, B., Dievenich Braes, F., Nguyen, S., Zeng, J., Barbaro, J., Lee, H., Bui, H., McMenamin, S.K. (2023) Thyroid hormone regulates proximodistal patterning in fin rays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120:e2219770120e2219770120

Conith, M.R., Ringo, D., Conith, A.J., Deleon, A., Wagner, M., McMenamin, S., Cason, C., Cooper, W.J. (2022) The Evolution of Feeding Mechanics in the Danioninae, or Why Giant Danios Don't Suck Like Zebrafish. Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England). 4:obac049obac049

Nguyen, S.V., Lanni, D., Xu, Y., Michaelson, J.S., McMenamin, S.K. (2022) Dynamics of the Zebrafish Skeleton in Three Dimensions During Juvenile and Adult Development. Frontiers in Physiology. 13:875866

Bagwell, J., Norman, J., Ellis, K.L., Peskin, B., Hwang, J., Ge, X., Nguyen, S., McMenamin, S.K., Stainier, D.Y., Bagnat, M. (2020) Notochord vacuoles absorb compressive bone growth during zebrafish spine formation. eLIFE. 9:

Galindo, D., Sweet, E., DeLeon, Z., Wagner, M., DeLeon, A., Carter, C., McMenamin, S.K., Cooper, W.J. (2019) Thyroid hormone modulation during zebrafish development recapitulates evolved diversity in danionin jaw protrusion mechanics. Evolution & development. 21(5):231-246

Hu, Y., Mauri, A., Donahue, J., Singh, R., Acosta, B., McMenamin, S. (2019) Thyroid hormone coordinates developmental trajectories but does not underlie developmental truncation in danionins. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 248(11):1144-1154

Keer, S., Cohen, K., May, C., Hu, Y., McMenamin, S., Hernandez, L.P. (2019) Anatomical assessment of the adult skeleton of zebrafish reared under different thyroid hormone profiles. Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007). 302(10):1754-1769

Hur, M., Gistelinck, C.A., Huber, P., Lee, J., Thompson, M.H., Monstad-Rios, A.T., Watson, C.J., McMenamin, S.K., Willaert, A., Parichy, D.M., Coucke, P., Kwon, R.Y. (2017) MicroCT-Based Phenomics in the Zebrafish Skeleton Reveals Virtues of Deep Phenotyping in a Distributed Organ System. Zebrafish. 15(1):77-78

McMenamin, S., Carter, C., Cooper, W.J. (2017) Thyroid Hormone Stimulates the Onset of Adult Feeding Kinematics in Zebrafish. Zebrafish. 14(6):517-525

Hur, M., Gistelinck, C.A., Huber, P., Lee, J., Thompson, M.H., Monstad-Rios, A.T., Watson, C.J., McMenamin, S.K., Willaert, A., Parichy, D.M., Coucke, P., Kwon, R.Y. (2017) microCT-based phenomics in the zebrafish skeleton reveals virtues of deep phenotyping in a distributed organ system. eLIFE. 6

McMenamin, S.K., Chandless, M.N., Parichy, D.M. (2016) Working with zebrafish at postembryonic stages. Methods in cell biology. 134:587-607

McMenamin, S.K., Bain, E.J., McCann, A.E., Patterson, L.B., Eom, D.S., Waller, Z.P., Hamill, J.C., Kuhlman, J.A., Eisen, J.S., Parichy, D.M. (2014) Thyroid hormone-dependent adult pigment cell lineage and pattern in zebrafish. Science (New York, N.Y.). 345(6202):1358-61

McMenamin, S.K., Minchin, J.E., Gordon, T.N., Rawls, J.F., and Parichy, D.M. (2013) Dwarfism and Increased Adiposity in the gh1 Mutant Zebrafish vizzini. Endocrinology. 154(4):1476-87