Lab News
Fishmas 2023
December 8, 2023
A favorite time of the year is our non-denomonational winter holiday celebration: Fishmas! We welcomed back local Lab alumni, welcomed new Lab members, celebrated our accomplishments over the year and enjoyed each others company!
Lab-o-ween 2023
October 31, 2023
Our costume theme this year was the Lab's recent graduate Dr. Stacy Nguyen, now faculty at Wheaton College!
Summer Lab retreat
August 11, 2023
We had our annual off-site lab retreat with planning, presentations, games and some really memorable jelly beans.
Thanks to Cris and Melody for planning the day and our delicious menu!
Congratulations, Dr. Stacy Nguyen!
August 10, 2023
Stacy Nguyen successfully defended her PhD thesis "Roles of thyroid hormone in postembryonic craniofacial development and zebrafish and other Danioninae"! We celebrated with the Biology Department, Stacy's friends and family and members of the Lab, including 5 Lab alumni who traveled to attend her talk.
Stacy has been a central, guiding force in the lab since the very beginning and has spearheaded beautiful work analyzing the emergence of skull shape in three dimensions. Her latest preprint about craniofacial diversity across close relatives of the zebrafish can be found here! Stacy is starting a faculty position at Wheaton College and they are unbelievably lucky to have her.
Our hearts ache to say goodbye, and we are so excited about about Stacy's next adventure!!
SDB 2023
July 21 2023
PhD Candidate Melody gave a flash talk at the Society for Developmental Biology Meeting in Chicago!
FaceBase 2023 Community Forum
June 13 2023
PhD Candidate Stacy Nguyen traveled to Los Angeles to help moderate the Basic Research session of the FaceBase Community Forum.
New lab members!
June 1 2023
We are thrilled to welcome two new technicians to our lab community, Cris and Rachel! We also welcome three new summer research students, Kate, Elird and Betty!
Congratulations, graduates!
May 22 2023
Congratulations to our graduating seniors, Ziggy, Brendan, Bella and Stephanie!
Paper published in PNAS
May 15 2023
Our lab's paper Thyroid homone regulates proximodistal patterning in fin rays is now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! Congratulations to Melody, Yinan and everyone whose hard work made this publication possible!
Undergraduate Research Day
May 5 2023
Congratulations to all of our undergraduate researchers who presented their research at BC's Undergraduate Research Day! We especially enjoyed Bella Ranieri's great talk about her thesis work and were delighted to see her presented with the 2023 Balkema Senior Thesis Award!
NESDB 2023
April 30 2023
We had a great time at the Northeast Regional SDB meeting in Woods Hole. We're proud of all the trainees who presented their work, and special congratulations to grad student Eric Surette and Stephanie Robinson who won their respective categories.
BAZaR 2023 at Boston College
March 18 2023
We hosted the inaugural meeting of BAZaR: Boston Area Zebrafish Researchers. We had 90+ attendees from 18 institutions from across the greater Boston area. Sarah organized the meeting along with colleagues Jenna Galloway and Trista North.
Congratulations to McMenamin Lab grad student Eric Surette on a great talk and to undergrad Stephanie Robinson on winning Best Undergraduate Poster!
Tenure!
March 1 2023
We received news this week that Sarah was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
We've been celebrating with cake, sushi, and more balloons that is really reasonable to have at a lab meeting.
March 18, 2023
Boston Area Zebrafish Researchers Meeting
February 1, 2023
We are excited to be hosting the first BAZaR meeting for all fish researchers in the greater Boston area here at Boston College on March 18! Please register and join us. Registration is free for all students!