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Hale, Melina MBL Fellow, Bell Center

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Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy , University of Chicago 2013 -
MBL Fellow, Bell Center , Marine Biological Laboratory 2016 -

Behaviors result from integrated systems of neural circuits, muscles and body structures. These systems, working together and interacting with the physical environment, generate movement. Movement and the morphology that underlies it change strikingly over developmental and evolutionary time while maintaining critical roles for the organism. Our research examines how such systems function, how they change through the life history of an organism and how they diversify over longer timescales across the landscape of animal evolution.

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- Adipose fin development and its relation to the evolutionary origins of median fins.. Sci Rep. 9:512. 2019
- Comparative Principles for Next-Generation Neuroscience.. Front Behav Neurosci. 13:12. 2019
- Fins as Mechanosensors for Movement and Touch-Related Behaviors.. American Zoologist. 58:844-859. 2018
- Mechanosensation is evolutionarily tuned to locomotor mechanics.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114:4459-4464. 2017
- Mechanosensation in an adipose fin.. Proc Biol Sci. 283:20152794. 2016
- Touch sensation by pectoral fins of the catfish Pimelodus pictus.. Proc Biol Sci. 283:20152652-20152652. 2016
- A Large-Scale Pattern of Ontogenetic Shape Change in Ray-Finned Fishes.. PloS one. 11:e0150841. 2016
- Fin ray sensation participates in the generation of normal fin movement in the hovering behavior of the bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus).. Journal of Experimental Biology. 218:3435-3447. 2015
- Mapping circuits beyond the models: integrating connectomics and comparative neuroscience.. Neuron. 83:1256-1258. 2014
- NSF workshop report: discovering general principles of nervous system organization by comparing brain maps across species.. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 522:1445-1453. 2014
- First description of a musculoskeletal linkage in an adipose fin: innovations for active control in a primitively passive appendage.. Proc Biol Sci. 280:20122159. 2013
- The function of fin rays as proprioceptive sensors in fish.. Nat Commun. 4:1729. 2013
- Behavioral evidence for the evolution of walking and bounding before terrestriality in sarcopterygian fishes.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108:21146-21151. 2011
- Onset and dynamic expression of S100 proteins in the olfactory organ and the lateral line system in zebrafish development.. Brain Research. 1383:120-127. 2011
- Neuroscience. Vertebrate vocalizations.. Science Science. 321:347-348. 2008
- Neural development of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) pectoral fin.. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 504:168-184. 2007
- Repression of the hindbrain developmental program by Cdx factors is required for the specification of the vertebrate spinal cord.. Development. 134:2147-2158. 2007
- A topographic map of recruitment in spinal cord.. Nature Nature. 446:71-75. 2007
- Grading movement strength by changes in firing intensity versus recruitment of spinal interneurons.. Neuron. 53:91-102. 2007
- Structure, Function, and Neural Control of Pectoral Fins in Fishes. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 29:674-683. 2004
- S- and C-start escape responses of the muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) require alternative neuromotor mechanisms.. Journal of Experimental Biology. 205:2005-2016. 2002
- Evolution of behavior and neural control of the fast-start escape response.. Evolution. 56:993-1007. 2002
- Diversity in startle behavior of larval zebrafish. American Zoologist.