Maddy has defended her PhD!!! Congratulations, Dr. Junkins!
Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
Rebecca talks squirrels and the sense of touch at the Neuroscience RIP seminar!
Haoran explains winter, food and squirrels during her INP RIP talk!
Though it’s April first, Jiawen’s talk at Physiology Seminar series was no joke! Real deal!
Sensory Physiology strikes again! Now with 80 kids from around New Haven. Committed to nurturing the next generation of scientists!
The first talk by Deidre at the M2P2 rotation seminar!
Kamila Kemenyfy-Rojas from INP joins Elena’s lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
Dharani Sree Ravi joins both labs as a Postgraduate Trainee. Welcome!
Congrats to Haoran, whose cheesecake won the coveted 2024 Physiology Bake-Off Grand Prix by a landslide!!!
Deidre Thompson from M2P2 joins Elena’s lab as a new PhD student. Welcome!
Sarah gave a great seminar on the hypothalamic mechanism of reversible anorexia during hibernation at today’s Neuroscience RIP!
Congrats to Shade, a Wu Tsai Fellow, on giving her first talk at Yale WTI!
Maddy and Jenny’s paper on the neural control of fluid homeostasis during hibernation is out in Current Biology!
Junkins MS*, Feng NY*, Murphy LA, Curtis G, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Neural control of fluid homeostasis is engaged below 10°C in hibernation. Current Biology 2024, 34, 1-8.
Congrats to Haoran on the excellent defense of her thesis prospectus!
Congrats to Rebecca, Yury and Luke for their outstanding talks at the 2024 Keystone: Mammalian Somatosensation Conference in Santa Fe, NM!
Yury
Rebecca
Luke
Huge thanks to the organizers (Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Diana Bautista, Rebecca Seal) for the opportunity to present our lab’s work!
Congratulations to Jiawen on successfully passing her qualifying exam!
Ke gave a wonderful seminar on sensory physiology of tactile specialist fish at INP RIP seminar!
Yury gave a seminar at the ZEISS workshop on advanced Arivis analysis tool, sharing his experience with mastering FIB-SEM data segmentation from the recent paper.
Rafael went to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to give a talk on hibernation at Proxima Symposium!
A second Physiology retreat this year!
Retreat Logo by Ke:
Rebecca’s talk:
Poster Winners: Luke, Mai, Jiawen – congrats!
Thank you, Organizing Committee: Aki, Rafael, Qi, Amit, Jiawen, Ke and Marco:
Yale Physiology Department, 2023-11 edition:
Rafael is one step closer to his PhD after giving a great talk at Physiology RIP seminar!
Lorraine presented her work on mechanosensation of Elephant Nose Fish at the Choate Rosemary Hall school science fair. Congrats to Lorraine and her mentor Ke!
A wonderful outreach session to West Hartford High schoolers.
Thank you, Sarah, for your efforts in promoting science to high school kids!
Very proud of Sam Levchenko, a lab alumnus from the Hopkins school, who presented his poster at Hopkins Authentic Research Program in Science!
Here is Sam and Marco, Sam’s mentor.
Luke gave an amazing talk at his (last) INP RIP seminar!
Our paper on the structure and functional mechanism in Meissner corpuscle is out in Science Advances!
Nikolaev YA*, Ziolkowski LH*, Pang S, Li W-P, Feketa VV, Xu CS, Gracheva, EO, Bagriantsev SN. 3D architecture and a bi-cellular mechanism of touch detection in mechanosensory corpuscle. Science Advances, 2023, 9:eadi4147.
Rebecca’s nailed her final talk in the INP research-in-progress seminar series! Congrats!
Elena, Slav and Haoran went to University of Alaska Fairbanks to attend the 2023 Hibernation Science Workshop!
We met Owen Funk – our first lab alumnus!
Slav is drawing “Hibernation”
Result
Haoran’s presentation
Elena’s lecture
Gearing up to visit the permafrost tunnels!
Just outside the tunnels
Akitoshi Chikamoto is a new postdoc in Slav’s lab.
Welcome!
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