Delegates from Elena’s team went to the annual meeting of the Smith Family Foundation. Thank you for supporting basic research!
Sarah, Jenny, Maddy, Elena.
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Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
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Our new paper of how hibernating squirrels manage to not drink for months is out in Current Biology!
Feng NY, Junkins MS, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Osmolyte depletion and thirst suppression allow hibernators to survive for months without water. Curr Biol 2019, e-pub 09/05/19.
Bittersweet news – Wang and (find) Evan are moving on, leaving behind them a huge legacy in the lab! Good luck!
Sarah and Jenny at the Neuroday posters!
A new study from our lab on how cold affects mechanoreceptor function is out in PNAS!
Zheng W, Nikolaev TA, Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. Piezo2 integrates mechanical and thermal cues in vertebrate mechanoreceptors. PNAS 2019, 116(35): 17547-17555.
Art can be inspiring, motivational and more. Maddy and Sarah draw their everyday inspiration and motivation in part from Squirrel Triptych – an original art by Oleg Grachov, now displayed in Elena’s lab.
Evan has successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Find Evan.
Congratulations, Dr. Anderson!
We’ve had a wonderful week with New Haven school students!
Yury tried some miracle fruit. Now he can’t have enough of them lemons!
Sensory Physiology Club teaches you how to eat lemons and more!
Evan had a pre-defense committee meeting today. Here is Evan before the seminar…
…and right after:
No difference! This is progress. This is a PASS!
Elena receives a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Congratulations!
UPD 7/25/19. Awards ceremony, Constitution Hall, D.C.:
Nicole Tang starts a summer project in Elena’s lab. Welcome!
Maddy gave an excellent seminar at INP Research-In-Progress. Great job! 
Maya Lewis-Hayre joins Slav’s lab for a summer project. Welcome!
Viktor wins a talk prize at the Yale Postdoctoral Symposium. Congratulations!
Slav and Elena finished editing a Special Issue of Neuroscience Letters on thermoregulation. The issue features a great collection of reviews from experts in the field.
Editorial:
Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. Neural mechanisms of thermoregulation. Neurosci Letters 2019, Jun 3;707:134318.
Tom McCabe is now a Postgraduate trainee in Slav’s lab.
Welcome, Tom!
Congratulations, Dr. Hoffstaetter!
Jenny has received a New Investigator Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology!
Congrats, Jenny!
Maddy Junkins (Yale INP) joins Elena’s lab!
Welcome, Maddy!
A great talk by Wang on gating of Piezo channels!
To get to the lab, Sarah and Maddy don’t just walk, ride or cycle. They canoe!
A wonderful talk by Sarah at the INP RIP seminar!
Congratulations to Wang on receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience!
Another great outreach session with New Haven kids at our Sensory Physiology Club!
A new study on the role of Piezo2 in mechanosensory specialization of trigeminal neurons is out on the cover of Cell Reports!
Schneider ER, Anderson EO, Feketa VV, Mastrotto M, Nikolaev YA, Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. A cross-species analysis reveals a common strategy for mechanosensory specialization in trigeminal ganglia. Cell Reports 2019, 26(8): 1979-1987.
UPD: an interesting viewpoint on our study on “Why Evolution is True” by Matthew Cobb: Duck beaks, Umwelt and Kantian a prioris
UPD2: More press coverage on this story (also presented at Biophysical Meeting 2019): EurekAlert, Lab Manager, Phys.Org, Earth.com, Laboratoryequipment.com, also International: 20 minutos, infosalus.com, Diario de Navarra, PlanetaIncognito (Spanish), Tekk.tv (German).
UPD3: A recommendation by Ilya Ruvinsky on F1000: Neuro-Eco-Evo-Devo.
Surviving Seasonal Slumber: a nice piece inspired by our TRPM8 paper is out in this issue of National Wildlife!
Read the whole story here.
More press coverage on this paper is here.
24 students from from New Haven schools came to Yale today to hear about science at our Sensory Physiology Club!
Jenny gave a terrific talk at Neuroscience RIP seminar!
A new paper from our lab is out in eLife. Congratulations to Wang!
Zheng W, Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. A hydrophobic gate in the inner pore helix is the major determinant of inactivation in mechanosensitive Piezo channels. eLife 2019, 8:e44003.
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