Melissa Meng from INP joins Slav’s group. Welcome!
Slav and Elena Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
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Katrina Carrier from INP joins Elena’s group. Welcome!
Our story on the architecture and mechanism of the Pacinian corpuscle is out on the cover of Science Advances!
Ziokowski LH*, Nikolaev YA*, Chikamoto A, Oda M, Feketa VV, Monedero-Alonso D, Ardasheva AA, Bae SS, Xu CS, Pang S, Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. The inner core enables transient touch detection in the Pacinian corpuscle. Science Advances 2025, 11:eadt4837
Congrats to Deidre on passing her PhD qualifying exams!
Jing Yang joins Elena’s group as a postdoc. Welcome!!!
Two great talks from the lab at today’s Physiology RIP seminar by Rebecca and Aki!
Rafael gave a great talk at today’s Neuro RIP seminar!
A new article by Zoe Beketova covering our research on Yale Daily News!
Sarah Mohr, who took our lab’s hibernation research to a whole new level, published great papers and reviews, defended a brilliant thesis, is now leaving the lab. Very proud of you, Sarah! Good luck!
Yukina Oshimo joins Elena’s lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
With a PhD and several stellar papers, Maddy Junkins leaves the lab to become a postdoc, while leaving behind great memories and a huge scientific legacy. So proud of you, Maddy! Good luck!
Maddy’s paper is featured on Popular Science!
And on Earth.com:
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More from Popular Science:
Our paper on the mechanism of long-term thirst suppression during hibernation is out in Science!
Junkins MS, Feng NY, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Suppression of neurons in circumventricular organs enables months-long survival without water in thirteen-lined ground squirrels. Science 2024, 386, 1048–1055.
Rafael nailed his presentation at Physiology RIP seminar talking about neurophysiology of reproduction during hibernation!
“Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research” – an article by Shaena Montanari featuring Elena’s lab research is out on The Transmitter!
Congrats to Rafael on presenting his research at Smith Family Symposium!
After almost 12 years at Yale, Slav and Elena are promoted to Full Professors!
Ke and Rebecca traveled to Boston to give talks at the Northeast Pain Symposium 2024!
Congratulations to Shade on defending her thesis prospectus!
Slav’s lab has moved to a brand-new space at SHB B146. Here is the construction timelapse!
We were so thrilled to host Sophie Pezet for today’s Physiology seminar!
Yale Physiology Retreat 2024 at West Campus! Organized by the Slav and Elena labs!
Retreat logo by Kamila
Posters, science!
Great talks by Maryann and Ke!
Awards!
Congrats to Camille on winning the Grand Prix!
It was our great pleasure to host Christine Merlin for the 2024 Physiology Seminar series!
Maryann and Rafael presented their works at today’s Kavli Institute 20th Anniversary Symposium!
Our speaker today was Nisha Charkoudian. Thank you for the wonderful seminar!
Camille Cauwelier joins Slav’s lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow of The Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF).
Welcome!
Our research on hibernation is highlighted in the recent article by Pauline Charbogne on the Kavli Foundation Website.
Congrats to Sarah and Maryann!
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