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 (e-pub 1/10/19).
Congratulations to Sarah on successfully passing her qualifying exams!
Lyle Murthy joins Elena’s groups as a Research Assistant. Welcome Lyle!
Another bittersweet news this year. Eve Schneider, the first postdoc in Slav’s lab, leaves the lab to become an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at University of Kentucky.
Good luck, Professor Schneider!
Lydia is leaving Elena’s lab to become a postdoc in the amazing lab of Dan Tracey.
Good luck, Dr. Hoffstaetter!
Jorg Grandl gave a terrific seminar on gating of Piezo channels!
Today is Lydia’s defense! Elena is observing the battlefield.
Lydia looks very relaxed.
Presentation!
Slides!
Data!
After long deliberation on behalf of the committee (Slav, Elena, Fred, Sulayman and Susumu), Lydia is finally a PhD!
A special cake for electrophysiology PhD-seekers.
Cutting. Guided by Elena’s hand, naturally.
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Lydia Hoffstaetter (right next to the easy-to-find Evan).
A collaborative study between Elena and David Julius’ group is published in PNAS.
Emrick JJ, Mathur A, Wei J, Gracheva EO, Gronert K, Rosenblum MD, Julius D. Tissue-specific contributions of Tmem79 to atopic dermatitis and mast cell-mediated histaminergic itch. PNAS 2018, e-pub 11/21/2018.
Evan right before the seminar (writing down last minute ideas)
dring the seminar (showing the location of trigeminal ganglia)
and right after!
Great seminar! Finding Evan has never been easier!
Matt Andres came to give a terrific talk on physiology of hibernation!
Marco, Lydia, Yury, Viktor, Matt, Jenny, Sarah.
A great commentary on Lydia and Marco’s recent paper in Current Biology is published in Journal of Experimental Biology:
Daniel Vahaba Hibernating squirrels tweak sodium channels to rest their brain. (pdf)
Congratulations!
Department of Physiology. Find Evan!
Lydia
Evan
Jenny
Jenny wins the 1st poster prize. Evan wins the 2nd (with Jack and Valeria)!!! Elena is awarding the prizes.
Sarah, Lydia, Yury, Viktor
Jenny, Marco, Sarah, Lydia
Erdem, Susumu, Slav (Find Evan)
Lydia (on the right) and Vince
Yury and Alberto
Organized by Slav and Elena!
Bittersweet news for both labs – Jon Matson is leaving us after almost four years of being an excellent tech in the lab.
We will miss you, Jon! Good luck with your new job!
An excellent seminar by Thomas Park on physiology of naked mole rats!
Lydia has passed her green-light-for-defense committee meeting!
Right before the meeting…
And right after!
Seriously.
Our new paper on excitability of sensory neurons during hibernation is out in Current Biology!
Hoffstaetter LJ*, Mastrotto M*, Merriman DK, Dib-Hajj SD, Waxman SG, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Somatosensory neurons enter a state of altered excitability during hibernation. Curr Biol 2018, e-pub 08/30/18. *co-authors.
We’ve had a wonderful outreach session for 29 students from Yale Global Scholar program!
Sarah gave a terrific talk at INP RIP seminar!
Sarah’s support team. Find Evan.
Great job, Sarah!
Yury Nikolaev is now a postdoc in Slav’s lab
Welcome, Yury!
We’ve had a wonderful week of lectures and experiments with students from Greater New Haven schools!
Now you can now watch lectures from this course on the sense of taste and smell on our SensoryPhysiologyClub channel.
We’ve launched Sensory Physiology Club in July of 2014. Since then, we’ve taught over 600 hundreds of kids!
Lydia is presenting her new story at the International Society for Neuroethology Meeting in Brisbane, Australia.
The photo is a little fuzzy, you see, but only because Australia is so far away…
The Award will support Lydia’s travel to the International Congress of Neuroethology in Australia!
Lydia’s award makes it two this year for our students. Congratulations!
Slav and Evan went to 2018 GRC Ion Channels meeting at Mt. Holoyoke College. Great science! Great fun!
Find Evan.
See our lab’s dispatch in Current Biology to a great paper by Harold Zakon’s group on fine-tuning of potassium channels in electric fish.
Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. Communication: Potassium channels define the dialect. Curr Biol 2018, 28(13): R744-6.
Evan wins a Travel Award to attend the 2018 Ion channels GRC conference.
Congratulations!
Jordan Olivieri and Vanessa Zhang join our groups for the summer. Welcome!
Sarah Mohr (Yale INP) is now a PhD student in Elena’s lab.
Welcome, Sarah!
Wang wins a James Hudson Brown – Alexander B. Coxe postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Wang!
On a bus to Neuroscience retreat! Lydia and Jenny.
The Gracheva lab +
Poster session: Jenny
Sarah
Jenny wins a 2nd prize for her poster!
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