Elena receives a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Congratulations!
Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
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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.
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!
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