Slav and Elena Labs at Yale

Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University

Category: Cryptic puzzle (page 1 of 2)

Wang and Evan leave the lab

Bittersweet news – Wang and (find) Evan are moving on, leaving behind them a huge legacy in the lab! Good luck!

Evan Anderson, PhD

Evan has successfully defended his PhD thesis!

Find Evan.Congratulations, Dr. Anderson!

Evan passes pre-defense

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!

Lydia Hoffstaetter, PhD

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).

Evan’s Physiology R.I.P. talk

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!

Physiology Retreat 2018

Department of Physiology. Find Evan!LydiaEvanJennyJenny wins the 1st poster prize. Evan wins the 2nd (with Jack and Valeria)!!! Elena is awarding the prizes.Sarah, Lydia, Yury, ViktorJenny, Marco, Sarah, LydiaErdem, Susumu, Slav (Find Evan)Lydia (on the right) and VinceYury and AlbertoOrganized by Slav and Elena!

Sarah’s talk at INP

Sarah gave a terrific talk at INP RIP seminar!

Sarah’s support team. Find Evan.Great job, Sarah!

GRC Ion Channels 2018

Slav and Evan went to 2018 GRC Ion Channels meeting at Mt. Holoyoke College. Great science! Great fun!

Find Evan.

Evan receives a Graduate Travel Award

Evan wins a Travel Award to attend the 2018 Ion channels GRC conference.

Congratulations!

Winter party at Slav and Elena’s

Winter party!

Slav’s lab (find Evan)Elena’s lab

The Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale!

Lydia is the Bake-off Champion

Physiology 1st Annual Bake-off Championship!Amidst the cakes (find Evan)The winning cake!And the winner is – Lydia!This win adds to our collection of bake-off trophies (Marco won a CNNR bake-off in 2015)

Evan’s committee meeting

Evan is getting one step closer to his PhD. Before the committee meeting:and right after:

Physiology Retreat 2017

Michael Caplan’s introSlav’s talkEvan, Marco, GiorgiaBiff, Larry, Elena – the red teamEveLydiaViktor, WangEve won the Grand Prix of the retreat – a facsimile of The Voynich Manuscript!Yale Physiology Department (find Evan)Organized by Slav and Elena labs!

Gracheva Lab moves to SHM

Elena’ lab has moved to a new home in Sterling Hall of Medicine.

Under construction.

Brand new benches!Moving in (find Evan).

Welcome to the new home of the Gracheva Lab!

Lydia wins poster competition at Neuroscience retreat

Jenny, Elena, Lydia.Jenny, Jon, Marco, Evan, Lydia, Elena.Evan is chairing a scientific session.

Find Evan!

A recursive cryptic illusion (Evan’s R.I.P. talk)

Evan gave a great RIP talk in Physiology! (You dont’ know yet who’s on the photo, there is a cryptic puzzle game below).

Cryptic puzzle: Find Evan!

(A hint: this is Evan):
You may have noticed a rare recursive illusion: Evan is eating a pizza while watching Evan giving a seminar. Only in Slav and Elena’s labs!

Current Topics in Membranes: Piezo2

A review on Piezo2 in vertebrate mechanoreception in vertebrates is out!

Finding Evan takes on a new meaning…

Anderson EO, Schneider ER, Bagriantsev SN. Piezo2 in cutaneous and proprioceptive mechanotransduction in vertebrates. Curr Top Membr (Piezo channels) 2017, 79: 197-217.

Tchaikovsky, Barber and Brahms

Yale Medical Symphony 2016 (2015, 2014)2016-12-09-evan-symphonyCryptic puzzle (level moderate): find Evan.2016-12-09-evan-symphony-1A hint: this is Evan.2016-12-09-evan-symphony-2

Cellular & Molecular Physiology Retreat 2016

Annual departmental retreat on Yale West Campus! Organized by Slav and Elena.

Retreat Logo.Print

Lydia and Jon.2016-09-15-retreat-2

Posters! Evan and Biff Forbush.2016-09-15-retreat-3

Lydia.2016-09-15-retreat-4

Willem (won the Best Poster Award!) and Joe Santos-Sacchi.2016-09-15-retreat-6

Guiseppe (Nancy Carrasco lab) and Marco.2016-09-15-retreat-7

Vanessa and Elena.2016-09-15-retreat-8

Viktor and Jean-Ju Chung.2016-09-15-retreat-9

Elena’s talk.2016-09-15-retreat-10

Slav and Larry Cohen.2016-09-15-retreat-11

As per rules of the Labs, lab members must be properly fed…2016-09-15-retreat-13

…and hydrated.2016-09-15-retreat-14

Find Evan.2016-09-15-retreat-15

Evan’s PhD committee meeting

Finding Evan has never been easier. Before the meeting:2016-06-24 Evan_1…and after:2016-06-24 Evan_2

Physiology RIP seminar by Evan

Evan gave a great RIP seminar in Physiology department.

Unfortunately, no photo of this event exists. For those eagerly awaiting the next episode of the cryptic puzzle game “find Evan”, this time the quest will be spiritual.

Biophysics 2016

 

2016-03-03 Slav Lydia Evan Biophys LA copy(Find) Evan, Slav and Lydia at Biophys 2016 in LA!

Marco wins Bake-off Grand Prix

2015-12-11 Bake-off_1The Grand Prix for the annual CNNR bake-off goes to Marco!

2015-12-11 Bake-off_2Marco and his trophy. Find Evan.

Brahms, Sibelius and Glinka

YSM Medical Symphony.inddThough it’s very hard to find him on the poster, but Evan took part in the performance with his Bass. Just like he did last year.

Cellular & Molecular Physiology Retreat 2015

2015-10-27  CMP retreat logoJerry Shulman2015-10-27 CMP retreat ShulmanJesse Rinehart2015-10-27 CMP retreat JesseJean-Ju Chung2015-10-27  CMP retreat JeanJuA particularly heated debate occurred during a Q&A session…2015-10-27  CMP retreat game Nancy2015-10-27  CMP retreat game CarsonSlav is answering a question from above.2015-10-27  CMP retreat Slav 3Poster session. Evan and Jon.2015-10-27  CMP retreat Evan JonEve2015-10-27 CMP retreat Eve 1Lydia2015-10-27 CMP retreat LydiaWillem2015-10-27 CMP retreat WillemEve, Willem, Jon, Elena, Slav, Lydia. Marco and Vanessa are hiding. Find Evan.2015-10-27 CMP retreat two labsCongratulations to Eve and Willem for sharing the 1st prize in the poster competition!

Neuroday 2015

Neuroday 2015 on Yale West Campus

Elena’s talk

2015-08-31 Neuroday Elena 1High-tech at Yale West Campus: to help get the point across, a new presentation system can digitally enhance the speaker’s image projected on the screen.2015-08-31 Neuroday Elena 2Lydia2015-08-31 Neuroday Lydia talk

Evan2015-08-31 Neuroday Evan talkWillem2015-08-81 Neuroday Willem talk…and one more round: Lydia (find Evan)2015-08-31 Neuroday Lydia posterEvan and Jon (this one is easy)2015-08-31 Neuroday Evan Jon posterWillem2015-08-31 Neuroday Willem poster

Super-challenge! Cryptic puzzle!2015-08-31 Neuroday groupBig thanks to the organizers and especially Carol Russo !

Another cryptic puzzle

This is one of the photos from the summer party at Slav and Elena’s (the rest are classified). Find Evan.

2015-07-11 Jon Evan Eve

Lugwiler’s Dismal Itch

2015-05-18 Labs LibraryDuring our mandatory reading hour, the Labs learned Lugwiler’s Dismal Itch – a very powerful effectuant spell useful in many situations. Next time we will do Spatial Transposition and Forlorn Encystment after that. Find Evan.

Research-in-Progress seminar by Evan

2015-05-04 Evan RIP talk

The cryptic puzzle Evan drew on the board was instrumental in conveying the essence of his research to the audience. Superbly done, Evan!

Karen and Evan play the fifth by good old Ludwig

In case you wonder where we draw inspiration for our research. A case study: Karen Tonsfeldt and Evan Anderson.

2014-12-05_Symphony_1Before we start—another level to the cryptic puzzle game “Find Evan”. Find Evan!

Now further complicated with an additional challenge: find Karen!

2014-12-05_Symphony_2Karen is ready to rock.

2014-12-05_Symphony_3Locked and loaded…

2014-12-05_Symphony_4Karen and her baritone. She says playing the baritone also helps with gigaseals…

2014-12-05_Symphony_5Evan and his bass. Evan’s passionate play was a challenge for the camera’s autofocus.

2014-12-05_Symphony_6Prof. Mike Higley, our friend and colleague from CNNR, plays the percussion.

2014-12-05_Symphony_7Find Evan (+5 pts). Find Karen (+10 pts).

2014-12-05_Symphony_8Proud Elena next to Evan and Evan’s bass after the venue.

2014-12-05_Symphony_9Karen and Evan. Thank you for the amazing performance!

2014-12-05_Symphony_10The Slav and Elena Labs at Yale are very fortunate to have most hard-working, most talented and multi-tasking postdocs and graduate students. Join us!

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