Sarah Mohr has defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Mohr!
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Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
Category: Epistemology of PhD-ing (page 2 of 6)
Congratulations to Rafel on winning the Annie Le Fellowship 2024!
This fellowship is awarded in memory of Annie Le and is awarded to students who have demonstrated leadership and service to the Yale and New Haven community, have an exemplary record of academic achievement, and outstanding interpersonal skills.
Maddy has defended her PhD!!! Congratulations, Dr. Junkins!
Rebecca talks squirrels and the sense of touch at the Neuroscience RIP seminar!
Haoran explains winter, food and squirrels during her INP RIP talk!
Though it’s April first, Jiawen’s talk at Physiology Seminar series was no joke! Real deal!
The first talk by Deidre at the M2P2 rotation seminar!
Kamila Kemenyfy-Rojas from INP joins Elena’s lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
Deidre Thompson from M2P2 joins Elena’s lab as a new PhD student. Welcome!
Sarah gave a great seminar on the hypothalamic mechanism of reversible anorexia during hibernation at today’s Neuroscience RIP!
Congrats to Shade, a Wu Tsai Fellow, on giving her first talk at Yale WTI!
Congrats to Haoran on the excellent defense of her thesis prospectus!
Congrats to Rebecca, Yury and Luke for their outstanding talks at the 2024 Keystone: Mammalian Somatosensation Conference in Santa Fe, NM!
Yury
Rebecca
Luke
Huge thanks to the organizers (Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Diana Bautista, Rebecca Seal) for the opportunity to present our lab’s work!
Congratulations to Jiawen on successfully passing her qualifying exam!
Ke gave a wonderful seminar on sensory physiology of tactile specialist fish at INP RIP seminar!
Rafael went to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to give a talk on hibernation at Proxima Symposium!
A second Physiology retreat this year!
Retreat Logo by Ke:
Rebecca’s talk:
Poster Winners: Luke, Mai, Jiawen – congrats!
Thank you, Organizing Committee: Aki, Rafael, Qi, Amit, Jiawen, Ke and Marco:
Yale Physiology Department, 2023-11 edition:
Rafael is one step closer to his PhD after giving a great talk at Physiology RIP seminar!
Luke gave an amazing talk at his (last) INP RIP seminar!
Rebecca’s nailed her final talk in the INP research-in-progress seminar series! Congrats!
Elena, Slav and Haoran went to University of Alaska Fairbanks to attend the 2023 Hibernation Science Workshop!
We met Owen Funk – our first lab alumnus!
Slav is drawing “Hibernation”
Result
Haoran’s presentation
Elena’s lecture
Gearing up to visit the permafrost tunnels!
Just outside the tunnels
Haoran gave a great talk during her INP RIP seminar!
Yale Physiology Retreat 2023 at West Campus!
Retreat logo by Ke
Group photo – Department of Physiology, 2023 edition
Elena, Ke, Slav
Haoran
David, Mai, Maryann
Viktor is interrogating someone
Maddy
Rafael is singing a song
Yury
Rebecca
Slav’s talk
Sarah’s talk
Rafael wins the Grand Prix game!
Organizing committee – Ke, Marco and others!
Ke has completed yet another thesis committee meeting, a PhD is in sight!
Haoran receives a travel fellowship to attend Hibernation Science Workshop in Alaska!
Rebecca, Ke and Yury went to Zuckerman Institue at Columbia to present their work on the sense of touch in squirrels, elephant nose fish and ducks!
Haoran nailed her quals today! One step closer to a PhD!
Elena, Ke and Jiawen went to Rockefeller University for an iDISCO workshop! But a slice of NY pizza first (just to reaffirm that New Haven apizza is way better).
Rafael has passed another one of his thesis committee meetings – one step closer to PhD!
Rafael before the meeting…
…and right after!
Rafael nailed his talk during today’s Physiology RIP seminar!
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