Kellen Rinehart from Guilford High Schol joins Elena’s lab for a summer project. Welcome!
Slav and Elena Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
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Our research on hibernation is highlighted in the recent article by Lindsay Borthwick on The Kavli Foundation website.
Shade gave a superb talk on neurophysiology of reproduction during hibernation at INP RIP seminar!
Jiawen went to Puerto Rico to present her work at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research of Biological Rhythms!
Serafima (Sima) Ardasheva joins Slav’s lab as a visiting undergrad from Temple University. Welcome!
Sarah Mohr has defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Mohr!
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!
Sensory Physiology strikes again! Now with 80 kids from around New Haven. Committed to nurturing the next generation of scientists!
The first talk by Deidre at the M2P2 rotation seminar!
Kamila Kemenyfy-Rojas from INP joins Elena’s lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
Dharani Sree Ravi joins both labs as a Postgraduate Trainee. Welcome!
Congrats to Haoran, whose cheesecake won the coveted 2024 Physiology Bake-Off Grand Prix by a landslide!!!
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!
Maddy and Jenny’s paper on the neural control of fluid homeostasis during hibernation is out in Current Biology!
Junkins MS*, Feng NY*, Murphy LA, Curtis G, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Neural control of fluid homeostasis is engaged below 10°C in hibernation. Current Biology 2024, 34, 1-8.
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!
Yury gave a seminar at the ZEISS workshop on advanced Arivis analysis tool, sharing his experience with mastering FIB-SEM data segmentation from the recent paper.
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!
Lorraine presented her work on mechanosensation of Elephant Nose Fish at the Choate Rosemary Hall school science fair. Congrats to Lorraine and her mentor Ke!
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