Slav and Elena Labs at Yale

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

Rafael presents at Conne

Congratulations to Rafael on being selected to present his work at CoNNExINS (Colloquium at NYU for Networking: Extramural for Invited Neuroscience Students)!

Kamila gives a talk at INP

A great talk by Kamila at today’s INP RIP seminar!

Rafael joins the Rising Stars Symposium

Our own Rafael has been selected to present his work at the Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium at U-Utah!

 

Maddy wins the Neuroscience Doctoral Thesis Prize

Congratulations to Maddy on winning the Sandra and Charlie Greer Neuroscience Doctoral Thesis Prize!

Neuroscience Retreat 2025

Slav and Elena Labs at the Neuroscience Retreat 2025!

 

Shade gives a talk at INP RIP

Shade nailed her talk on neurophysiology of reproduction during hibernation at the INP RIP seminar!

Jiawen gives a talk at Physiology RIP

A great talk by Jiawen at Physiology RIP seminar on the mechanism of circannual clock in hibernators!

Katrina’s first talk at INP

The very first – and awesome! – talk by Katrina at the INP RIP seminar!

Our Pacinian structure is featured on BPoD

Our 3D reconstruction of the Pacinian corpuscle is featured on the Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD)!

 

Kamila wins honorable mention at NSF

Kamila’s grant receives an honorable mention from NSF. Congratulations!

Haoran gives a talk at INP RIP

Haoran nailed her talk on neurophysiology of hyperphagia at INP RIP seminar!

 

Outreach

Our Sensory Physiology Club did another outreach session – this time to 120 students from New Haven schools!

 

Jiawen wins Yale 3-minute thesis competition

Jiawen wins the Yale 3-minute thesis competition. First prize! A huge Win!! Congratulations!

 

Melissa’s first talk at INP

Melissa gave a superb presentation – her first form the lab – at the INP research seminar!

Ke gives a talk at Neuro RIP

A great talk by Ke on neurophysiology of the sense of touch in elephant nose fish at the Neuro RIP seminar!

Luke leaves the lab

Having accomplished his PhD with 3 first author papers, a review and two covers, Luke Ziolkowski leaves the lab to continue doing great science as a postdoc. Very proud of you, Luke! Good luck!

 

 

Kamila passes quals

Congrats to Kamila on passing her qualifying exam!

Melissa Meng joins the lab

Melissa Meng from INP joins Slav’s group. Welcome!

Katrina Carrier joins the lab

Katrina Carrier from INP joins Elena’s group. Welcome!

Science Advances

Our story on the architecture and mechanism of the Pacinian corpuscle is out on the cover of Science Advances!

Ziokowski LH*, Nikolaev YA*, Chikamoto A, Oda M, Feketa VV, Monedero-Alonso D, Ardasheva AA, Bae SS, Xu CS, Pang S, Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. The inner core enables transient touch detection in the Pacinian corpuscle. Science Advances 2025, 11:eadt4837

A video highlight of our hibernation research in Science Magazine

A great video report covering our Science paper on thirst regulation!

 

 

Deidre passes quals

Congrats to Deidre on passing her PhD qualifying exams!

Jing joins Elena’s lab

Jing Yang joins Elena’s group as a postdoc. Welcome!!!

Rebecca and Aki give talks at Physiology

Two great talks from the lab at today’s Physiology RIP seminar by Rebecca and Aki!

Rafael gives a Neuro RIP talk

Rafael gave a great talk at today’s Neuro RIP seminar!

Hibernation research on Yale Daily News

A new article by Zoe Beketova covering our research on Yale Daily News!

Sarah Leaves the lab

Sarah Mohr, who took our lab’s hibernation research to a whole new level, published great papers and reviews, defended a brilliant thesis, is now leaving the lab. Very proud of you, Sarah! Good luck!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Yukina joins Elena’s lab

Yukina Oshimo joins Elena’s lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

Maddy leaves the lab

With a PhD and several stellar papers, Maddy Junkins leaves the lab to become a postdoc, while leaving behind great memories and a huge scientific legacy. So proud of you, Maddy! Good luck!

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