Congratulations to Rafael on being selected to present his work at CoNNExINS (Colloquium at NYU for Networking: Extramural for Invited Neuroscience Students)!
Slav and Elena Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
A great talk by Kamila at today’s INP RIP seminar!
Our own Rafael has been selected to present his work at the Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium at U-Utah!
Congratulations to Maddy on winning the Sandra and Charlie Greer Neuroscience Doctoral Thesis Prize!
Slav and Elena Labs at the Neuroscience Retreat 2025!
Shade nailed her talk on neurophysiology of reproduction during hibernation at the INP RIP seminar!
A great talk by Jiawen at Physiology RIP seminar on the mechanism of circannual clock in hibernators!
The very first – and awesome! – talk by Katrina at the INP RIP seminar!
Our 3D reconstruction of the Pacinian corpuscle is featured on the Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD)!
Kamila’s grant receives an honorable mention from NSF. Congratulations!
Haoran nailed her talk on neurophysiology of hyperphagia at INP RIP seminar!
Our Sensory Physiology Club did another outreach session – this time to 120 students from New Haven schools!
Jiawen wins the Yale 3-minute thesis competition. First prize! A huge Win!! Congratulations!
Melissa gave a superb presentation – her first form the lab – at the INP research seminar!
A great talk by Ke on neurophysiology of the sense of touch in elephant nose fish at the Neuro RIP seminar!
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!
Congrats to Kamila on passing her qualifying exam!
Melissa Meng from INP joins Slav’s group. Welcome!
Katrina Carrier from INP joins Elena’s group. Welcome!
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
Congrats to Deidre on passing her PhD qualifying exams!
Jing Yang joins Elena’s group as a postdoc. Welcome!!!
Two great talks from the lab at today’s Physiology RIP seminar by Rebecca and Aki!
Rafael gave a great talk at today’s Neuro RIP seminar!
A new article by Zoe Beketova covering our research on Yale Daily News!
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!
Yukina Oshimo joins Elena’s lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
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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