Congratulations to Maddy on winning the 2025 INP Thesis Prize!
Slav and Elena Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
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!
Maddy’s paper is featured on Popular Science!
And on Earth.com:
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More from Popular Science:
Our paper on the mechanism of long-term thirst suppression during hibernation is out in Science!
Junkins MS, Feng NY, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Suppression of neurons in circumventricular organs enables months-long survival without water in thirteen-lined ground squirrels. Science 2024, 386, 1048–1055.
Rafael nailed his presentation at Physiology RIP seminar talking about neurophysiology of reproduction during hibernation!
“Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research” – an article by Shaena Montanari featuring Elena’s lab research is out on The Transmitter!
Congrats to Rafael on presenting his research at Smith Family Symposium!
After almost 12 years at Yale, Slav and Elena are promoted to Full Professors!
Ke and Rebecca traveled to Boston to give talks at the Northeast Pain Symposium 2024!
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