Willem Laursen defends his thesis after just 3.5 years in Elena’s lab.
Elena’s introduction.
Defense, Part I
Defense, Part II
Defense committee: Fred Sigworth, Michael Caplan, John Carlson
Congratulations, Dr. Laursen!
Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
Month: September 2016
Our paper on TRPV1 from heat-resistant animals is out in PNAS!
Laursen WJ, Schneider ER, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. Low-cost functional plasticity of TRPV1 supports heat tolerance in squirrels and camels. PNAS 2016, 113(40): 11342-47.
Annual departmental retreat on Yale West Campus! Organized by Slav and Elena.
Retreat Logo.
Lydia and Jon.
Posters! Evan and Biff Forbush.
Lydia.
Willem (won the Best Poster Award!) and Joe Santos-Sacchi.
Guiseppe (Nancy Carrasco lab) and Marco.
Vanessa and Elena.
Viktor and Jean-Ju Chung.
Elena’s talk.
Slav and Larry Cohen.
As per rules of the Labs, lab members must be properly fed…
…and hydrated.
Find Evan.
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