Today is Lydia’s defense! Elena is observing the battlefield.
Lydia looks very relaxed.
Presentation!
Slides!
Data!
After long deliberation on behalf of the committee (Slav, Elena, Fred, Sulayman and Susumu), Lydia is finally a PhD!
A special cake for electrophysiology PhD-seekers.
Cutting. Guided by Elena’s hand, naturally.
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Lydia Hoffstaetter (right next to the easy-to-find Evan).
Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
Category: Cryptic puzzle
Evan right before the seminar (writing down last minute ideas)
dring the seminar (showing the location of trigeminal ganglia)
and right after!
Great seminar! Finding Evan has never been easier!
Department of Physiology. Find Evan!
Lydia
Evan
Jenny
Jenny wins the 1st poster prize. Evan wins the 2nd (with Jack and Valeria)!!! Elena is awarding the prizes.
Sarah, Lydia, Yury, Viktor
Jenny, Marco, Sarah, Lydia
Erdem, Susumu, Slav (Find Evan)
Lydia (on the right) and Vince
Yury and Alberto
Organized by Slav and Elena!
Sarah gave a terrific talk at INP RIP seminar!
Sarah’s support team. Find Evan.
Great job, Sarah!
Slav and Evan went to 2018 GRC Ion Channels meeting at Mt. Holoyoke College. Great science! Great fun!
Find Evan.
Evan wins a Travel Award to attend the 2018 Ion channels GRC conference.
Congratulations!
Winter party!
Slav’s lab (find Evan)
Elena’s lab
The Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale!
Physiology 1st Annual Bake-off Championship!
Amidst the cakes (find Evan)
The winning cake!
And the winner is – Lydia!
This win adds to our collection of bake-off trophies (Marco won a CNNR bake-off in 2015)
Evan is getting one step closer to his PhD. Before the committee meeting:
and right after:
Michael Caplan’s intro
Slav’s talk
Evan, Marco, Giorgia
Biff, Larry, Elena – the red team
Eve
Lydia
Viktor, Wang
Eve won the Grand Prix of the retreat – a facsimile of The Voynich Manuscript!
Yale Physiology Department (find Evan)
Organized by Slav and Elena labs!
Elena’ lab has moved to a new home in Sterling Hall of Medicine.
Under construction.
Brand new benches!
Moving in (find Evan).
Welcome to the new home of the Gracheva Lab!
Jenny, Elena, Lydia.
Jenny, Jon, Marco, Evan, Lydia, Elena.
Evan is chairing a scientific session.
Find Evan!
Evan gave a great RIP talk in Physiology! (You dont’ know yet who’s on the photo, there is a cryptic puzzle game below).
Cryptic puzzle: Find Evan!
(A hint: this is Evan):
You may have noticed a rare recursive illusion: Evan is eating a pizza while watching Evan giving a seminar. Only in Slav and Elena’s labs!
A review on Piezo2 in vertebrate mechanoreception in vertebrates is out!
Finding Evan takes on a new meaning…
Anderson EO, Schneider ER, Bagriantsev SN. Piezo2 in cutaneous and proprioceptive mechanotransduction in vertebrates. Curr Top Membr (Piezo channels) 2017, 79: 197-217.
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.
Finding Evan has never been easier. Before the meeting:
…and after:
Evan gave a great RIP seminar in Physiology department.
Unfortunately, no photo of this event exists. For those eagerly awaiting the next episode of the cryptic puzzle game “find Evan”, this time the quest will be spiritual.
(Find) Evan, Slav and Lydia at Biophys 2016 in LA!
The Grand Prix for the annual CNNR bake-off goes to Marco!
Marco and his trophy. Find Evan.
Though it’s very hard to find him on the poster, but Evan took part in the performance with his Bass. Just like he did last year.
Jerry Shulman
Jesse Rinehart
Jean-Ju Chung
A particularly heated debate occurred during a Q&A session…
Slav is answering a question from above.
Poster session. Evan and Jon.
Eve
Lydia
Willem
Eve, Willem, Jon, Elena, Slav, Lydia. Marco and Vanessa are hiding. Find Evan.
Congratulations to Eve and Willem for sharing the 1st prize in the poster competition!
Neuroday 2015 on Yale West Campus
Elena’s talk
High-tech at Yale West Campus: to help get the point across, a new presentation system can digitally enhance the speaker’s image projected on the screen.
Lydia
Evan
Willem
…and one more round: Lydia (find Evan)
Evan and Jon (this one is easy)
Willem
Super-challenge! Cryptic puzzle!
Big thanks to the organizers and especially Carol Russo !
This is one of the photos from the summer party at Slav and Elena’s (the rest are classified). Find Evan.
During our mandatory reading hour, the Labs learned Lugwiler’s Dismal Itch – a very powerful effectuant spell useful in many situations. Next time we will do Spatial Transposition and Forlorn Encystment after that. Find Evan.
The cryptic puzzle Evan drew on the board was instrumental in conveying the essence of his research to the audience. Superbly done, Evan!
In case you wonder where we draw inspiration for our research. A case study: Karen Tonsfeldt and Evan Anderson.
Before we start—another level to the cryptic puzzle game “Find Evan”. Find Evan!
Now further complicated with an additional challenge: find Karen!
Karen is ready to rock.
Locked and loaded…
Karen and her baritone. She says playing the baritone also helps with gigaseals…
Evan and his bass. Evan’s passionate play was a challenge for the camera’s autofocus.
Prof. Mike Higley, our friend and colleague from CNNR, plays the percussion.
Find Evan (+5 pts). Find Karen (+10 pts).
Proud Elena next to Evan and Evan’s bass after the venue.
Karen and Evan. Thank you for the amazing performance!
The Slav and Elena Labs at Yale are very fortunate to have most hard-working, most talented and multi-tasking postdocs and graduate students. Join us!
The Slav and Elena Labs organized this year’s departmental retreat at Yale West Campus.
Jon and Eve rehearse Jon’s presentation
Karen just can’t wait till it all starts!
Talks. Mike Nitabach before and after his presentation.
Elena’s talk.
Emile Boulpaep. Find Evan.
Mike Caplan’s parafilm origami master class.
It isn’t easy..
Poster session.
Joe Santos-Sacchi definitely likes Eve’s poster.
Karen, Elena, Lydia.
Organizers.
The Labs! (less Marco).
Slav, Elena, Lydia and Evan volunteered to host science-hungry kids at the Yale Pathways to Science orientation session. We met wonderful people and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We also took a few pictures so that we now can play a very interesting intellectual game—find Evan.
The game is essentially a cryptic puzzle. It stimulates cognitive arousal, potentiates watchfulness and wariness, and battles ignorance and neglect. The game can be played individually, or by two people against one another, or even by teams. Here it is.
Level 0 (practice): Where is Evan? Hint: Evan is not Elena or Lydia.
Level 1: Beginner. Where is Evan?
Level 2: Intermediate. Where is Evan?
Level 3: Insane. Where is Evan?
We play only the best games.
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