Congratulations to Sarah on successfully passing her qualifying exams!
Sensory Physiology Labs at Yale
Collaborative projects between Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva Laboratories at Yale University
Category: Epistemology of PhD-ing (page 1 of 2)
Lydia is leaving Elena’s lab to become a postdoc in the amazing lab of Dan Tracey.
Good luck, Dr. Hoffstaetter!
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).
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!
Lydia has passed her green-light-for-defense committee meeting!
Right before the meeting…
And right after!
Sarah gave a terrific talk at INP RIP seminar!
Sarah’s support team. Find Evan.
Great job, Sarah!
Lydia is presenting her new story at the International Society for Neuroethology Meeting in Brisbane, Australia.
The photo is a little fuzzy, you see, but only because Australia is so far away…
The Award will support Lydia’s travel to the International Congress of Neuroethology in Australia!
Lydia’s award makes it two this year for our students. Congratulations!
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!
On a bus to Neuroscience retreat! Lydia and Jenny.
The Gracheva lab +
Poster session: Jenny
Sarah
Jenny wins a 2nd prize for her poster!
Congratulations to Lydia, who won both the audience-favorite prize as well as the 2nd overall prize for the 3 minute thesis competition!
Scurrelz in da space!
UPD: a video of Lydia’s presentation is now available.
Evan is getting one step closer to his PhD. Before the committee meeting:
and right after:
Yale University Commencement 2017 (find Willem)
Slav and Elena
Elena and Willem
Willem’s trophy
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!
Willem Laursen has got his PhD in Elena’ lab in just 4 years and now leaves to start a postdoc in Brandeis University.
Good luck, Dr. Laursen!
This time it’s a R.I.P. seminar of the INP program.
Sasha is guarding the pizza.
It’s time for another committee meeting for Lydia. Before the meeting:
…and after:
Great progress, Lydia! Epistemology of PhD-ing continues…
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!
Slav and Willem went to the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on ion channels at Mt. Holyoke college.
Serious people came to present some serious science. Willem’s talk was voted best at the Seminar and he had to present it again during the last day of the Conference.
A very New England treat.
Many thanks to Emily Liman and Chris Ahern for organizing the meeting!
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!
INP recruitment reception at Yale Peabody Museum.
A panel of PIs welcoming new recruits.
Thanks to the clarity of presentation (part of which you can see on the slide), Willem has gotten his committee’s approval to start preparing for defense.
Lydia gave a seminar at the INP Student Research Talk. Great job, Lydia!
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 !
Today it was Lydia’s turn to give a Research-in-Progress seminar in the Neuroscience program.
Undeterred by a pizza delivery right in the middle of her talk, Lydia stayed the course gave one of the best INP R.I.P.s! Great job!
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