Our new story! Together with Luke Ziolkowski, we uncovered the mechanism and 3D architecture of the Pacinian corpuscle. Huge thanks to Slav Bagriantsev and Elena Gracheva for their support! science.org/toc/sciadv/11/9

See the 3D model of the Pacinian corpuscle here: skfb.ly/psDIK You can also rotate the Lamellar Schwann Cell, the sensory element within the corpuscle: skfb.ly/psETt

Check out this Science Magazine video 📽️ featuring Yale School of Medicine's PI Elena Gracheva & grad student Maddy Junkins👩‍🔬 as they explain the fascinating physiology of hibernation in 13-lined ground squirrels🐿💤️and the neurophysiology behind thirst suppression!🥤 science.org/content/articl…

Thrilled to share that our 4 years of hard work is finally published in Science Advances! 🚀🎉 Huge congratulations to the dream team: Monika Haoui, Citlalli Vergara, and our fantastic colleagues from the Marc Spehr group @MarcSpehr! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Check out the

This is the most important paper in the circadian field in over a decade. A completely new clock component that is evolutionarily conserved. Erquan Zhang Susan Golden @ Society for Research on Biological Rhythms rdcu.be/efxV8

In Touch: Details of the form & function of touch receptor components revealed by high-res microscopy & 3D reconstruction 📹 Luke H. Ziolkowski & Yury Nikolaev et al Slav Bagriantsev Elena Gracheva Yale University in Science Advances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/4… with John Ankers

📢 Congrats to the 2025 Kavli Innovative Teams Award 🏆 recipients! Cristina Rodríguez & Emilia Favuzzi and Slav Bagriantsev & Ben Machta These grants support the creation of innovative teams to seed future large-scale program grant applications. medicine.yale.edu/kavli/news-art…

🥳 Congrats to Zhen Lei @Ray32364897 (Junjie Guo 郭俊傑 & David Breslow) and Madeleine Junkins (Ruslan Medzhitov & Rui Chang) for being awarded the 2025 Kavli Postdoc Fellowship 🏆—pushing neuroscience forward through interdisciplinary, dual-mentored research! medicine.yale.edu/kavli/news-art…

Happy to share our latest #research on ion channels and fertility, published with Springer Nature in Nature Communications Want to know why testes are external and cool? Nature has evolved a beautifully precise system to ensure that sperm are primed for fertilization only at the perfect

We are seeking a postdoc to work on glia/neuron crosstalk in health, disease, and aging using C. elegans as a model system. We are particularly interested in individuals with experience in C. elegans or imaging techniques. Email: [email protected] #glia #ionchannels #aging

Microbiomes shape our biology from gut-brain, skin, immunology, and more. Here, Rebecka Sepela et al explores octopus “taste by touch” sensation to ask how environmental microbiomes drive animal behavior. Cell Press, MCB_Harvard, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on the Microbial World | The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/06/17/sci…

Stretch activation of Piezo1 channels doi.org/10.1007/s12551…

More from Rebecka Sepela on how octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predation and material care behavior: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Corey Allard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Cell Press, MCB_Harvard, Harvard Medical School cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Grateful to present our work at #worm25 #glia! 🪱🧬

New drawing! Ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (pdb 4M5W) It’s been a while since I last drew anything. Forgot how fun it is.

Happy to share structures of kainate receptor channel GluK2 in complex with auxiliary subunits Neto2, which slow receptor kinetics, in apo closed and open conducting states, both with 2-fold symmetrical LBD layer! Shanti Pal Gangwar Maria Karela Laura Yen nature.com/articles/s4159…