Principal Investigator
Jean-Ju L. Chung, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of C&M Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
Research Interests: Fertility; Ion Channels; Reproduction; Sperm Capacitation; Sperm Motility; Signal Transduction; Membrane Microdomains
email: jean-ju.chung (at) yale.edu
Published Work in MyBibliography
BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Ju L. Chung received her bachelors and masters degree from Seoul National University, Korea and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2007. She was a postdoctoral fellow with David E. Clapham in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She joined Yale's Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology as a faculty member in 2015.
Her research is devoted to investigating cellular signaling via the membrane receptors and ion channels, with a current emphasis on mature spermatozoan motility and fertilization capacity. She has focused her efforts on the primary calcium channel of spermatozoa, CatSper, and has defined its subunits, its distribution in spermatozoa, its function in capacitation, and its effects on fertility. The Chung laboratory applies novel technologies to sperm biology and reproductive research including super-resolution imaging methods, and is continuing to study physiologically relevant molecular changes during mammalian fertilization.
Current Members
Xiaofang Huang
Postdoc Fellow
Dept. of C&M Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
email: xiaofang.huang@yale.edu
PhD, Nankai University, 2018
Alexander Brown Coxe Fellowship 2020; Lalor Fellowship (2021); MCI Fellowship (2023)
Jong-Nam Oh
Postdoc Fellow
Dept. of C&M Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
email: jongnam.oh@yale.edu
PhD, Seoul National University, 2022
Lalor Fellowship (2023, 2024)
Cameron Gardner
Postdoc Associate
Dept. of C&M Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
email: cameron.gardner@yale.edu
PhD, Miami University, 2023
Tianyu Zhu
Postdoc Associate
Dept. of C&M Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
email: t.zhu@yale.edu
PhD, Nanjing Medical University, 2021
Sofía Cancino
Post Graduate Research Associate
Dept. of C&M Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
email: sofia.cancino@yale.edu
B.S. Universidad Austral de Chile, 2021
Biochemist , Universidad Austral de Chile, 2023
Elle Stearns
Yale First-Year Summer Research Fellow
Yale University
email: elle.stearns@yale.edu
Lab Alumni
Huanan Shi (Frederick) (visiting student in research, 2015.09-2016.06)
- PhD, 2023 ( Baylor College of Medicine), currently Bioinformatics scientist at Regeneron
Lukas Ded (postdoc fellow, 2016.05-2017.03)
Min Cheol Lee (visiting student in research, 2016.07-2017.06)
Seema Patel (visiting minor-in-lab, 2017.02-2017.08)
- B.S., 2022, currently medical student at U Conn
Shoaib Nawaz (visiting PhD student on HEC of Pakistan sponsored IRSIP Fellowship, 2018.07-2019.01)
- PhD, 2022 (Qauid-i-Azam University), currently a postdoc fellow at Sidra medicine, Qatar
James Nicholas (Yale senior thesis student, 2018.09-2019.05)
Julia Tobin (Yale senior thesis student, 2018.09-2019.05)
Case Porter (Yale First Year Summer Research Fellow, 2019.05-2019-07)
Cynthia Frimmet (Undergraduate researcher, 2019.08-2020.05)
Luke McGoldrick (Postdoc fellow, 2019.10-2020.05)
- currently Scientist at Regeneron
Mira Raju (Yale First Year Summer Research Fellow, 2021.06-2021.08)
Huafeng Wang (Postdoc associate, 2018.01-2022.04)
- currently Associate Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine
Maggie Cao (Undergraduate researcher, 2021.06-2022.05)
Tse-en Wang (Postdoc fellow, 2021.09-2022.05)
- currently clinical engineer at Bonraybio, Taiwan
Jae Yeon Hwang (Postdoc associate, 2016.07-2021.06; Associate Research Scientist, 2021.07-2023.01)
- currently Assistant Professor at Pusan National University
Won-Ki Pang (visiting PhD student, 2022.09 - 2023.02) Brain Korea (BK) 21 Four Project and Chung-Ang University Global Leaders Program
- PhD, 2023 (Chung-Ang University), currently a postdoc fellow in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Olga Prieto (visiting PhD student, 2022.10 - 2023.03)
Sarah Franklin Finnegan (Research Assistant/Lab Manager, 2022.7-2023.08)
- currently at Boringer Ingelheim
Sona Relovska (Postdoc associate, 2022.07-2023.11)
- currently Postdoc at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
Caroline Wiesehoefer (visiting PostDoc, 2023.6-2024.5)
- currently PostDoc at University of Essen
Gillian Clouser (Post Graduate Research Associate, 2023.7-2024.8)
- currently PhD student at Yale University
Lena Zenisek (Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, 2024.6-2024.8)