Jean-Ju gave a talk at the department retreat and Jong-Nam participated in the poster session. It was a great time to hear about research happening in our department!
Dr. Chung is an Invited Speaker at FASEB
Jean-Ju is an invited speaker at The Illuminating the Understudied Sruggable Proteome Conference this week in Southbridge, Massachusetts. She will present “The CatSper: an attractive target for male fertility treatment and contraception" on June 6th.
SSR Features Dr. Chung in Weekly Newsletter
Jean-Ju was featured in the Society for the Study of Reproduction newsletter for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Below is a brief synopsis of the article, but the full story can be found here.
Congrats to Gillian!
We are happy to announce that Gillian was awarded a MCI travel scholarship for the GRC conference this summer! We are looking forward to attending!
Congrats to Jong-Nam!
Jong-Nam has just been awarded the Lalor Fellowship! We are so excited for him!
Weill Cornell Medicine Invited Speaker
Jean-Ju will speak at the Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Seminar Series on March 15th. We are looking forward to hearing her talk "Sperm structures meet function"!
Speaker at BPS 2023
Jean-Ju attended the 2023 Biophysical Society’s Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. She held her presentation entitled “Sperm Flaggelar CATSPER Calcium Channels” on Monday, February 20th.
Farewell Professor Hwang!
Jae has been in the Chung Lab since June of 2016! He has been a core member from the start and will be greatly missed. The lab had a great time celebrating his accomplishments at Bar Pizza. We wish him all the best of luck as he starts his new position at Pusan National University in South Korea!
Washington University Invited Speaker
On January 9th, Jean-Ju was invited to speak at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The talk was entitled “CATSPER channels: Structure meets function”. Thank you for this opportunity!
Lab Holiday Party
Jean-Ju hosted lab members at her house to celebrate the upcoming holidays. We had a pot luck style dinner and played games together. Happy Holidays, everyone!
Dr. Chung featured in C&EN News Article
Jean-Ju was interviewed for an article in the Chemical & Engineering News! Check out the article “Birth control for men” here.
Gillian's Undergraduate Presentation
On November 14th Gillian shared the findings for her research project at the Timothy Dwight College Senior Mellon Forum. Many lab members went to support. Great job, Gillian!
Olga's Birthday Celebration!
Olga hosted all of her friends at her house for her birthday on November 8th. She prepared a traditional Spanish meal for everyone to enjoy. Happy Birthday, Olga!
Lab Social Celebration!
The lab went out for lunch to eat pizza in order to celebrate Dr. Chung and Olga’s birthdays. It was also an extra celebration to congratulate Dr. Chung and Jae on the success of the completion of writing their manuscript.
Hosting Dr. Alessio Accardi
On Thursday, October 20th Dr. Alessio Accardi from Weill Cornell Medical School visited Yale University as a guest speaker. His talk was entitled “Flipping Lipids: In or Out of the Groove?”. Pictured below, the Chung lab trainees enjoyed their lunch with Dr. Accardi.
ION CHANNELS SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF DAVID E. CLAPHAM, M.D., PH.D.
Dr. Chung and the post docs traveled to Boston, MA on August 27th to attend the symposium in honor of Dr. Clapham, Dr. Chung’s former mentor. Dr. Chung gave welcoming remarks and helped organize the event. Everyone had a great time!
Department Happy Hour to Welcome New Members Soña and Sarah
After listening to Soña’s first Journal Club presentation, the department had a celebration of summer out in the Rose Garden, with pizza, drinks, and music!
Jae gave a good presentation in Journal Club (7/1/2022)
July 1st, 2022
We're on YaleNews! (6/29/2022)
Our work with Daniela Nicastro group put the CatSper structure into context!
Also on “YaleCampus” YouTube Channel (https://youtu.be/1Ew1GUcNI1k)
Jean-Ju is an invited speaker at GRC Calcium Signaling (6/19/2022)
First time on GRC Calcium signaling! An exciting meeting to participate again!