We had our 2nd Department Retreat of the year! Gillian and Caro presented posters - good job! Gillian was also very close to win the quiz at the end of all the talks (remained as one of the last three)!
Xiaofang is a proud mother! (2023/11/14)
Another Chung lab baby boy has arrived! Ethan Wang was born on November 14, 2023, weighing 5 lb 13 ounce! Both Ethan and Xiaofang are doing well. Congratulations, Xiaofang and Xinbo! Welcome, Ethan!
Happy Birthday to Gillian (2023/10/12)
Beautiful weather to sit outside to celebrate Gillian’s birthday together! Happy Birthday, Gillian!
Baby shower for Xiaofang! (2023/10/06)
Xiaofang and Xinbo will be brand new parents in about a month! A surprise visit by Sarah made Xiaofang even happier! Look forward to meeting Xiaofang’s baby boy!
Gunther visits us in New Haven from Essen, Germany! (2023/10/05)
Caro’s postdoctoral advisor, Dr. Gunther Wennemuth, visited us in New Haven! Had a nice lunch out to catch things up!
Gunther at Harvey Cushing center with the famous collection of brain samples!
Chung lab fall outing for movie (2023/09/29)
On a rainy Friday afternoon, we went out for lunch and movie (the creator) in North Haven. It was fun and look forward to another movie or some other activity going forward!
Xiaofang's work is published in PNAS!
Congratulations, Xiaofang! Thanks to all the Chung lab members for your support and our wonder collaborators, Riccardo and Masa and their team for the contribution!
GRC Conference 2023
We had a wonderful time at the Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire this year! Everyone did such a great job during the poster session. We are looking forward to attending again next year!
Jean-Ju spoke at 2023 ESHRE in Copenhagen!
Jean-Ju was one of the two speakers in MHR symposium at 2023 ESHRE in Copenhagen!
Cellular & Molecular Physiology Department Retreat
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.
