Jean-Ju is appointed as the Francis G. Kingsley Memorial Fellow at Yale School of Medicine (2025-2028). Very grateful for the generous support!
Caro's work on sperm pH regulation by carbonic anhydrase is posted on bioRxiv (2025/10/13)
Time flies! Caro’s work during her stay at Yale is now posted on bioRxiv and submitted to a journal. Congratulations on Caro and Cameron for this achievement. Please check it out! https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.13.681600
First Quadro-Repro group meeting of 2025-2026 academic year! (2025/09/26)
Monthly a 4-way group meetings organized by 4 Yale labs enthusiastic about sperm, egg, fertilization, and reproduction (Jean-Ju Chung, Steven Tang, Binyam Mogessie, Hattie Chung). First meeting was held at YSM Physiology seminar room with two exciting on-going projects from Binyam’s and Hattie’s labs! Look forward to the next one at Science Hill!
10 years of Chung lab at Yale!! (2025/09/15)
The 10- year anniversary of the Chung lab’s research into ion channels and reproductive physiology began at Yale! Thank you all for doing great science and enjoying the journey together!
Welcome and Welcome back, Chung lab undergraduate researchers! (2025/09/08)
As new academic year begins, we welcome Hansel and Iris back to the lab after summer research and welcome Aastha to join Chung lab for their undergraduate research! Kudos to great mentor-mentee pairs (Tianyu-Hansel, Xiaofang-Iris, Jong-Nam-Aastha) in the lab!!
Chung lab on YouTube! Video highlighting research in Yale School of Medicine (2025/08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNohWpL4bPw
The video taken in March is now released officially
Whole lab attending GRC Fertilization/Jean-Ju got elected vic chair for 2027 GRC (2025/07/25-08/01)
A little bit of break from the bench to deep into Science! Discovered two Pho places on our way to and from Holderness :) All posters from the lab are well received.
Mingled with good all and new colleagues.
Jong-Nam’s talk got two ‘wow’ moments
Jean-Ju got elected to run the GRC as vice chair in 2027 and as chair in 2029!
A group photo before leaving GRC!
Farewell to Sofia (2025/05/30)
Sofia’s last day! She’ll start her master’s study in history of science in the fall at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Wish you all the best!
Jean-Ju chaired a session and gave data blitz at Biophysics of Motile Cilia meeting (2025/04/02)
The 2nd visit to Bad Honnef, a small town in North Rhein of Germany, which harbors Phyzikzentrum. Familiar faces on the wall and wonder program to get updated on Motile Cilia from structure to function, 830 WE Heraeus seminar!
Light and action! Filming Chung lab for a series of video highlighting research at YSM (2025/03/06)
YSM’s Office of Communications filmed the Chung lab on action and interviewed Jean-Ju as a series of producing brief videos highlighting the excellent research work at the school! It was fun experience to have a professional producer visiting the lab! An actual video to be released in April!
Xiaofang's talk to Tri-Repro Group meeting! (2025/02/12)
Xiaofag gave a nice presentation to Tri-Repro Group meeting. Many questions from the audience!
Jean-Ju gave PhD students' invited talk at ChemBIon symposium at University of Munster (2025/02/07)
Jean-Ju was one of the five speakers invited by the PhD students of “Chemical Biology of Ion Channels (Chembion)” training group at the University of Munster, Germany to the 6th annual ChemBion Symposium. Enjoyed interacting with the students and meeting new and good old colleagues!
The last pic is “A ladder to heaven” on Saint Lamber’s church.
Jean-Ju visited Caro and Gunther at University of Essen! (2025/02/05)
Jean-Ju visited Caro and Gunther at Essen!
Caro and Marc are doing great back in Germany! Good to see them again!
Jong-Nam gave a nice talk at Tri-Repro group meeting! (2025/01/22)
Jong-Nam presented his beautiful FIB-SEM data to Yale’s Tri-Repro group (Chung-Mogessie-Tang labs) monthly meeting! Good job, Jong-Nam!
Cameron's first birthday in Chung lab!
Cameron joined the lab last February and we celebrate his birthday in the lab for the first time! Happy Birthday, Cameron!
Starting 2025 with annual lab cleaning and bowling ! (2025/01/03)
On our first day back together in the lab after holidays, we started fresh by tidying up and deep-cleaning the lab!
The next day, the lab went bowling and had a dinner at Jean-Ju’s. A fun start! Happy New Year!
Xiaofang gave a very nice presentation at Dept Research-In-Progress (2024/12/09)
A wonderful talk, a lot of questions from the audience, and great feedback from faculty! Good job, Xiaofang!
Xiaofang's commentary is published in Current Biology as Dispatch (2024/12/02)!
Congratulations, Xiaofang! A very well-written piece!
Happy Birthday, Xiaofang! (2024/11/25)
Many lab birthdays in November! This year Thanksgiving is a bit late so we got lucky to celebrate Xiaofang’s birthday together! Happy Birthday, Xiaofang!
We have a new preprint from the lab! (2024/11/18)!
We posted a new manuscript on CatSper epsilon in the channel assembly and activity modulation to bioRxiv! Congratulations, Jae, Huafeng, Gillian, and Jong-Nam! A great team effort!