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!

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!

Masa gave a talk at Yale MB&B (2024/11/11)

Steven Tang and Jean-Ju Chung lab hosted Dr. Masahito Ikawa from Osaka University as MB&B Special Seminar. A great talk showing Masa’s lifetime scientific journey in male reproduction and fertilization research! We had great time to catch up and discuss the lab projects.

Jean-Ju gave a keynote speech at Johns Hopkins BCMB program (2024/11/03)

Jean-Ju gives a keynote speaking at her alma mater, Johns Hopkins BCMB program. Visited Hopkins after more than 15 + years - some changes but also very familiar scenes of the buildings! Special feeling to come back and reconnect with my classmate, Luisa Cochella, who organized the retreat, as well as many good old faculty whose lectures I attended and meet new colleagues and students at this beautiful venue at Chesapeake Bay!

We celebrated Jean-Ju's tenure (2024/10/11)

Jean-Ju got officially tenured at Yale. The lab went out to celebrate! Congratulations!!

2024 Physiology Retreat! (2024/10/01)

Gillian gave a trainee presentation on her work on her work done in the lab at the platform! Jong-Nam, Cameron, Sofia had nice poster presentations!

Lab summer party! (2024/07/27)

We had nice BBQ and fun water activities!

Jean-Ju gave a talk at ESHRE 40th Annual Meeting (2024/07/09)

2nd time invited speaking at European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), this time in Amsterdam, Netherland! Met a lab alumni, Tse-En at her company booth again!

We welcome two undergraduate researchers in summer 2024! (2024-05)

We welcome Elle Stearn and Lena Zenisek to work in Chung lab as undergraduate researchers this summer! Elle is a Yale college student and Yale First-Year Summer Research Fellow under supervision of Gillian and Cameron. Lena is a U Conn honors program student and work with Jong-Nam.

Jean-Ju gave a talk at Ion Channel Modulation Symposium (2024/05) 4/4, Tokyo, Japan

Organized by Sophion. Last but not the least, a great opportunity to interact with ion channel physiologists in Japan and many other countries! First time to visit Tokyo and Tokyo University. It was fun!

Jean-Ju had a series of invited speaking (2024/05) 2/4 - Zhejiang Univ. Hangzhou, China

Good to deliver a full one hour seminar once in a while! Was able to deliver full overview and recent development on CatSper! Beautiful Hangzhou and Zhejiang University.

Jean-Ju had a series of invited speaking (2024/05) 1/4 (SCSC, Wuhan, China)

While visiting 4 cities in 3 countries!

1/4 Kicking off the trip by visiting Wuhan, China to attend the 13th Symposium on Ca2+ signaling in China (SCSC) organized by Haoxing Xu and Bi Zhang. Met Dr. Erwin Nehr, the inventor of patch clamp and mentor of my postdoc mentor!

We hosted Department Happy Hour themed "international food festival" (2024/05/10)

Chung lab presented foods from 5 countries (Chille, China, Germany, Korea, and USA) representing where we are from and it was a blast! “Your lab raised Dept. Happy Hour to another level!” someone told us. Certainly, the air-filled smell of pan-fried Korean pancake cooked on spot by Jong-Nam contributed to the scene quite a lot!