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Jean-Ju gave a talk at GRC Mammalian Reproduction (2026-08-09)
Under the title of “Sperm Built-in Machinery Across Fertilization”, Jean-Ju talked about Xiaofang’s TRIM69 story!
A new preprint is available from Jong-Nam's study on CATSPER Beta! (2026-08-07)
Congratulations Jong-Nam on this milestone! By using 3 mouse lines, Jong-Nam identifies an important protein-protein interaction region of CATSPER beta, which affects the stability of a neighboring subunit delta, thus canopy assembly and the subsequent pore-forming channel, rending the mice missing this interaction region completely infertile. Please check out https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.06.743317
We met Handsome Dan "in-dog" in Dept. Happy Hour (2026-07-31)
Handsome Dan’s visit to Dept. was a hit!
2026 Chung Lab Summer Outing (2026-07-10)
Chung Lab Summer Outing to the Lighthouse Point Beach and State Park! We had BBQ lunch at Bear’s, then head to Lighthouse to do Frisbee, catch ball, and walk along the beach with picnic snacks!
Felix joins the lab! (2026-07-01)
Felix joins the lab as Post-doctoral fellow supported by DFG fellowship from Germany! He brings his medicinal chemistry expertise to the lab and we look forward to working with him and having fun doing science together!
Dept. Happy Hour co-hosted by Chung and Schneeberger lab (2026-06-26)
The World Cup Season!
Jean-Ju co-hosted Invited Talks by Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan organized by AFAY (2026-06-23)
AFAY invited Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan for their life-long impact on science and mentorship in the fields of Physiology and Neuroscience! Together, they have mentored more than 170 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, with nearly 100 going on to establish their own independent laboratories. As one of the many F2s of Dr. Lily Jan myself 😃, it was a tremendous honor to host her during their visit to Yale!
Chung Lab is featured in Yale Medicine Magazine | The Fundamentals (2026-05-26)
Scientists Look to Sperm to Improve Reproductive Health and Beyond By Isabella Beackman
Hansel and Aastha coming back to the lab as summer undergraduate researchers! (2026-05-26)
Both Hansel and Aastha began their full time summer research internship in the lab, supported by Yale Dean’s Fellowship and Summer Experience Award, respectively. Congratulations and welcome back!
Jean-Ju was an invited speaker at EMBO | FEBS lecture course on Ion Channels and Transporters (2026-05-14)
Returning to Erice, Sicily for this course after 2022 when I was locked in this beautiful medieval town for more than 10 additional days after adjourning the course due to COVID. Many memories for all the little alleys! This time we get to visit La Sicilia del Temple, a Roman ruin (in fact, one of the most intact temples). Great course, highly recommended for trainees!
We celebrated Jong-Nam's Birthday together (2026-05-05)
Happy Birthday, Jong-Nam!
Cameron gave a talk at Cilia Club (2026-05-01)
A very nice presentation on ARMC3 project. We got a great input and encouragement from Joel Rosenbaum!
Jean-Ju gave a talk in Regulation of Male Fertility at the 28th North American Testis Workshop (2026-04-16)
In the desert wonderland, Pheonix, AZ, Jean-Ju presented unpublished work on our strategies targeting CatSper!
Jean-Ju had a wonderful visit to U Mass Amherst (2026-04-01)
Jean-Ju gave a seminar in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Science at U Mass Amherst. A wonderful visit again to see good old colleagues and new ones in the vibrant and supportive research community!
March was Jong-Nam's presentation month! (2026-03)
Jong-Nam gave very nice presentations on his FIB-SEM project in the Department Research-In-Progress talks (2026-03-09) and Yale Korean Bioscience Society (2026-03-26)
and another talk on his CatSper Beta project in the Quadro-Repro meeting (2025-03-02)
Hansel is awarded Dean's Summer Research Fellowship! (2026-03-25)
Congratulations, Hansel! The lab will have him working full time in the lab over the summer!
Freddie is joining the Chung lab for his PhD thesis! (2026-03-04)
Freddie Parekh-Glitsch will join the Chung lab! Welcome on board, Freddie!
Jean-Ju gave a talk at YALE & IDIBAPS Scientific Exchange Symposium (2026-02-10)
Jean-Ju was one of Dept. delegates, together with Michael Caplan, Elena Gracheva, and Slav Bagriantsev, at Yale & IDIBAPS Scientific Exchange Symposium to establish collaborative exchanges.
Our work on CATSPER Epsilon is now published in Science Advances! (2026-01-28)
Congratulations on Jae and Huafeng and all others who contributed this work! Not only we show that the CatSper canopy is essential for the holo-complex assembly, but also demonstrate the molecular region that could be targeted for CatSper activity for the first time, a one more step for future therapeutics targeting CatSper!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw3414