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Friday, April 24th

7:30 - 9:00 AM
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Pavilion/ Pavilion Lawn
8:00 - 10:00 AM
POSTER SESSION III
Pavilion
10:15 - 12:15 PM
LATERALIZED AND INTEGRATED PROCESSING IN THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM
Chair/Organizer: Thorsten Kahnt and Clara Raithel
Bird Key Ballroom

10:15
Lateralized and integrated processing in the olfactory system
Thorsten Kahnt. NIDA IRP, Baltimore, MD, USA

10:25
Piriform cortex takes sides: temporally-segregated odor representations from ipsilateral and contralateral nostrils within a sniff
G. Naz Dikecligil1, Andrew I. Yang2, Kathryn A. Davis1, Jay A. Gottfried1. 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.2Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA

10:55
Exploring lateralized processing in the human olfactory system
Clara U Raithel, Jaylen Worthy, Rhianna Sullivan, Thorsten Kahnt. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

11:15
Bilateral integration of odor information in the mouse
Venkatesh N Murthy1, 2, Leannah Schmitt1, 2, Siddharth Jayakumar1, 2, Julien Grimaud3. 1Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.2Dept of Molecular a Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.3SupBiotech, Lrecole des ingenieurs en biotechnologies, Paris, France

11:45
Brain-wide representations of olfactory navigational behavior in C. elegans
Helena Casademunt, Aravinthan Samuel. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

NEW APPROACH METHODOLOGIES (NAMS) IN CHEMOSENSORY AND INTEROCEPTION RESEARCH
Chair/Organizer: Ben Smith and Danielle Reed
Sawyer Key Ballroom

10:15
New approach methodologies (NAMs) in chemosensory and interoception research
Benjamin Smith, Danielle Reed. Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

10:25
Building Confidence in NAMs: Lessons from Regulatory Science
Thomas Hartung. Johns Hopkins University

10:55
New approach methodologies in olfactory dysfunction: human organoids as a species-specific in vitro model
Jennifer E. Douglas1, 2, Ankit Chauhan1, Kang-Hoon Kim2, Danielle R. Reed2, Noam A. Cohen1, 2, 3, Peihua Jiang2, Hong Wang2. 1University of Pennsylvania, Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head a Neck Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.3Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center Surgical Services, Philadelphia, PA, USA

11:15
Chicken Egg as a Translational New Approach Methodology (NAM) in Sensory Science: Insights from Genotoxicity Studies
Tetyana Cheairs. Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

11:45
Can AI Understand the Physical World Without Smelling it? A Multimodal Representational Framework for Olfaction
Kordel France1, Tian Yu2, Michelle Niedziela3. 1University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.2Amai Consulting, LLC, Denver, CO, USA.3Nerdoscientist, LLC, Chalfont, PA, USA
12:15 - 1:30 PM
LUNCH ON OWN
Lunch On Own
1:30 - 2:30 PM
BUSINESS MEETING
Bird Key Ballroom

Get involved! All members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

2:30 - 3:30 PM
BOOST LECTURE
Bird Key Ballroom

Flight by Night, or the Ecological and Anatomical Context of Bat Chemosensory Evolution
Liliana Davalos. Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University
3:45 - 5:45 PM
POSTER SESSION IV
Pavilion
7:30 - 9:30 PM
AWARD LECTURES
Sawyer Key Ballroom