Conference Program

Avian odorant receptors: functional profiling and evidence of gene conversion-mediated evolution

Wanting Sun, Robert Driver, Hiroaki Matsunami. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Integration of glomerular activity assembles the components of odor scenes

Kristyn Lizbinski, Gizem Sancer, Kay Ellison, Helen Mao, Madeline Albanese, James Jeanne. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Sniffing as a Key Modulator of Thalamic Salience Processing in Mice

Janardhan P Bhattarai¹, Carolyn Mann¹, Geronimo Velazquez-Hernandez¹, Yingqi Wang¹, Brittany C Chapman¹, Sravana Nuti¹, Edgar Arturo Diaz Hernandez¹, Juee Naik¹, Tammi Coleman¹, Abby Lieberman¹, Marc V Fuccillo¹, Daniel W Wesson², Steven A Thomas³, Wenqin Luo¹, Timothy A Machado¹, Minghong Ma¹. ¹Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.²Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Center for Smell and Taste, Center for Addiction Research and Education University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.³Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Alzheimer’s pathobiology detection prior to symptom onset via olfactory biopsy analysis

Vincent M D'Anniballe¹, Bradley J Goldstein². ¹Duke Medical Scientist Training Program, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.²Department of Head and Neck Surgery a Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

A double-blind study of olfactory/sniff training with a randomized blank control group

Richard Doty¹, Crystal Wylie^{1, 3}, Ronald Devere², Vince Groso³, Shima Moein³, Marco Fornazieri⁴. ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, NJ, USA.²Taste and Smell Disorders Clinic, Austin, TX, USA.³Sensonics International, Haddon Heights, NJ, USA.⁴Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil

Slow-acting peripheral inhibition underlies the behavioral dominance of aversive acidic odors

Kay J. Ellison, Isaiah K. Asbed, James M. Jeanne. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Position-Specific Olfactory Signature Among Former Professional American-styleFootball Players

Benoit Jobin^{1, 2}, Colin Magdamo^{1, 2}, Rachel Grashow^{3, 4}, Michael Leung^{3, 4}, Ona Wu^{1, 2, 5}, Jacob Dodelson^{1, 2, 5}, Grant Iverson^{1, 2, 6}, Marc Weisskopf^{3, 4}, Ross Zafonte^{1, 2, 6}, Aaron Baggish¹, Mark Albers^{1, 2}. ¹Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.³Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.⁴The Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.⁵Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA.⁶Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA

A Low-Dimensional Code for Perceptual Similarity in Olfaction

Walter Bast¹, Cina Aghamohammadi², Priyanka Gupta¹, Tatiana Engel², Florin Albeanu¹. ¹Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.²Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA

The neural circuitry and coding of interoception

Catherine Gallori^{1, 2}, Tianxiao Huang¹, Shiqi Wang¹, Yandan Wang², Verina Leung¹, Tianbo Qi¹, Alex Hiroto¹, Bohan Lin¹, Li Ye¹, Stephen Liberles², Chen Ran¹. ¹The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Tongue-Innervating Trigeminal Neurons Reveals Distinct Populations of Pruriceptors and Mechanonociceptors

Afshin Faridiesfanjani¹, Katherine Chacon¹, Mark Gradwell², Michael Kissner³, Joriene De Nooij⁴, Yalda Moayedi¹. ¹Pain Research Center, Department of Molecular Pathobiology, New York University-College of Dentistry, New York, NY, New York, NY, USA.²Cell Biology and Neuroscience Department, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA., New Jersey, NJ, USA.³Columbia Stem Cell initiative, Columbia University Irving Medical Center., New York, NY, USA.⁴Department of Neurology Columbia University Medical Center, BB305 650 west 168th Street New York, NY 10032, New York, NY, USA

Microstructural Analysis of Sucrose Licking Behavior in Rats Chronically Treated with the Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Semaglutide.

A. Valentina Nisi¹, Ginger D. Blonde¹, Carolina R. Cawthon², Emily Gallagher¹, Galina Knysh¹, Joshua Hackett¹, Jacob Scarbrough¹, Alan C. Spector¹. ¹Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.²Department of Nutrition, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Juvenile exposure to a bitter diet increases acceptance of quinine in adulthood

Verenice Ascencio Gutierrez¹, Jyothi Vasavan¹, Kamila D Nixon¹, Ann-Marie Torregrossa^{1, 2}. ¹Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.²Center for Ingestive Behavior Research, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Tissue resident CD8+ T cell-mediated inflammation drives bitter sensitivity

Pavel Nesmiyanov, Flavia Saavedra, J. Michael Stolley. Cleveland Clinic Research, nDepartment of Inflammation a Immunity, Cleveland, OH, USA

Phasic Locus Coeruleus Activation Transforms Cortical Taste Representations Across Distinct Stimulus Dimensions

Will Fan, Natale R. Sciolino. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Peripheral Taste Function is Subject to Complex Modulation by Neuropeptide Y Family Peptides

Satya Iyer, Ritika Gangakhedkar, Irene Bhuiyan, Jean-Pierre R. Montmayeur, Cedrick D. Dotson. Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Effects of thermal conditioning on thermal-taste preferences in mice

Kyle T. Zumpano, Christian H. Lemon. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

SMELLiT Mobile App and Odor Awareness

Barr Herrnstadt. Weizmann Institute of Science

Using Art and Geography to Map Olfactory Public Spaces

Jennifer Kitson. Rowan University

Collecting Reliable Data to Map Odor Spaces

Emily Mayhew. Michigan State University

Guided Smell Safari to Quantify a new AChemS Smellscape

Emily Mayhew¹, Robert Robert². ¹Michigan State University .²Monell Chemical Senses Center

Olfaction impairment in older adults: Associations with health beyond COVID-19 and neurodegeneration

Honglei Chen. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Olfaction impairment in older adults: Associations with health beyond COVID-19 and neurodegeneration

Honglei Chen¹, Nicholas R Rowan², Yaquan Yu¹, Teresa Tian³, Jayant Pinto⁴. ¹Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Baltimore, MD, USA.³National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA.⁴University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Poor Olfaction and Risks of Pneumonia Hospitalization and Cardiovascular Diseases in Older Adults: Evidence from Two Community-Based Cohorts

Yaqun Yuan¹, Keran Chamberlin¹, Zhehui Luo¹, Chenxi Li¹, Jayant M. Pinto², Eleanor M. Simonsick³, Anna Kucharska-Newton⁴, Srishti Shrestha⁵, Honglei Chen¹. ¹Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.²Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA.³Translational Gerontology Branch, Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.⁴Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.⁵The Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Omics profiles of olfaction in aging and diseases

Qu Tian, Luigi Ferrucci. National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA

Olfaction and the health of older adults: knowledge gaps, challenges, and strategies

Jayant M. Pinto¹, Honglei Chen², Nicholas Rowan³, Qu Tian⁴, Yaqun Yuan². ¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.²Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.³Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.⁴National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA

Genes and Senses: Genetic Regulation of Chemosensation

Kevin Monahan¹, Hojoon Lee². ¹Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.²Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

The many ways to be bitter

Thirada Boonrawd, Syed Adnan Uddin, Hojoon Lee. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Activity dependent regulation of gene expression and chromatin structure in mouse olfactory sensory neurons

Joshua Danoff, Kevin Monahan. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

Metabolic Modulation of Taste Processing in the Brainstem

Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Deepthi Vasuki, Nilay Yapici. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Chemosensory neuromodulation by extracellular RNA transfer

Hayeon Sung¹, Sven Barvoetz², Jason Shepherd², Sophie Caron², Monica Dus¹. ¹The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Why do we eat what we eat?: Brain and metabolic responses to processed foods

Alexandra DiFeliceantonio. Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, USA

Misspecifying mechanisms misleads policy and practical solutions: it’s not about the processing

John E Hayes^{1, 2}. ¹Sensory Evaluation Center, University Park, PA, USA.²Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

A critical review of the epidemiological, randomized controlled trial, and mechanistic data on the health efficts of ultra-processed foods

Richard Mattes. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Dopamine Signaling in Humans: Influence of Dietary Stimulus, Metabolic State and Adiposity

Valerie Darcey. Section on Nutritional and Metabolic Neuroimaging Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA