45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences
April 19-22, 2023
Bonita Springs, FL

Printable Program & Abstracts



Wednesday, April 22, 2026
12:00 - 3:30 PMSnowy Egret
Executive Committee Meeting (Invite Only)

4:00 - 5:00 PMGarden Courtyard
Meet and Greet

5:00 - 5:30 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
Welcome & Awards Ceremony

5:30 - 6:30 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
Keynote Lecture

6:30 - 8:30 PMSouth Deck/South Beach
Welcome Banquet (Ticket Required)



Thursday, April 23, 2026
7:30 - 9:00 AMPavilion/ Pavilion Lawn
Breakfast with Industry

8:00 - 10:00 AMPavilion
Poster Session I

10:15 - 12:15 PMBird Key Ballroom
DATA DRIVEN TOOLS FOR SENSORY PREDICTION

Chair(s): Kathryn Deibler, Xiaorong (Phoebe) Su, Ann-Marie Torregrossa, Casey Trimmer, Theresa White
10:15 - 12:15 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
THE APPETITION AXIS: INTEGRATING PHASIC SENSORY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS TO DRIVE INGESTION

Chair(s): Lindsey Schier
12:15 - 2:00 PMLunch On Own
Lunch On Own

2:00 - 3:30 PMBird Key Ballroom
Journal Club

2:00 - 3:30 PMJacaranda Hall
Practical demonstrations of clinical chemosensory tests

This practical session is meant to provide a very practical overview about techniques that are used in a clinical context to assess chemosensory functions, including olfactory, gustatory, and trigeminal functions. In addition, techniques to address psychological/cognitive issues related to olfactory function and dysfunction will be shown. The various techniques will be presented by researchers experienced in clinical chemosensory research, including Bob Pellegrino from Philadelphia, Caroline Huart from Brussels, and Akshita Joshi from Bethesda and Thomas Hummel from Dresden.

There will be 4 stations, and the participants would rotate clockwise through stations 1 to 4. They will stay at each station for 15 min. The 4 stations will be: Station 1: Smell testing (e.g., Sniffin Sticks, UPSIT, CCCRC test, SSParoT, retronasal testing): Thomas Hummel, Dresden, Germany; Station 2: Taste testing (e.g., taste sprays, taste strips, electrogustometry, PROP/PTC test): Robert Pellegrino, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Station 3: Trigeminal testing (e.g., lateralization, AMMOLA-test, oral capsaicin test, CO2 threshold): Akshita Joshi, Bethesda, USA; Station 4: Psychological testing/questionnaires (e.g., SNOT, QOD, WHO wellbeing, MOCA): Caroline Huart, Brussels, Belgium


Chair(s): Thomas Hummel
3:30 - 5:30 PMPavilion
Poster Session II

5:45 - 6:45 PMGarden Courtyard
Networking Reception

7:30 - 9:30 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
Polak Awards Lectures

The Polak Foundation Awards are awarded in honor of the Elsje-Werner-Polak Memorial Fund in memory of our niece gassed by the Nazis in 1944 at age 7: Ghislaine Polak and the late Ernest Polak.




Friday, April 24, 2026
7:30 - 9:00 AMPavilion/ Pavilion Lawn
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 10:00 AMPavilion
Poster Session III

10:15 - 12:15 PMBird Key Ballroom
LATERALIZED AND INTEGRATED PROCESSING IN THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM

Chair(s): Thorsten Kahnt and Clara Raithel
10:15 - 12:15 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
NEW APPROACH METHODOLOGIES (NAMS) IN CHEMOSENSORY AND INTEROCEPTION RESEARCH

Chair(s): Ben Smith and Danielle Reed
12:15 - 1:30 PMLunch On Own
Lunch On Own

1:30 - 2:30 PMBird Key Ballroom
Business Meeting

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


2:30 - 3:30 PMBird Key Ballroom
DEIB Lecture

3:45 - 5:45 PMPavilion
Poster Session IV

7:30 - 9:30 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
Award Lectures



Saturday, April 25, 2026
7:30 - 9:00 AMPavilion/ Pavilion Lawn
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 10:00 AMPavilion
Poster Session V

10:15 - 12:15 PMBird Key Ballroom
Oral Abstracts

10:15 - 12:15 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
Oral Abstracts

12:15 - 1:30 PMLunch On Own
Lunch On Own

1:30 - 3:30 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
Smell Safari: Field-Based Tools for Mapping and Communicating Human Smellscapes

To link odor exposure to human well-being (Bratman et al. 2024), track landscape-scale change (e.g., pollution effects; Quercia et al. 2015), and anchor chemosensory neuroscience in real-world odor statistics (Wachowiak et al. 2025), researchers must move beyond the laboratory and conduct controlled field studies. The proposed workshop will introduce and evaluate new methodologies for capturing, quantifying, and communicating the olfactory dimension of outdoor environments, an emerging frontier for chemosensory science. Three complementary talks will move from personal odor logging, to art-based engagement, to quantitative odor measurement, and finally to an on-site “Smell Safari” around the new AChemS venue in St. Pete, Florida. Collectively, the workshop will (i) highlight mobile and crowd-sourced approaches that scale olfactory research beyond the laboratory, (ii) demonstrate how trans-disciplinary collaborations with the arts and environmental humanities can broaden public awareness of smell, and (iii) provide attendees with an overview of sensory and psychophysical methods used in the laboratory and how they can be translated to field protocols to build georeferenced “smellscape” datasets. Lastly, the workshop will end with an interactive smell walk activity to explore and tag odors in the new St. Pete conference environment using the tools and techniques discussed. By centering smell in real-world contexts, the workshop will advance discussion on how human olfaction shapes well-being while showcasing new approaches to collecting data and capturing naturalistic smellscapes. It will also be fun! As the workshop is designed to engage trainees through both junior-investigator presentations and hands-on data collection during the concluding indoor / outdoor exercise.


Chair(s): Robert Pellegrino
2:00 - 3:30 PMBird Key Ballroom
The Barry Davis Funding Workshop for New Investigators

3:30 - 3:45 PMGRAND PALM COLONNADE
Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45 PMBird Key Ballroom
Clinical Symposium

3:45 - 5:45 PMSawyer Key Ballroom
GENES AND SENSES: GENETIC REGULATION OF CHEMOSENSATION

Chair(s): Kevin Monahan and Hojoon Lee
7:30 - 9:30 PMBird Key Ballroom
Presidential Symposium

9:30 - 12:00 AMSawyer Key Ballroom
Dance Party