2023 Symposia


Keynote Lecture Sponsored By ADM



    Makedonka Mitreva, PhD
    Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis

    IMPROVING GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH (META)GENOMIC STUDIES OF NEGLECTED PARASITES


Advanced techniques for high-resolution functional MRI and EEG recording in the olfactory bulb and associated olfactory regions in the brain

  • Chair: Jun Hua - Johns Hopkins University

Thorsten Kahnt- NIH/NIDA
Using high-precision mapping to reveal the structure of odor coding in the human brain

Yu Luo- Johns Hopkins University
Functional MRI in the olfactory bulb and associated olfactory regions in the human brain

Johan Lundström - Karolinska Institutet,
Electrobulbogram – a non-invasive measure from the human olfactory bulb

Alex Poplawsky - University of Pittsburgh
Contrast-enhanced fMRI measures layer-specific neural activity in the rodent olfactory bulb


Age-related chemosensory dysfunction

  • Chair: Bradley Goldstein - Duke University

Antje Welge-Lussen- University of Basel
Age-related taste dysfunction

Thomas Hummel - University of Dresden Medical School
Age-related trigeminal dysfunction

Erik Holbrook- Harvard
Age-related olfactory dysfunction

Caroline Huart- Catholic University of Louvain
Olfactory dysfunction and cognitive decline

Frank Lin - Johns Hopkins University
Hearing loss, cognition, and dementia – from epidemiological studies to the ACHIEVE randomized trial


Carrying taste information to the brain: development, adult plasticity, connectivity and modulation

  • Chairs: Nirupa Chaudhari - University of Miami Medical School & Robin Krimm - University of Louisville

Thomas Finger - University of Colorado Anschutz
Serial section analysis of Synapses and Connectivity win Circumvallate Taste Buds of Mice

Zachary Whiddon - University of Louisville
Dynamics of branching and connectivity of gustatory afferents

Lindsay MacPherson - University of Texas San Antonio
Contrasting the neurons innervating diverse oral taste buds

Brian Pierchala - Indiana University School of Medicine
Ribosomal profiling of oral sensory neurons identifies developmental mechanisms of cell fate specification


Learning and memory in the chemical senses

  • Chairs: Kathrin Ohla - Firmenich SA and Qi Yuan - Memorial University Newfoundland

Veronica Flores - Furman University & Brandeis University
The impact of incidental taste learning on future taste learning and cortical taste processing

Qi Yuan - Memorial University Newfoundland
Piriform cortex as a plasticity site for 2nd order “odor” conditioning in rats

Kathrin Ohla - Firmenich SA
Capacity and organization of human taste working memory

Andrew Yang - Emory University
Oscillatory working memory mechanisms in the human medial temporal lobe: is olfaction special?


Odor driven processing across distributed neural circuits

  • Chairs: Renee Hartig - Nathan Kline Institute and Wolfgang Kelsch - Johannes Gutenberg University

Marta Zakrzewska - Karolinska Institute
Body Odors and Avoidance: From Sickness Detection to Prejudice

Noam Sobel - Weizmann Institute
Shifted Functionality from the Accessory to Main Olfactory System Through Human Evolution

David Wolf - Central Institute for Mental Health
Olfactory network response dynamics encode oxytocin-enabled memories of social familiarity

Dan Wesson - University of Florida
Encoding of odor driven information across ventral striatal circuitry.


Presidential Symposium: Odor-Guided Behavior in Natural Environments

  • Chair: Danielle Reed - Monell Chemical Senses Center

Ellen De Obaldia - Kingdom Supercultures

Katherine Nagel- NYU Langone Health


Physiology of extraoral taste receptors

  • Chair: Masha Niv - The Hebrew University

Walter Thomas - University of Queensland
A bitter taste in your heart: cardiac cells expressing T2Rs and polymorphisms that affect cardiac function

George A. Kyriazis- The Ohio State University
Muscle-Expressed Sweet Taste Receptors Regulate Mitochondrial Function and Muscle Fit-ness in Mice and Humans

Rob Lee - University of Pennsylvania
Bitter taste receptors in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and beyond

Lior Peri - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Combining cell-based and computational methods to unravel T2R14 antagonists


Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, A Tribute Symposium

  • Chair: Claire Murphy - San Diego State University

Debara Tucci - NIH/NIDCD
 In honor of Dr. James Byron Snow

Eric Holbrook- Harvard
In honor of Dr. Donald Leopold

Stuart Firestein - Columbia University
In honor of Dr. Gordon Shepherd