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Welcome! Please find the current preliminary program for AChemS 2023 listed below. Note that any aspect of this program is subject to change.

April 19 (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM): Pre-Meeting
April 19-22: AChemS Annual Meeting Program



Thursday, April 24th

7:30 - 9:00 AM
BREAKFAST WITH INDUSTRY
Estero Foyer

dsm-firmenich
Our purpose is to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. Join us at our table to discover what diverse research careers are possible for industry scientists in a variety of research and product development roles in areas such as receptor biology, neuroscience, microbiome, psychophysics, materials science, chemistry, and technical product development.

Cargill
Cargill, a global leader in food and agriculture, is committed to providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions, and industrial products to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.

Sensonics International
Sensonics International provides high-quality smell and taste tests for medical, scientific, and industrial use. Our Smell Identification Test™ (UPSIT®) is the world’s most widely used olfactory test. We offer innovative electrogustometers, taste tests, and the Sensametrix® Smell Training System. Our products are globally distributed. Currently expanding and seeking qualified scientists to support our research program.

8:00 - 10:00 AM
POSTER SESSION I
Estero Ballroom
10:00 - 12:00 PM
NON-GUSTATORY OROSENSORY MECHANISMS THAT DICTATE WHETHER TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT
Chair/Organizer: Snigdha Mukerjee & Stephen Roper
Calusa EFGH

10:00
Introduction
Stephen Roper. University of Miami

Other
Trigeminal mechanosensory mechanisms and impacts on food choice
Yalda Moayedi. Pain Research Center, Department of Molecular Pathobiology, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, NY, USA

Chemesthesis
POLAK YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDEE: Trigeminal circuits dictate innate rejection thresholds for ethanol through oral chemesthesis
Snigdha Mukerjee, Yizhen Quan, Keaton Song, Aditya H. Bhatt, David B. Cohen, Vikrant R. Mahajan, Rachelle Larivee, Steven Pierce, Alex R. Brown, Zahra Z. Farahbakhsh, Kirsty Erickson, Cody Siciliano. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Chemesthesis
Oral trigeminal perception of astringency, capsaicin, and stereognosis: exploring individual variability and impact of taste dysfunction
Mariano Mastinu. Smell a Taste clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Chemesthesis
Playing with fire: if it hurts, why do we keep eating it?
John E. Hayes1, 2. 1Sensory Evaluation Center, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State, Unversity Park, PA, USA.2Dept of Food Science, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA

Chemesthesis
Neurobiology and psychophysics of oral chemesthesis
Earl Carstens. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

ODOR QUALITY PREDICTION
Chair/Organizer: Jessica Brann & Casey Trimmer
Calusa ABC

Olfactory Coding
Odor Quality Prediction: Cracking the Odor Code
Jessica H. Brann, Casey Trimmer. dsm-firmenich, New York, NY, USA

10:05
Elemental encoding at the olfactory periphery
Daniel A. Raps, Lily Wu, Giulia Papiani, Georgia M. Pierce, Imraan Adat, Randy Arroyave, Jessica H. Brann, Patrick Pfister. DSM-Firmenich AG, 250 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA

Olfactory Coding
Do Neurons Matter? Using Neural Recordings of Odor Representations to Inform Predictive Models of Odor Quality
Matt Wachowiak. Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Olfactory Coding
Predicting Human Olfactory Perception from Stimulus Chemistry
Emily J Mayhew. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Other
From woody to fruity: Leveraging substructural features for odor prediction of complex mixtures
Doris Schicker1, Satnam Singh1, 2, Jessica Freiherr1, 2, Andreas Grasskamp1. 1Department of Sensory Analytics and Technologies, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Freising, Germany.2Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Olfactory Coding
Integrating Chemical, Sensory, and Expert Knowledge Data for Predicting Odor Profiles in Complex Mixtures
Thierry Thomas-Danguin. Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l'Alimentation, INRAE, CNRS, Institut Agro, Universite Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, France
12:00 - 2:00 PM
LUNCH ON OWN
Lunch On Own
12:30 - 2:00 PM
THE BARRY DAVIS FUNDING WORKSHOP FOR NEW INVESTIGATORS
Chair/Organizer: Nirupa Chaudhari and Diego Restrepo
Calusa ABC

This workshop will include an overview of research, training, and funding opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage investigators. The discussion will provide practical information on how grant applications are processed within NIH/NIDCD, including Institute and study section assignments, the peer review process, Advisory Council activities, pay lines, and the roles of program and review staff.

2:00 - 4:00 PM
EMERGING THERAPEUTICS FOR OLFACTORY DYSFUNCTION
Chair/Organizer: Kai Zhao
Calusa ABC

Olfactory Dysfunctio
Emerging therapeutics for olfactory dysfunction
Kai Zhao. Department of Otolaryngology, HeadaNeck Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Olfactory Dysfunctio
Inflammation and Olfaction: What’s the link?
Justin Turner. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Olfactory Dysfunctio
Emerging Therapies for Olfactory Dysfunction: From Preclinical Studies to Randomized Controlled Trials
Carol Yan. University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Olfactory Dysfunctio
The Future of Treating Smell Loss
Zara M. Patel. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Olfactory Dysfunctio
The use of neuromodulators to improve parosmia after COVID-19 infection
Do Yeon Cho. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Olfactory Dysfunctio
Designing non-invasive smell aids to improve olfactory function in patients with broad etiologies including long COVID: A Clinical Trial.
Veronica L. Formanek, Barak M. Spector, Gabriela Zappitelli, Zhenxing Wu, Kai Zhao. Department of Otolaryngology - Head a Neck Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

VISCERAL AND SENSORY SIGNALING IN FOOD REWARD VALUATION
Chair/Organizer: Janina Seubert & Geraldine Coppin
Calusa EFGH

Other
Merging the two roads-current insights on integration of visceral and sensory signalling in food reward valuation
Janina Seubert1, Geraldine Coppin2, 3. 1Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.2Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland.3UniDistance Suisse, Geneva, Switzerland

Neural Pathways
Gustatory and Interoceptive Pathways Modulate Striatal Reward Circuits to Regulate Sugar Intake
Luis A Tellez1, Rafael Sandoval-Rodr?aguez1, Wenfei Han2, 3, Ivan E de Araujo2, 3. 1Institute of Neurobiology at UNAM, Queretaro, Mexico.2 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.3Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany

Cortex
Reliability-Dependent Integration of Multisensory Flavor Signals by Gustatory Cortex Neurons
Joost X Maier, Isabella B Allar. Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA

Hedonics
Metabolic modulation of appetitive odor processing in food reward valuation
Androula Savva1, 2, Marc Guitart-Masip3, 4, 5, Ata Ghaderi1, Cynthia M. Bulik2, 6, 7, Janina Seubert1. 1Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychology Division, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.2Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.3Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.4Center for Psychiatry Research, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.5Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuropsychiatry (CCNP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.6Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.7Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Obesity
How Sleep Patterns Impact Chemosensory Processing and Eating Behaviors
Surabhi Bhutani. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

Cognition
How do sound and light cues alter motivation for risky gambles?
Catharine A. Winstanley. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
4:00 - 6:00 PM
POSTER SESSION II
Estero Ballroom
6:00 - 7:00 PM
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Calusa Foyer
7:00 - 8:20 PM
POLAK AWARDS LECTURES
Chair/Organizer: Ann-Marie Torregrossa
Calusa EFGH

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.


Taste Preference
The molecular and cellular mechanisms of alkaline taste sensation in Drosophila
Tingwei Mi1, John Mack1, Wyatt Koolmees1, Quinn Lyon1, Luke Yochimowitz1, Zhao-Qian Teng2, Peihua Jiang1, Craig Montell3, Yali Zhang1, 4. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA.2State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.3Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.4Department of Physiology, The Diabetes Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA

Buds & Cells
Identification of putative oral mechanosensory end-organs
Debarghya Dutta Banik1, Tao Tang1, Nicholas P. Weber2, Suzanne I. Sollars2, Brian A. Pierchala1. 1Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology a Physiology, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.2Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA

Olfactory Bulb
Olfactory Bulb Activity And Active Sniffing During Naturalistic Foraging In Freely Moving Mice
Jesse A. Smith1, Kevin Bolding2, Jiayue Tai3, Ian Davison1. 1Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.2Monell Chemical Senses center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.3Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

Cognition
Reevaluating Odor Mixtures: Evidence for Predominant Linearity
Robert Pellegrino1, Jennifer Margolis1, Carissa Evans1, Mathew Andres1, Emily Mayhew2, Alex Wiltschko3, Rick Gerkin3, Joel Mainland1, 4. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.3Osmo, New York, NY, USA.4Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA