Conference Program

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

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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