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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



Friday, April 19th

7:30 - 9:00 AM
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Estero Foyer
8:00 - 10:00 AM
POSTER SESSION III
Estero Ballroom
9:00 - 10:00 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Estero Foyer
10:00 - 12:00 PM
CODING PRINCIPLES IN THE OLFACTORY AND GUSTATORY CORTEX
Chair/Organizer: Kevin Franks
Calusa ABC

EXPLORING CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS IN THE DEVELOPING OLFACTORY SYSTEM
Chair/Organizer: Paolo Forni, Ron Yu
Calusa EFGH
12:00 - 1:00 PM
BUSINESS MEETING
Calusa EFGH
1:00 - 4:30 PM
FREE TIME
Lunch On Own
4:30 - 6:00 PM
DEMONSTRATIONS OF TEST PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATING HUMAN SMELL AND TASTE FUNCTION
Chair/Organizer: Thomas Hummel and Richard Doty
Great Egret

This workshop will provide participants with first-hand experience in employing a wide range of procedures for assessing human smell and taste function. A brief discussion of the strengths and limitations of each approach to testing will be provided.


THE GREAT DEBATE: THE ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN OLFACTION
Chair/Organizer: Bob Datta
Calusa ABC

Recent advances in statistical learning, machine intelligence, chemoinformatics and psychophysics appear to be bringing us closer to a holy grail of chemical biology: to be able to predict what a molecule will smell like based upon its structure alone. But, given the limits of the technologies and data, how close are we to actually reaching this elusive goal? Are these new computational approaches the key to new insights into the biology of smell, or a shiny distraction from the hard experiments necessary to understand how the brain transforms chemistry into perception? What are the right and wrong questions to ask using these methods? And given the deep role played by personal experience in smell, will it ever be possible to make accurate predictions in individuals? Here we assemble a diverse panel of experts to offer their differing perspectives on the promise and perils of AI in the study of smell. Join us as these experts engage in a vigorous open debate to render clear where these approaches stand now, and what progress we can reasonably expect in the future.

Participants:
Bob Datta (Harvard University)
Alex Wiltschko (Osmo)
Noam Sobel (Weitzmann Institute)
Stuart Firestein (Columbia University)
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Indiana University)
Pablo Meyer (IBM)
Barry Smith (University of London)
Joel Mainland (Monell Chemical Senses Center)


6:00 - 7:00 PM
DINNER ON OWN
Dinner On Own
7:00 - 9:00 PM
POLAK AWARDS LECTURES
Calusa EFGH

The Polak Foundation Awards are 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.

9:00 - 11:00 PM
POSTER SESSION IV
Estero Ballroom