Conference Program

Welcome! Please find the current preliminary program for AChemS 2024 listed below. Note that any aspect of this program is subject to change.

April 17 (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM): Pre-Meeting
April 17-20: AChemS Annual Meeting Program

Wed - Apr 17

Thu - Apr 18

Fri - Apr 19

Sat - Apr 20

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17

10:00 - 11:40 AM PRE-MEETING SYMPOSIUM

UNDERSTANDING ODOR CODING AND ODOR-GUIDED BEHAVIORS IN THE AGE OF TEAM SCIENCE - PART 1: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA INTEGRATION Chair/Organizer: Matt Wachowiak Calusa ABC

10:00

DETERMINISM IN ODOR RECEPTOR CHOICE David Brann. Harvard University

10:25

HOW DO CLASS I ODORANT RECEPTORS RECOGNIZE ODORANTS? Hiro Matsunami . Duke University

10:50

RESTRUCTURING OF ODOR RESPONSES ALONG ETHOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT AXES Lisa Stowers. The Scripps Research Institute

11:15

THE TANGO TOOLKIT FOR CIRCUIT TRACING AND MANIPULATION Gilad Barnea . Brown University

11:40 - 12:40 PM LUNCH ON OWN

LUNCH ON OWN Lunch On Own

12:00 - 3:30 PM MEETING

ACHEMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING (INVITE ONLY) Great Egret

12:40 - 2:20 PM PRE-MEETING SYMPOSIUM

UNDERSTANDING ODOR CODING AND ODOR-GUIDED BEHAVIORS IN THE AGE OF TEAM SCIENCE - PART 2: NATURAL BEHAVIORS AND THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM Chair/Organizer: Dima Rinberg Calusa ABC

12:40

REVEALING THE NEURAL ENCODING OF ODOR INTENSITY Beatrice Barra. New York University

1:05

OLFACTION IN DROSOPHILA THROUGH THE LENS OF NATURAL ODORS Elizabeth Hong. Caltech

1:30

NEURAL CIRCUITS FOR WORKING MEMORY AND EVIDENCE INTEGRATION DURING OLFACTORY NAVIGATION Kathy Nagel. New York University

1:55

VOLUNTARY USE OF THE VOMERONASAL SYSTEM DURING FREELY MOVING BEHAVIOR Lisa Stowers. The Scripps Research Institute

2:20 - 2:35 PM BREAK

COFFEE BREAK Calusa Foyer

2:35 - 3:50 PM PRE-MEETING SYMPOSIUM

UNDERSTANDING ODOR CODING AND ODOR-GUIDED BEHAVIORS IN THE AGE OF TEAM SCIENCE - PART 3: SMELLING IN TIME AND SPACE Chair/Organizer: Elizabeth Hong Calusa ABC

2:35

THE ORDER CODE Alex Koulakov. Cold Spring Harbor

3:00

UNTANGLING THE DETERMINANTS OF TIMING AND TUNING IN EARLY ODOR REPRESENTATIONS Matt Wachowiak. University of Utah

3:25

OLFACTORY OBJECT REPRESENTATION IN THE BRAIN Dima Rinberg. New York University

4:00 - 4:30 PM WORKSHOP

ACHEMS 2024 CODEFEST Great Egret The goal of the AChemS 2024 Codefest is for you to apply your data analysis skills, learn from others, get feedback, explore others' work, and connect with the larger AChemS community. This year's Codefest will focus on data from a new Olfaction Challenge. We will provide starter code, orient you to the available data, and provide a team of teachers as support for working in both R and Python. We welcome coders of all skill levels and from any chemosensory system!

4:30 - 5:00 PM EVENT

DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP MEET AND GREET Calusa Terrace

5:30 - 6:00 PM LECTURE

AWARDS CEREMONY Calusa EFGH

6:00 - 7:00 PM LECTURE

KEYNOTE LECTURE Calusa EFGH

6:00

PHEROMONE COMMUNICATION IN ANTS Daniel Kronauer . The Rockefeller University

7:00 - 9:00 PM EVENT

WELCOME BANQUET (TICKET REQUIRED) Waterfall Pool Deck