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 22

Thu - Apr 23

Fri - Apr 24

Sat - Apr 25

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SATURDAY, APRIL 25

7:30 - 9:00 AM BREAKFAST

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Pavilion/ Pavilion Lawn

8:00 - 10:00 AM POSTER SESSION

POSTER SESSION V (click to view) (click to close) Pavilion

DETECTION, DISCRIMIN

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RESPONSE STABILITY ACROSS STANDARD AND FORCED-CHOICE FORMATS OF THE WATERLESS EMPIRICAL TASTE TEST (WETT) Shima T. Moein1, Ryan Sharetts1, Ricahrd Doty1, 2. 1Research a Development Division, Sensonics International, Haddon Heights, NJ, USA. 2Smell a Taste Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphi, PA, USA

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INVESTIGATING THE MODULATION OF RETRONASAL SMELL AND TASTE PERCEPTION BY CARBONATION USING A NOVEL SIP GUSTOMETER (SG). Hanzhi Zheng, Tiffany Hsu, Dando Robin, Terry Acree. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN ORAL SENSITIVITY AND MEALTIME CHALLENGES IN PICKY EATERS Berenice I. Montano Rodriguez, Christopher T. Simons. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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EVIDENCE FOR MODULATION OF THE SOUR TASTE RECEPTOR OTOP1 BY COMPOUNDS ASSOCIATED WITH LICORICE AFTERTASTE sabrina Corazza, Manuel Arcangeletti, Irene Riva, Menella Valotta, Katja Blasi, Marcel Winnig, Jean-Francois Rolland. Axxam S. pA, Bresso, Milano, Italy, Italy

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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN ORAL SENSITIVITY TO SUCROSE AND DAIRY FAT Victoria Esparza1, Catherine Peyrot des Gachons1, Amy Huang 1, Nancy Rawson 1, Paul Breslin 1, 2, Linda Flammer 1, Paul Wise 1. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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IMPACT OF ORAL MICROBIOME PERTURBATION ON ORTHONASAL AND RETRONASAL OLFACTORY PERCEPTION. Alyssa M. Sutanto, Christopher T. Simons. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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INTENSITY ALTERS IDENTITY: ODOR QUALITY SHIFTS ACROSS CONCENTRATION Aurora E. Anderson1, 2, Elizabeth A. Hamel1, Xuebo Song1, Christiane Danilo1, Robert Pellegrino1, Joel D. Mainland1. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF OLFACTION IN PREGNANCY E. Leslie Cameron. Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, USA

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NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND TASK DESIGN IN CLINICAL OLFACTORY TESTING Natalia Efimova, John P. McGann. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

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DISCRIMINATION OF VIRAL AND NON-VIRAL CELLS THROUGH VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND PROFILING OF CULTURE-DERIVED HEADSPACE Samantha Hagerty1, Michelle Aono1, Adam Rivers3, Melissa Singletary1, 2. 1Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA. 2Canine Performance Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA. 3United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Gainesville, FL, USA

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SMELLING DISEASES: OLFACTORY AI FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS Ichie Ojiro1, Vivek Agarwal 2, Rory Reiser1, Dina Popova1, Idan Frumin1, Vasant Dhar2, Bruce Kimball3, Dmitry Rinberg1. 1New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA. 2New York University, New York, NY, USA. 3Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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OLFACTORY DETECTION THRESHOLDS OF MICE TO COMMONLY USED ODORANTS Vaishnavi Chinthakunta, Veronica Kelada, Ellie Williams, Adam Dewan. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

HEDONICS

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VECTOR-BASED TASTE REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOD ODOURS PREDICT APPETITIVE VALUE Putu A Khorisantono1, Apostolia Filippopoliti1, Maria G Veldhuizen2, 3, Janina Seubert1. 1Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden. 2Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey. 3Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

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ODOR CONCENTRATION SHAPES ODOR-TASTE MIXTURE PREFERENCE AND RETRONASAL DETECTION IN RATS Caitlin J. White, Timothy V. Dong, Dinna N. Ferreria, Chad L. Samuelsen. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

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ASSESSING OLFACTORY MODULATION OF VISUAL STIMULUS PROCESSING AS A FUNCTION OF TRAIT ANXIETY Mary Clare Koebel1, Nicole Cash1, Christopher Sege1, Lisa M. McTeague1, 2, Bernadette M. Cortese1. 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. 2Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA

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CULTURAL EVOLUTION IN PERFUMES SINCE 1900 Vahid Satarifard1, Fabian Baumann2, Gigi Minsky3, Laura Sisson4, Lou M. Haux5, Christophe Laudamiel6, Nicholas A. Christakis7. 1Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. 2Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 4Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. 5Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. 6DreamAir LLC, Department of Scent Engineering, New York, NY, USA. 7Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

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VALENCE-DEPENDENT MODULATION OF SNIFF VOLUME IS SUSTAINED ACROSS SNIFFS Johan N. Lundstrom1, 2, 3, Frans Norden1, Giulia Ciotti1, Irene Zanettin1, Artin Arshamian1. 1Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 2Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 3Monell Chemical Senses Center, Stockholm, Sweden

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FROM ROSES TO RUBBISH: TOWARD A STANDARDIZED CHILDREN'S LEXICON OF ODOR SOURCES Marta Rokosz1, Daniel Marek1, Tim L. Jesgarzewsky2, Daniel J?drzejczyk3, Ilona Croy2, Anna Oleszkiewicz1, 4. 1Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroc?aw, Poland. 2Department for Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany. 3Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanitie, Wroc?aw, Poland. 4Smell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinoloaryngology, Techniche Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany

METHODS AND BIG DATA

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FAIR CHEMOSENSORY DATA: UNLOCKING AI FOR FLAVOR, FOOD AND HEALTH​ Valentina Parma1, 2, Joel D. Mainland1, 3, Liaar-Dar Hwang4, Richard J. Kedziora5, Nicolas Pineau6, Richard C. Gerkin7, 8, Masha Y. Niv9. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Department of Otorhinolaryngology n Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 4Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 5Estenda Solutions, Wayne, PA, USA. 6DataInsight, Lausanne, Switzerland. 7Osmo Labs, New York, NY, USA. 8School of Life Sciences and School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. 9The Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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ACCORD-SPECIFIC IMPACT ON OBJECTIVELY MEASURED SLEEP QUALITY: A BIG-DATA, POOLED INTERVENTIONAL ANALYSIS Robert Assini1, Luke Gahan2, Elie Gottlieb2, Jack A Bikker1, Mathias Tabert1. 1RaD, International Flavors a Fragrances, Inc, Union Beach, NJ, USA. 2Sleep. AI, Carlsbad, CA, USA

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BIOLOGICALLY INFORMED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS FOR PREDICTING HUMAN SENSORY PERCEPTION OF SCENTS AND FLAVOURS Luana P. Queiroz1, 2, Icaro S. C. Bernardes2, Ana M. Ribeiro1, Bernardo M. Aguilera-Mercado3, Idelfonso B. R. Nogueira2. 1LSRE-LCM, ALiCE, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 2Chemical Engineering Department, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. 3Corporate Fragrance RaD, The Procter a Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH, USA

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DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A QUEST-BASED METHOD TO MEASURE ODOR DETECTION THRESHOLDS Lindsey Barnes1, Yasmeen Abunasrah1, Anthony Matejicka1, James Howard2, Laura Shanahan1. 1Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA. 2Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

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DOES THE NASAL CYCLE PROVIDE AN ATTENTIONAL GAIN IN OLFACTION Michal Tamir, Kobi Snitz, Noam Sobel. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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A HUMAN-NOSE-INSPIRED BIOMIMETIC ELECTRONIC NOSE Kobi Snitz1, Tali Weiss1, Arbel Arad1, Danielle Honigstein1, Aharon Weissbrod1, Nir Harel2, Noam Sobel1. 1Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 2 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

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SCALING SENSORY ANNOTATION OF ODOR MIXTURES WITH A PRIOR-GUIDED SENSORY ANNOTATION TOOL Marissa L. Kamarck1, Wesley Qian1, Richard Gerkin1, 2. 1Osmo Labs, PBC, New York, NY, USA. 2School of Life Sciences and School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

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HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGING DISTINGUISHES OLFACTORY AND RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM IN MOUSE AND HUMAN NASAL TISSUE Liam Lee1, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt2, Guillermo Tearney2, Eric Holbrook3, Brian Lin1. 1Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Boston, MA, USA. 2Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 3Department of Otolaryngology n Head a Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA

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ODOR AGING INDUCED BY ATMOSPHERIC OXIDATION IN A FLOW-TUBE REACTOR Eunyeong Jin, Joseph Byron, Alexandra Gutmann, Jonathan Williams. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

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HUB4SMELL: UNIFYING FRAGMENTED OLFACTORY DATA TO UNLOCK CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INSIGHTS Ryann Kolb1, R. J. Kedziora2, Patricia L. Schnarre3, Pamela H. Dalton1, Danielle R. Reed1, Valentina Parma1, 4. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Estenda Solutions Inc, Wayne, PA, USA. 3Ahersla Health, Long Beach, NJ, USA. 4Department of Otorhinolaryngology n Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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ODOR-INDUCED TASTE ENHANCEMENT IN HEALTHY CHILDREN AND ADULTS Claudia Asensio, Yanina Pepino. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

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QUANTIFYING A NOVEL REBAUDIOSIDE M–BRAZZEIN SWEETNESS SYNERGY USING ISOBOLE METHODS Margaux Mora, Adams Berzins, LaKendra Shepard, Carolina Polo, Matthew Park, Curtis Luckett. Ingredion Incorporated, Westchester, IL, USA

TASTE DISORDER

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TRENDS IN TASTE AND SMELL ALTERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS Howard J. Hoffman1, Diana E. Fisher2, Susan E. Coldwell3, Chuan-Ming Li1, Shristi Rawal4, John E. Hayes5, Valerie B. Duffy6. 1Epidemiology, Statistics, and Population Sciences, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) , Bethesda, MD, USA. 2Office of Vision Health and Population Sciences, National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Heralth (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA. 3Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. 4Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Heath Professions, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA. 5Sensory Evaluation Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. 6Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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PERIPHERAL GUSTATORY DEGENERATION CONTRIBUTES TO TASTE DYSFUNCTION IN MOUSE MODELS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE Tao Tang, Brian Pierchala. Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

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CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE CHEMOTHERAPY PRODUCES A TRANSIENT LOSS OF TASTE BUD INNERVATION IN MICE. Ryan M Wood, Emily Holder, Ireland Little, Victoria Valtr, Erin L Vasquez, Krystal A Goyins, Eduardo G Kuri, Kevin Connelly, Saima Humayun, Lindsey Macpherson. Univeristy of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

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PERSISTENT SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2 INFECTION AND TASTE NERVE DEGENERATION DRIVEN BY IMPAIRED INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3 SIGNALING Kang-Hoon Kim1, Emma Larsson1, Janna Oh1, Heaven Branch1, Peihua Jiang1, Danielle R. Reed1, Richard Bowen2, Hong Wang1. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

TASTE PREFERENCE

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GENETIC VARIATION IN SWEET LIKING IS AMPLIFIED BY REAL-WORLD FOOD CONTEXTS May M. Cheung1, Janel Clovis1, Danielle R. Reed2, Cailu Lin2, Amy Huang2, Liang-Dar Hwang3. 1City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA. 2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

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REDUCED SUGAR DIETS DO NOT AFFECT PERCEIVED SWEETNESS OR MOST LIKED SUGAR CONCENTRATION IN MODEL FOODS AND BEVERAGES Paul M Wise, Gary K Beauchamp. Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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COMPARING VIDEO-BASED METHODS FOR SPOUT LICK DETECTION Georgia Davis, Mia Fox, John Boughter, Max Fletcher. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

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TASTE EXPERIENCE DURING A POSTNATAL SENSITIVE WINDOW MODIFIES PREFERENCE AND RESPONSE TO NOVELTY Michelle Layana, Hillary C Schiff. Division of Biosciences, College of Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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WITHIN-COMPOUND ASSOCIATIONS CAUSE RETROSPECTIVE REVALUATION OF TASTE VALUE IN RATS Griffin J. M. McFarland, Jian-You Lin, Donald B. Katz. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

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DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION OF NEURONS PRODUCING GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE IN MOUSE GUSTATORY CORTEX Diana Guarino1, 2, Lindsey Czarnecki2, John Chen1, 2, Aylar Berenji Kalkhoran1, 2, Olivia Swanson1, 2, Siddarth Swaminathan1, Arianna Maffei1, 2, Alfredo Fontanini1, 2. 1Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. 2Department of Neurobiology a Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

10:15 - 12:15 PM ORAL ABSTRACTS

ORAL ABSTRACTS - OLFACTION Chair/Organizer: Adam Dewan Sawyer Key Ballroom

10:15

AVIAN ODORANT RECEPTORS: FUNCTIONAL PROFILING AND EVIDENCE OF GENE CONVERSION-MEDIATED EVOLUTION Wanting Sun, Robert Driver, Hiroaki Matsunami. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

10:30

INTEGRATION OF GLOMERULAR ACTIVITY ASSEMBLES THE COMPONENTS OF ODOR SCENES Kristyn Lizbinski, Gizem Sancer, Kay Ellison, Helen Mao, Madeline Albanese, James Jeanne. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

10:45

SNIFFING AS A KEY MODULATOR OF THALAMIC SALIENCE PROCESSING IN MICE Janardhan P Bhattarai1, Carolyn Mann1, Geronimo Velazquez-Hernandez1, Yingqi Wang1, Brittany C Chapman1, Sravana Nuti1, Edgar Arturo Diaz Hernandez1, Juee Naik1, Tammi Coleman1, Abby Lieberman1, Marc V Fuccillo1, Daniel W Wesson2, Steven A Thomas3, Wenqin Luo1, Timothy A Machado1, Minghong Ma1. 1Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Center for Smell and Taste, Center for Addiction Research and Education University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA. 3Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

11:00

ALZHEIMER'S PATHOBIOLOGY DETECTION PRIOR TO SYMPTOM ONSET VIA OLFACTORY BIOPSY ANALYSIS Vincent M D'Anniballe1, Bradley J Goldstein2. 1Duke Medical Scientist Training Program, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. 2Department of Head and Neck Surgery a Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

11:15

A DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY OF OLFACTORY/SNIFF TRAINING WITH A RANDOMIZED BLANK CONTROL GROUP Richard Doty1, Crystal Wylie1, 3, Ronald Devere2, Vince Groso3, Shima Moein3, Marco Fornazieri4. 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, NJ, USA. 2Taste and Smell Disorders Clinic, Austin, TX, USA. 3Sensonics International, Haddon Heights, NJ, USA. 4Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil

11:30

SLOW-ACTING PERIPHERAL INHIBITION UNDERLIES THE BEHAVIORAL DOMINANCE OF AVERSIVE ACIDIC ODORS Kay J. Ellison, Isaiah K. Asbed, James M. Jeanne. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

11:45

POSITION-SPECIFIC OLFACTORY SIGNATURE AMONG FORMER PROFESSIONAL AMERICAN-STYLEFOOTBALL PLAYERS Benoit Jobin1, 2, Colin Magdamo1, 2, Rachel Grashow3, 4, Michael Leung3, 4, Ona Wu1, 2, 5, Jacob Dodelson1, 2, 5, Grant Iverson1, 2, 6, Marc Weisskopf3, 4, Ross Zafonte1, 2, 6, Aaron Baggish1, Mark Albers1, 2. 1Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 3Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. 4The Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 5Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA. 6Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA

12:00

A LOW-DIMENSIONAL CODE FOR PERCEPTUAL SIMILARITY IN OLFACTION Walter Bast1, Cina Aghamohammadi2, Priyanka Gupta1, Tatiana Engel2, Florin Albeanu1. 1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. 2Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA

ORAL ABSTRACTS - TASTE Chair/Organizer: Chad Samuelsen Bird Key Ballroom

10:15

THE NEURAL CIRCUITRY AND CODING OF INTEROCEPTION Catherine Gallori1, 2, Tianxiao Huang1, Shiqi Wang1, Yandan Wang2, Verina Leung1, Tianbo Qi1, Alex Hiroto1, Bohan Lin1, Li Ye1, Stephen Liberles2, Chen Ran1. 1The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA. 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

10:30

SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOMICS OF TONGUE-INNERVATING TRIGEMINAL NEURONS REVEALS DISTINCT POPULATIONS OF PRURICEPTORS AND MECHANONOCICEPTORS Afshin Faridiesfanjani1, Katherine Chacon1, Mark Gradwell2, Michael Kissner3, Joriene De Nooij4, Yalda Moayedi1. 1Pain Research Center, Department of Molecular Pathobiology, New York University-College of Dentistry, New York, NY, New York, NY, USA. 2Cell Biology and Neuroscience Department, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, New Jersey, NJ, USA. 3Columbia Stem Cell initiative, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. 4Department of Neurology Columbia University Medical Center, BB305 650 west 168th Street New York, NY 10032, New York, NY, USA

10:45

MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF SUCROSE LICKING BEHAVIOR IN RATS CHRONICALLY TREATED WITH THE GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-1 RECEPTOR AGONIST SEMAGLUTIDE. A. Valentina Nisi1, Ginger D. Blonde1, Carolina R. Cawthon2, Emily Gallagher1, Galina Knysh1, Joshua Hackett1, Jacob Scarbrough1, Alan C. Spector1. 1Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 2Department of Nutrition, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

11:00

JUVENILE EXPOSURE TO A BITTER DIET INCREASES ACCEPTANCE OF QUININE IN ADULTHOOD Verenice Ascencio Gutierrez1, Jyothi Vasavan1, Kamila D Nixon1, Ann-Marie Torregrossa1, 2. 1Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. 2Center for Ingestive Behavior Research, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

11:15

TISSUE RESIDENT CD8+ T CELL-MEDIATED INFLAMMATION DRIVES BITTER SENSITIVITY Pavel Nesmiyanov, Flavia Saavedra, J. Michael Stolley. Cleveland Clinic Research, nDepartment of Inflammation a Immunity, Cleveland, OH, USA

11:30

PHASIC LOCUS COERULEUS ACTIVATION TRANSFORMS CORTICAL TASTE REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS DISTINCT STIMULUS DIMENSIONS Will Fan, Natale R. Sciolino. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

11:45

DON TUCKER FINALIST: PERIPHERAL TASTE FUNCTION IS SUBJECT TO COMPLEX MODULATION BY NEUROPEPTIDE Y FAMILY PEPTIDES Satya Iyer, Ritika Gangakhedkar, Irene Bhuiyan, Jean-Pierre R. Montmayeur, Cedrick D. Dotson. Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

12:00

EFFECTS OF THERMAL CONDITIONING ON THERMAL-TASTE PREFERENCES IN MICE Kyle T. Zumpano, Christian H. Lemon. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

12:15 - 1:30 PM LUNCH ON OWN

LUNCH ON OWN Lunch On Own

1:00 - 2:00 PM WORKSHOP

JOURNAL CLUB: “HOW IDEAS TRAVEL: FROM CLASSIC GUSTATORY CORTEX MAPPING TO MODERN FLAVOR COMPUTATIONS. ” Bird Key Ballroom

1:30

INTRODUCTION & HISTORICAL CONTEXT Chris Lemon. University of Oklahoma

1:45

CLASSIC PAPER – 1986 KOSAR ET AL, BRAIN RES. GUSTATORY CORTEX IN THE RAT. I. PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND CYTOARCHITECTURE - PUBMED Caitlin White. University of Louisville

2:00

CURRENT PAPER – DON KATZ – 2025 ALLAR ET AL, CURRENT BIOLOGY - GUSTATORY CORTEX NEURONS PERFORM RELIABILITY-DEPENDENT INTEGRATION OF MULTISENSORY FLAVOR INPUTS: CURRENT BIOLOGY (CONSIDERING QUESTIONS SUCH AS: HOW DO IDEAS GET STARTED? HOW DOES PAST INFLUENCE THE PRESENT/FUTURE?) Donald Katz. Brandeis University

2:15

DISCUSSION.

1:30 - 3:30 PM WORKSHOP

SMELL SAFARI: FIELD-BASED TOOLS FOR MAPPING AND COMMUNICATING HUMAN SMELLSCAPES Chair/Organizer: Robert Pellegrino and Emily Mayhew Sawyer Key Ballroom To link odor exposure to human well-being (Bratman et al. 2024), track landscape-scale change (e. g, pollution effects; Quercia et al. 2015), and anchor chemosensory neuroscience in real-world odor statistics (Wachowiak et al. 2025), researchers must move beyond the laboratory and conduct controlled field studies. The proposed workshop will introduce and evaluate new methodologies for capturing, quantifying, and communicating the olfactory dimension of outdoor environments, an emerging frontier for chemosensory science. Three complementary talks will move from personal odor logging, to art-based engagement, to quantitative odor measurement, and finally to an on-site “Smell Safari” around the new AChemS venue in St. Pete, Florida. Collectively, the workshop will (i) highlight mobile and crowd-sourced approaches that scale olfactory research beyond the laboratory, (ii) demonstrate how trans-disciplinary collaborations with the arts and environmental humanities can broaden public awareness of smell, and (iii) provide attendees with an overview of sensory and psychophysical methods used in the laboratory and how they can be translated to field protocols to build georeferenced “smellscape” datasets. Lastly, the workshop will end with an interactive smell walk activity to explore and tag odors in the new St. Pete conference environment using the tools and techniques discussed. By centering smell in real-world contexts, the workshop will advance discussion on how human olfaction shapes well-being while showcasing new approaches to collecting data and capturing naturalistic smellscapes. It will also be fun! As the workshop is designed to engage trainees through both junior-investigator presentations and hands-on data collection during the concluding indoor / outdoor exercise.

1:30

SMELLIT MOBILE APP AND ODOR AWARENESS Barr Herrnstadt. Weizmann Institute of Science

1:55

USING ART AND GEOGRAPHY TO MAP OLFACTORY PUBLIC SPACES Jennifer Kitson. Rowan University

2:20

COLLECTING RELIABLE DATA TO MAP ODOR SPACES Emily Mayhew. Michigan State University

2:45

GUIDED SMELL SAFARI TO QUANTIFY A NEW ACHEMS SMELLSCAPE Emily Mayhew1, Robert Pellegrino2. 1Michigan State University . 2Monell Chemical Senses Center

3:30 - 3:45 PM BREAK

COFFEE BREAK GRAND PALM COLONNADE

3:45 - 5:45 PM SYMPOSIUM

CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM:OLFACTION IMPAIRMENT IN OLDER ADULTS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH HEALTH BEYOND COVID-19 AND NEURODEGENERATION Chair/Organizer: Honglei Chen and Jayant Pinto Bird Key Ballroom Sponsored in part By: Sensonics

3:45

OLFACTION IMPAIRMENT IN OLDER ADULTS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH HEALTH BEYOND COVID-19 AND NEURODEGENERATION Honglei Chen. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

3:55

OLFACTION IMPAIRMENT IN OLDER ADULTS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH HEALTH BEYOND COVID-19 AND NEURODEGENERATION Honglei Chen1, Nicholas R Rowan2, Yaquan Yu1, Teresa Tian3, Jayant Pinto4. 1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Baltimore, MD, USA. 3National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA. 4University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

4:25

POOR OLFACTION AND RISKS OF PNEUMONIA HOSPITALIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN OLDER ADULTS: EVIDENCE FROM TWO COMMUNITY-BASED COHORTS Yaqun Yuan1, Keran Chamberlin1, Zhehui Luo1, Chenxi Li1, Jayant M. Pinto2, Eleanor M. Simonsick3, Anna Kucharska-Newton4, Srishti Shrestha5, Honglei Chen1. 1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 2Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA. 3Translational Gerontology Branch, Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. 4Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 5The Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

4:45

OMICS PROFILES OF OLFACTION IN AGING AND DISEASES Qu Tian, Luigi Ferrucci. National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA

5:15

OLFACTION AND THE HEALTH OF OLDER ADULTS: KNOWLEDGE GAPS, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIES Jayant M. Pinto1, Honglei Chen2, Nicholas Rowan3, Qu Tian4, Yaqun Yuan2. 1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 3Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 4National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA

GENES AND SENSES: GENETIC REGULATION OF CHEMOSENSATION Chair/Organizer: Kevin Monahan and Hojoon Lee Sawyer Key Ballroom

3:45

GENES AND SENSES: GENETIC REGULATION OF CHEMOSENSATION Kevin Monahan1, Hojoon Lee2. 1Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. 2Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

3:55

THE MANY WAYS TO BE BITTER Thirada Boonrawd, Syed Adnan Uddin, Hojoon Lee. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

4:25

ACTIVITY DEPENDENT REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION AND CHROMATIN STRUCTURE IN MOUSE OLFACTORY SENSORY NEURONS Joshua Danoff, Kevin Monahan. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

4:45

METABOLIC MODULATION OF TASTE PROCESSING IN THE BRAINSTEM Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Deepthi Vasuki, Nilay Yapici. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

5:15

CHEMOSENSORY NEUROMODULATION BY EXTRACELLULAR RNA TRANSFER Hayeon Sung1, Sven Barvoetz2, Jason Shepherd2, Sophie Caron2, Monica Dus1. 1The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

7:30 - 9:30 PM SYMPOSIUM

PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM:ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS, THE SENSES, AND HEALTH: EXPLORING THE EVIDENCE Chair/Organizer: Yanina Pepino Bird Key Ballroom

7:30

WHY DO WE EAT WHAT WE EAT?: BRAIN AND METABOLIC RESPONSES TO PROCESSED FOODS Alexandra DiFeliceantonio. Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, USA

8:00

MISSPECIFYING MECHANISMS MISLEADS POLICY AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS: IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PROCESSING John E Hayes1, 2. 1Sensory Evaluation Center, University Park, PA, USA. 2Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

8:30

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL, AND MECHANISTIC DATA ON THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS Richard Mattes. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

9:00

DOPAMINE SIGNALING IN HUMANS: INFLUENCE OF DIETARY STIMULUS, METABOLIC STATE AND ADIPOSITY Valerie Darcey. Section on Nutritional and Metabolic Neuroimaging Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

9:30 - 12:00 AM EVENT

DANCE PARTY Sawyer Key Ballroom