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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 23      Thu - Apr 24      Fri - Apr 25      Sat - Apr 26   

THURSDAY, APRIL 24

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

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
Estero Ballroom

10:00 - 12:00 PM
SYMPOSIUM
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


10:05

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


10:28

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


10:46

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


11:09

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


11:32

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


10:00

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


10:28

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


10:51

PREDICTING HUMAN OLFACTORY PERCEPTION FROM STIMULUS CHEMISTRY
Emily J Mayhew. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA


11:14

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


11:32

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

12:30 - 2:00 PM
WORKSHOP
THE BARRY DAVIS FUNDING WORKSHOP FOR NEW INVESTIGATORS
Calusa ABC

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


2:00

EMERGING THERAPEUTICS FOR OLFACTORY DYSFUNCTION
Kai Zhao. Department of Otolaryngology, HeadaNeck Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA


2:05

INFLAMMATION AND OLFACTION: WHAT'S THE LINK?
Justin Turner. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA


2:28

EMERGING THERAPIES FOR OLFACTORY DYSFUNCTION: FROM PRECLINICAL STUDIES TO RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
Carol Yan. University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA


2:51

THE FUTURE OF TREATING SMELL LOSS
Zara M. Patel. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA


3:14

THE USE OF NEUROMODULATORS TO IMPROVE PAROSMIA AFTER COVID-19 INFECTION
Do Yeon Cho. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA


3:37

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


2:00

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


2:05

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


2:28

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


2:51

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


3:09

HOW SLEEP PATTERNS IMPACT CHEMOSENSORY PROCESSING AND EATING BEHAVIORS
Surabhi Bhutani. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA


3:32

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
Estero Ballroom

6:00 - 7:00 PM
EVENT
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Calusa Foyer

7:00 - 8:20 PM
LECTURE
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.



7:00

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


7:20

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


7:40

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


8:00

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