Conference Program

Welcome! Please find the current preliminary program for AChemS 2025 listed below. Note that any aspect of this program is subject to change.

April 23 (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM): Pre-Meeting
April 23-26: AChemS Annual Meeting Program

Wed - Apr 23

Thu - Apr 24

Fri - Apr 25

Sat - Apr 26

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26

7:30 - 9:00 AM BREAKFAST

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Estero Foyer

8:00 - 10:00 AM POSTER SESSION

POSTER SESSION V (click to view) (click to close) Estero Ballroom

DISCRIMINATION

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DETECTION THRESHOLDS TO GLUCOSE, BUT NOT OTHER SWEETENERS, DIFFER BETWEEN FASTED AND FED STATES Alexa J Pullicin1, 2, Galen Moll2, Juyun Lim1, 2. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Oregon State Univerrsity, Corvallis, OR, USA

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BITTER BATTLES: THE TALE OF BITTER PERCEPTION AND ITS NEURONAL UNDERPINNING Oren Mazon1, Dan Ben-Ezra1, Ron Gerbi1, Anan Moran1, 2. 1Department of Neurobiology, School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry a Biophysics The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv, Israel

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A NOVEL APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING ANTICIPATORY CORTICAL RESPONSES TO TASTE ASSOCIATED CUES Emma A Barash, Usha Berger, Donald B Katz. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

306

ODOR DISCRIMINATION IN DETECTION CANINE TRAINING: ANALYZING THE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND PROFILE OF VIRUS AND HEAT-STRESSED CELL CULTURE SAMPLES Samantha Hagerty1, Michelle Aono1, Adam Rivers3, Melissa Singletary2. 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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INVESTIGATION OF THE PHARMACODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF TAS1R2/TAS1R3(T1R2/R3) LIGANDS WITH DISTINCT BINDING SITES USING RAPID THROUGHPUT TASTE DISCRIMINATION WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS Nicole McKeeby, Kaday Sesay, Kyle Palmer. Opertech Bio, Inc, Philadelphia, PA, USA

310

SEX DIFFERENCES IN RATS' OLFACTORY BEHAVIOR DEPEND ON BEHAVIORAL CONTEXT Leslie M. Kay1, 2, Sam Detwiler2, Nasya Becton3, Kruthika V. Maheshwar4, Nadia Turki4, Emma Bell3, Brian J. Prendergast1, 2. 1Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 3The College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 4Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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TASTE PERCEPTION OF SUGAR-FREE ISOMALTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES Shashwat Damani1, 2, Michael H. Penner2, Juyun Lim1, 2. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

NEURAL PATHWAYS

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NOXIOUS SPINAL STIMULATION ACTIVATES TASTE NEURONS IN THE PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS Jinrong Li, Christian Lemon. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

316

SEROTONERGIC SEM-1 NEURONS MODULATE FEEDING BEHAVIOR IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER Shagun Sabharwal, Zepeng Yao. University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL, USA

318

POSTSYNAPTIC TARGETS OF CENTRAL AMYGDALA AXON TERMINALS IN THE NUCLEUS OF SOLITARY TRACT. Abigail R. Muccilli, Jane J. Bartonjo, Robert F. Lundy. University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA

320

LARGELY SEPARATE POPULATIONS OF SOMATOSTATIN EXPRESSING CELLS IN THE CENTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE AMYGDALA PROJECT TO THE NUCLEUS OF SOLITARY TRACT, PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS, AND BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS. Abigail R. Muccilli, Robert F. Lundy. University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA

322

PERIPHERAL GUSTATORY NEURONS PRIMARILY FUNCTION TO CATEGORIZE STIMULI INTO THREE GROUPS Tao Huang, Robin Krimm. University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA

324

DOES SOUR STIMULATION INHIBIT RESPONSES TO SWEET STIMULI IN THE MOUSE GENICULATE GANGLION? Isabella R. Fleites1, Gennady Dvoryanchikov1, Yuryanni A. Rodriguez1, Nirupa Chaudhari1, 2, Stephen D. Roper1, 2. 1Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. 2Dept. of Otolaryngology Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

326

GRP SIGNALING IN BLA-GRPR NEURONS REGULATES FEEDING PATTERNS BY MODULATING TASTE PALATABILITY Aylar Berenji Kalkhoran, Alfredo Fontanini, Arianna Maffei. Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

328

FOSTRAPPING NEURAL NETWORKS DRIVEN BY ODOR STIMULATION Saptarsi Mitra2, Debra Ann Fadool1, 2, 3. 1Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 2Program In Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 3Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

330

REGULATION OF BREATHING AND SNIFFING BY THE LOCUS COERULEUS IN MICE Yingqi Wang1, Brittany Chapman2, Sravana Nuti1, Steven A. Thomas1, Minghong Ma1, Janardhan P. Bhattarai1. 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Cypris, Philadelphia, PA, USA

332

NAVIGATING THE WHERE AND WHAT? Δ-PROTOCADHERINS ARE CRITICAL FOR VOMERONASAL NEURON TARGETING IN THE ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB Nikki Dolphin, Paolo E. Forni. Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Neuroscience Research, The RNA Institute, Albany, NY

334

ODOR STIMULATION ENHANCES HYPOTHALAMIC C-FOS EXPRESSION IN KV1. 3 -/- MICE Martina Compagno1, Saptarsi Mitra2, Debra Ann Fadool1, 2, 3. 1Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 2Department of Biology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 3Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

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REPRESENTATION OF TASTE-RELATED NEURAL ACTIVITY IN THE MOUSE MEDIODORSAL THALAMUS Katherine Odegaard1, Cecilia Bouaichi1, Greg Owanga2, Roberto Vincis3. 1Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 2Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 3Department of Biological Sciences, Program in Neuroscience, and Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

338

DISTINCT DYNAMICS OF CHOLINERGIC AND GABAERGIC SIGNALING FROM THE BASAL FOREBRAIN TO THE OLFACTORY BULB DURING ODOR-GUIDED TASKS. Kirstyn J. Grams, Matt Wachowiak. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

340

THE COMBINATION OF GLUCOSE AND SACCHARIN INDUCES HIGHER LEVELS OF LICKING AND NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS NEURAL ACTIVITY IN MICE COMPARED TO EITHER STIMULUS ALONE Emily C. Hanselman1, Elif Ece Akgun1, Misgana Y. Ghidewon2, 3, M. Mastrolia1, Shloak S. Bapat1, Amber L. Alhadeff2, 3, Nicholas T. Bello1, Paul A. S. Breslin1, 2. 1Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

342

DOPAMINOCEPTIVE CIRCUITRY BETWEEN THE VENTRAL STRIATUM AND BRAIN REGIONS IMPLICATED IN SENSORY-GUIDED BEHAVIOR Sophia R. Iaconis, Sarah E. Sniffen, Daniel W. Wesson. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Florida Chemical Senses Institute, Center for Addiction Research and Education, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA

TASTE TRANSDUCTION

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TAS2R38 PAV/PAV HOMOZYGOTES DO NOT FIND ANTIDESMA BUNIUS BERRIES BITTER TASTING, WHEREAS OTHER TAS2R38 HAPLOTYPES CAN. Caroline Payton Harmon1, Christopher D Tharp2, Anilet Tharp2, Suzanne M Alarcon2, 3, Danielle R Reed2, Paul AS Breslin1, 2. 1Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA

346

NON-CANONICAL DETECTION OF GLUCOSE AND FRUCTOSE IN GUSTATORY AFFERENT NEURONS Yuryanni A. Rodriguez1, Elizabeth Pereira1, Stephen D. Roper1, 2, Nirupa Chaudhari1, 2. 1Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Miami, FL, USA. 2Dept. of Otolaryngology, Miami, FL, USA

348

SWEETNESS PERCEPTION AND TAS1R2 GENE EXPRESSION: INSIGHTS FROM SUCROSE, ACESULFAME K, AND REBAUDIOSIDE A. Sasi Tansaraviput, Alissa A. Nolden. Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

350

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GLUTATHIONE AND UMAMI TASTE RECEPTOR TAS1R1/TAS1R3 Clemence Cornut1, 2, Christine Belloir1, Maxence Lalis3, Antoine Thomas2, Rudy Menin2, Jeremie Topin3, Loic Briand1, 4. 1Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l'Alimentation, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Universite de Bourgogne, F-21000, Dijon, France. 2Biospringer By Lesaffre, F-94700, Maisons-Alfort, France. 3Institut de Chimie de Nice, Universite Cote drAzur, UMR 7272 CNRS, 06108, Nice, France

352

THE ROLE OF CARBONIC ANHYDRASE VI (CA6) IN BITTER TASTE PERCEPTION Kamila D. Nixon1, Verenice Ascencio Gutierrez1, Samantha L. Brooker1, Emily Demieri1, Fabrice Neiers2, Jeanne Chaloyard2, Ann-Marie Torregrossa1, 3. 1Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. 2Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. 3Center for Ingestive Behavior Research, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

OLFACTORY CODING

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VARIABILITY OF OLFACTORY CODING IN VENTRAL CA1 REGION OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS Anna C. Kolstad1, 2, Karol P. Szymula1, 2, Krishnan Padmanabhan1, 3, 4. 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. 2Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA. 3Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA. 4Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

356

LOCOMOTION MODULATION OF NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ODORS IN THE RODENT MAIN OLFACTORY BULB Karol P. Szymula1, 3, Anna Kolstad1, 3, Krishnan Padmanabhan2, 4. 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Hajim School of Engineering a Applied Sciences, Rochester, NY, USA. 2Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine a Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA. 3MSTP Training Program, University of Rochester School of Medicine a Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA. 4Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

358

UTILIZING OLFACTORY RECEPTOR-DEFINED GLOMERULI TO INVESTIGATE THE ORGANIZATION OF INHIBITION IN THE MAMMALIAN OLFACTORY BULB. Madison A. Herrboldt, Matt Wachowiak. Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake Cty, UT, USA

360

THE NEURAL SIGNATURE OF PERCEIVED ODOR INTENSITY Beatrice Barra1, Robert Pellegrino2, Ian Chapman2, Andrew Sheriff3, Max Seppo4, Jacqueline Zhao1, Aiden Streleckis2, David Brann6, Sandeep R. Datta6, Kevin M. Franks5, Alexander Fleischmann4, Alexei Koulakov7, Kevin Bolding2, Christina Zelano3, Dmitry Rinberg1, Joel D. Mainland2, 8. 1Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 4Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. 5Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC, USA. 6Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 7Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. 8Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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PREDICTING OLFACTORY MIXTURE SIMILARITY PERCEPTION THROUGH A COMMUNITY EFFORT Vahid Satarifard2, Yikun Han3, Matej Hladis5, Pedro Illidio4, Maxence Lalis5, Aharon Ravia6, Laura Sisson7, Gaia Andreotti8, Jake Albrecht8, Nicholas Christakis2, Sebastien Fiorucci5, Ambuj Tewari3, Celine Vens4, Joel Mainland9, Pablo Meyer1. 1IBM, yorktown heights, NY, USA. 2Yale, new haven, CT, USA. 3university of michigan, ann arbor, MI, USA. 4Leuven university, Leuven, Belgium. 5Universite Cote d'Azur, Nice, France. 6Cornell Tech, NEW YORK, NY, USA. 7Talent. com, NEW YORK, NY, USA. 8sage bionetworks, seattle, WA, USA. 9monell, philadelphia, PA, USA

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1, 1, 6-TRIMETHYL-1, 2-DIHYDROXNAPTHALENE (TDN) IS A COMMON ODOR DEFECT OF RIESLING WINE (PETROL) THAT SCREAMS “RIESLING” AT SUBTHRESHOLD LEVELS. Leanne Y LI, Hanfei Liu, Yao Jiang, Milan Poland, Leto Solla, Terry Acree. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

366

ESTIMATING PERCEIVED ODOR INTENSITY IN MICE Jacqueline Zhao1, Beatrice Barra1, Aiden Streleckis2, Robert Pellegrino2, Joel D. Mainland2, 3, Dmitry Rinberg1. 1Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

368

ORDER CODE IN THE OLFACTORY BULB Khristina Samoilova1, Joshua Harvey2, Hirofumi Nakayama2, Dmitry Rinberg2, Alexei Koulakov1. 1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. 2Neuroscience Institute, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

370

DREAM OLFACTION CHALLENGE III: PREDICTION ODOR QUALITY PERCEPTION OF MIXTURES Xuebo Song1, Robert Pellegrino1, Elizabeth Hamel1, Britney Nguyen11, Jennifer Margolis1, Matthew Andres1, Susheel Varma2, Emily Mayhew 1, 3, Pablo Meyer4, Joel D. Mainland1, 5. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA, USA. 3Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 4IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. 5Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

372

ASSESSING THE CHEMOSENSORY TUNING OF MOUSE ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB MITRAL CELLS ACROSS SEXES, STIMULUS CONCENTRATIONS, AND CELLULAR COMPARTMENTS Kevin Y. Gonzalez-Velandia, Julian Meeks. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

374

THE NATURAL STATISTICS OF HUMAN OLFACTORY EXPERIENCE: A MULTI-NATIONAL PROJECT Barr Hernstadt1, Noam Sobel1, Danielle Honigstein1, Johan Lundstrom2, Danica Kragic3, Jonathan Williams4. 1Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 2Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 3KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. 4Max Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany

376

HANVONVS: A MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE PREDICTION OF OLFACTORY RECEPTOR-ODORANT INTERACTIONS Jiahui Sun1, Weihong Liu1, Junhong He1, Yu Zheng1, Longji Zhang2, Mengxing Ren2, Fei Peng2, Hanyi Zhuang1, Yingjian Liu1, 2. 1Intelligent Perception Lab, Hanwang Technology Co, Ltd, Beijing, China. 2AI Research and Development Department, Hanwang Technology Co, Ltd, Beijing, China

378

DIFF-SENSE: A DEEP LEARNING-BASED DIFFUSION MODEL FOR PREDICTING OLFACTORY RECEPTOR-ODORANT INTERACTIONS THROUGH MULTILEVEL FEATURE FUSION Junhong He1, Weihong Liu1, Jiahui Sun1, Fei Wang1, Longji Zhang2, Mengxing Ren2, Fei Peng2, Hanyi Zhuang1, Yingjian Liu1, 2. 1Intelligent Perception Lab, Hanwang Technology Co, Ltd, Beijing, China. 2AI Research and Development Department, Hanwang Technology Co, Ltd, Beijing, China

380

OLFACTORY AVERSIVE CONDITIONING AND DETECTION OF TARGET ODORS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER Lautaro Duarte1, Martin Klappenbach1, 2, Nicolas Pirez1, 2, Fernando Locatelli1, 2. 1Instituto de Fisiologia, Biologia Molecular y Neurociencias, UBA, CABA, Argentina. 2Departamento de Fisiologia, Biologia Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CABA, Argentina

382

AN OVERVIEW OF HUMAN ODORANT RECEPTORS AND THEIR IDENTIFIED AGONISTS Maxence Lalis1, Matej Hladis1, Loic Briand2, Sebastien Fiorucci1, Jeremie Topin1. 1Institut de Chimie de Nice, Universite Cote drAzur, UMR 7272 CNRS, Nice, France. 2Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l'Alimentation, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

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NEURAL RESPONSES IN THE ANTERIOR PIRIFORM CORTEX OF FREELY MOVING MICE TO NON-SOCIAL AND SOCIAL ODORS Ryan C. Scauzillo, Max L. Fletcher. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

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CONTEXT DEPENDENT ODOR PROCESSING IN THE HUMAN BRAIN Qiaohan Yang, Naelly Arriaga, Vivek Sagar, Guangyu Zhou, Andrew Sheriff, Gregory Lane, Nathan Anderson, Rodrigo M. Braga, Christina Zelano. Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

10:00 - 12:00 PM SYMPOSIUM

IN VIVO VISUALIZATION OF THE HUMAN OLFACTORY SYSTEM Chair/Organizer: Eric Holbrook Calusa EFGH

10:00

ADVANCING TECHNIQUES TOWARD IN VIVO VISUALIZATION OF THE HUMAN OLFACTORY SYSTEM. Eric H. Holbrook. Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA

10:05

POTENTIAL METHODS FOR IN VIVO IMAGING OF HUMAN OLFACTORY TISSUE. Eric H. Holbrook1, 2, Hironobu Nishijima2, 3, James E. Schwob2, Brian Lin2, Anastasia Yendiki4, Ting Gong4. 1Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA. 2Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. 3The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 4Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

10:20

IMAGING THE NASAL AND OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM WITH IN VIVO MICROSCOPY Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt1, Brian Lin2, Erica Villareyna Lopex1, Eric H. Holbrook4, Guillermo J. Tearney1. 1Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 2Tufts University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. 3Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 4Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA

10:40

NON-INVASIVE METHOD TO MEASURE OLFACTION AND SMELL DISORDERS USING FLOURESCENE AGENT TARGETING NAV1. 7 Dauren Adilbay 1, 2, 3, Junior Gonzales1, Marianna Zazhytska4, Paula Demetrio de Souza Franca1, 5, Raik Artschwager1, Snehal Patel2, Albana Kodra4, 6, Jonathan Overdevest7, Chun Yen Chow8, 9, Glenn King8, 9, Sanjay Jain10, 11, Alvaro Ordonez10, 11, Laurence Carroll10, 11, Stavros Lomvardas4, Thomas Reiner1, 12, Naga Vara Kishore Pillarsetty1, 12. 1Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. 2Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. 3Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. 4Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind, Brain and Behavior Institute, Columbia University New York, NY, USA. 5Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Federal University of Sao Paul, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 6Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. 7Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University New York, NY, USA. 8Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. 9Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. 10Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 11Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 12Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

11:00

POLAK YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDEE: HIGH-SPEED VOLUMETRIC IMAGING OF THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM: FROM PERIPHERY TO CORTEX Lu Xu1, Wenze Li1, Eliza C. B. Jeager2, Nicholas J. Chua2, Stuart J. Firestein2, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman1, 2, Maria A. Tosches2. 1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. 2Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

11:20

DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIPHOTON ENDOSCOPE FOR CLINICAL IMAGING OF HUMAN OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM Emily A. Gibson1, Diego Restrepo2, Skylar Suarez1, Conner Massey3. 1Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA. 2Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA. 3Department of Otolaryngology - Head a Neck Surgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

WHERE THE OLFACTORY AND REWARD SYSTEM MEET Chair/Organizer: Wolfgang Kelsch and Sarah Sniffen Calusa ABC

10:00

INVITED SYMPOSIUM: ENCODING ODOR VALUE - WHERE THE OLFACTORY AND REWARD SYSTEM MEET Wolfgang Kelsch2, 3, Sarah Sniffen1. 1Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology a Therapeutics, Florida Chemical Senses Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA. 2Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany. 3Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

10:05

IMPACT OF EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY ON HEDONIC ODOR PERCEPTION: THE ROLE OF THE OLFACTORY TUBERCLE Anna Athanassi1, Laura Chalencon1, Louis Foucault2, Olivier Raineteau2, Cecilia Neige3, 4, Laetitia Imbert3, 4, Maylis Duma3, 4, Jerome Brunelin3, 4, Kevin Bath5, 6, Nathalie Mandairon1. 1CNRS, UMR 5292, INSERM, U1028, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Neuroplasticity and Neuropathology of Olfactory Perception Team, University of Lyon, 69000, Bron, France. 2Univ Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute U1208 Bron, France. 3Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, F-69500, Bron, France. 4INSERM, U1028, CNRS UMR5292, PSYR2 Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, Bron, France. 5Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical College, New York, NY, USA. 6Weill Cornell Medical College, department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA

10:28

A MESOLIMBIC CHANNEL SHAPES PREDICTIVE DOPAMINE SIGNALING THROUGH RESPIRATORY COUPLING Max Scheller1, 2, Wolfgang Kelsch1, 2. 1Department of Psychiatry, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. 2Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

10:46

DIRECTING NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL STATES THROUGH AMYGDALA-STRIATAL CIRCUITRY Sarah E. Sniffen1, Sang Eun Ryu1, Milayna M. Kokoska1, Janardhan Bhattarai2, Yingqi Wang2, Ellyse R. Thomas1, Graylin M. Skates1, Natalie L. Johnson1, Andy A. Chavez1, Sophia R. Iaconis1, Emma Janke2, Yun-Feng Zhang2, 3, Minghong Ma1, Daniel W. Wesson2. 1Depts of Neuroscience and Pharmacology a Therapeutics, Florida Chemical Senses Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. 2Dept of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

11:04

STABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE OLFACTORY TUBERCLE Venkatesh N Murthy. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

11:27

POTENTIAL ROLE OF ISLANDS OF CALLEJA IN REGULATING GROOMING AND DEPRESSION-LIKE BEHAVIOR IN MICE Minghong Ma. Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

11:50

Q& A PANEL.

12:30 - 2:00 PM WORKSHOP

HOW CAN WE DO BETTER? DISRUPTIVE IDEAS FOR UNDERSTANDING OLFACTION AND TASTE IN NATURAL CONTEXTS Chair/Organizer: Matthew Wachowiak and Elizabeth Hong Calusa ABC As experimentalists attempting to understand the neural basis of smell and taste, we are forced to make choices about which stimuli to use, how we present them, how we measure perception, and the range of odor- or taste-guided behaviors we study. As a result, our collective understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying chemosensation derives from a body of work that can be driven by experimental practicalities and divorced from the realities of how animals experience and respond to olfactory and gustatory signals in their natural environment. Despite key discoveries and game-changing advances in technologies for probing neural mechanisms and behavior, placing experimental findings in a naturalistic context remains a challenge that, we argue, receives too little attention. Here, we bring together a panel of scientists with expertise in diverse areas of chemosensory neuroscience to share their perspectives on advancing our understanding of how smell and taste actually work in the natural world. The panel will feature ample time for discussion and debate, including input from the audience, on ways of approaching chemosensory neuroscience from a more naturalistic perspective – and how a failure to do so might lead us astray. Panelists Matt Wachowiak, University of Utah School of Medicine Elizabeth J. Hong, California Institute of Technology Adam Dewan, Florida State Unviersity Don Katz, Brandeis University Lisa Stowers, Scripps Research Institute Moderators Alfredo Fontanini, SUNY Stonybrook Leslie Kay, University of Chicago

2:00 - 4:10 PM SYMPOSIUM

EATING WITH FEELING: EXPLORING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND CHEMOSENSORY STIMULI Chair/Organizer: Kathryn Deibler, Xiaorong (Phoebe) Su, Casey Trimmer, Dan Wesson, Theresa White Calusa ABC

2:00

EATING WITH FEELING: EXPLORING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND CHEMOSENSORY STIMULI Kathryn Deibler1, Xiaorong (Phoebe) Su2, Casey Trimmer3, Dan Wesson4, Theresa White5. 1Flavour Essentials . 2Cargill . 3Firmenich . 4University of Florida . 5Le Moyne College

2:05

EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND CHEMOSENSORY STIMULI: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Rachel Herz. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School

2:28

A MULTICOMPONENTIAL APPROACH TO EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES: THE CASE OF RELAXING AND STIMULATING ODORS Geraldine Coppin. UniDistance Suisse a Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva

2:50

FROM FLAVOR TO FEELING: SYMRISE'S NEUROSCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS IN TASTE Mansi Patney, Jonathan Jacobs. Symrise AG

3:08

GENERATIVE AI IN SENSORY SCIENCE: DATA CRUNCHING TO CONSUMER UNDERSTANDING Michelle Murphy Niedziela. Nerdoscientist LLC

3:30

AROUSAL AND THE MODULATION OF FOOD-RELATED PERCEPTIONS AND EMOTIONS John Prescott. Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy a TasteMatters Research a Consulting, Australia

3:52

HOW RECKITT LEVERAGES EMOTIONS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CONSUMER Stephen Lillford1, Neeta Yousaf2. 1Reckitt . 2Curion Insights

2:00 - 4:00 PM SYMPOSIUM

NEUROMODULATION OF CHEMOSENSATION Chair/Organizer: Natale Sciolino & John Boughter Calusa EFGH

2:00

NEUROMODULATION AND CHEMOSENSATION: FROM DYNAMICS TO FUNCTION Natale Sciolino1, John Boughter2. 1University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 2University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA

2:05

NEUROMODULATION IN THE GUSTATORY CORTEX AND ITS INVOLVEMENT IN TASTE BEHAVIORS Mia B. Fox1, Walt J. Krueger1, Stephanie M. Staszko2, John D. Boughter Jr. 1, Max L. Fletcher1. 1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA. 2Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

2:28

LOCUS COERULEUS NORADRENERGIC MODULATION OF CORTICAL TASTE PROCESSING Will Fan, Natale R. Sciolino. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

2:51

MONOAMINE DYNAMICS IN RESPONSE TO TASTES IN HUMANS Alexandra DiFeliceantonio1, 2. 1Fraline Biomedical Resarch Institute, VTC, Roanoke, VA, USA. 2Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Blacksburg, VA, USA

3:14

DOPAMINE DIFFERENTIALLY ENCODES SUCROSE ACROSS THE ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION OF A CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION Maxine K. Loh1, 2, Samantha J. Hurh2, Paula Bazzino3, Rachel M. Donka2, Alexandra T. Keinath2, Jamie D. Roitman2, Mitchell F. Roitman2, 3. 1Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 2Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 3Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

3:37

A THIRST-DEPENDENT ODOR SPOTLIGHT Silvia Huerta Lopez, Katie McShea, Stephen Liberles . Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA, USA

4:00 - 4:30 PM BREAK

COFFEE BREAK Estero Foyer

4:15 - 6:00 PM POSTER SESSION

DON TUCKER MEMORIAL AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS POSTER SESSION (click to view) (click to close) Estero Ballroom

401

DON TUCKER FINALIST: ODOR ENCODING IN THE DORSAL TENIA TECTA, AN UNDER-EXPLORED AREA OF PRIMARY OLFACTORY CORTEX Sam A Caton, Austin Pauley, Cecilia Bouaichi, Roberto Vincis, Adam Dewan. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

402

DON TUCKER FINALIST: LOCUS COERULEUS NORADRENERGIC MODULATION OF CORTICAL TASTE PROCESSING Will Fan, Natale R. Sciolino. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

403

DON TUCKER FINALIST: ESTROGEN ALTERS FATTY ACID SIGNALING IN TYPE II TASTE CELLS Emeline Masterson1, 2, Kaylee Perez1, 2, Naima Dahir1, 2, Timothy Gilbertson2. 1Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. 2Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

404

DON TUCKER FINALIST: PALATABILITY AND POST-PRANDIAL GLYCEMIC RESPONSES OF BREADS ENRICHED WITH SOYBEAN FLOUR  Stephanie Okoye1, Rachel Carlson2, David Dohem2, Kenneth Dallmier3, Yanina M. Pepino1, 4, 5. 1Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. 2Northern Crops Institute, Fargo, ND, USA. 3Demand Side Ag, Mahomet, IL, USA. 4Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. 5Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL, USA

405

DON TUCKER FINALIST: GENETICALLY-HETEROGENEOUS OREXIN-A INPUTS TO THE MOUSE OLFACTORY BULB MODULATE MITRAL/TUFTED CELLS VIA OREXIN RECEPTOR TYPE 1 AND 2 Meizhu Qi1, 2, Debra Fadool1, 2, 3, Douglas Storace1, 2, 3. 1Department of Biological Science, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 2Program in Neuroscience, Tallahassee, FL, USA. 3Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Tallahassee, FL, USA

406

DON TUCKER FINALIST: 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

407

DON TUCKER FINALIST: BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA CIRCUITRY LINKED TO THE VENTRAL STRIATUM UNDERLIES EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO ODORS Sarah E. Sniffen1, Sang Eun Ryu1, Milayna M. Kokoska1, Janardhan Bhattarai2, Yingqi Wang2, Ellyse R. Thomas1, Graylin M. Skates1, Natalie L. Johnson1, Andy A. Chavez1, Sophia R. Iaconis1, Emma Janke2, Yun-Feng Zhang2, 3, Minghong Ma2, Daniel W. Wesson1. 1Depts of Neuroscience and Pharmacology a Therapeutics, Florida Chemical Senses Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. 2Dept of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

408

DON TUCKER FINALIST: THE ROLE OF TEX15 IN SHAPING STOCHASTIC OLFACTORY RECEPTOR GENE CHOICE IN MOUSE OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM Nusrath Yusuf1, Jerome Kahiapo1, David Brann3, Alina Irvine2, Josh Danoff1, Alina Irvine1, Pavithra Veera1, Nader Boutros-Ghali1, Bob Datta3, Kevin Monahan1. 1Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 2Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA. 3Havard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

409

ACHEMS UNDERGRAD FINALIST: OLEATE AND LINOLEATE FATTY ACID ORAL DETECTION THRESHOLDS IN HUMANS Samuel I Deutsch1, Nicholas Amado1, Paul A. S. Breslin1, 2. 1Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 2Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

410

ACHEMS UNDERGRAD FINALIST: UNIFYING ODOR AND PLACE IN THE MOUSE OLFACTORY BULB Sidney E. Rafilson, Nate Gonzales-Hess, Casey Lennon-Jones, Aldis P. Weible, Matthew C. Smear. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

411

ACHEMS UNDERGRAD FINALIST: REVEALING EXPLICIT ODOR INTENSITY RATINGS WITH RELATIVE READOUTS Aiden Streleckis1, Robert Pellegrino1, Beatrice Barra2, Matthew Andres1, Jacqueline Zhao2, Dmitry Rinberg2, Joel D. Mainland1, 3. 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Neuroscience Institute, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA. 3Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

7:00 - 9:00 PM SYMPOSIUM

PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM: MOTORIZING THE CHEMICAL SENSES Chair/Organizer: Alfredo Fontanini Calusa EFGH

7:00

MOTORIZING THE CHEMICAL SENSES Alfredo Fontanini. Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

7:08

A COLLICULAR MAP FOR TOUCH-GUIDED TONGUE CONTROL Jesse Goldberg, Brendan Ito, Yongjie Gao, Brian Kardon. Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

7:36

CORTICAL ENCODING OF PRIMATE TONGUE SHAPE DURING FEEDING Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Callum Ross. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

8:04

INVIGORATING THE TRANSITION FROM A BREATH TO A SNIFF Dan Wesson. University of Florida College of Medicine, Dept of Pharmacology a Therapeutics, Florida Chemical Senses Institute, Gainesville, FL, USA

8:32

MECHANICAL COMPONENTS OF CHEMICAL PLUME SENSING Mitra Hartmann1, 2, Thomas Janssen1, Neelesh Patankar1, Shayan Heydari 3, Rajeev Jaiman3. 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

9:00 - 12:00 AM EVENT

DANCE PARTY Mangroves & Belvedere