ACHEMS 2025

Thursday, April 24, 2025 7:00 PM Thursday, April 24, 2025 8:20 PM America/New_York POLAK AWARDS LECTURES Calusa EFGH aYaMRExkLzQZmPlsLmNx65599

POLAK AWARDS LECTURES

Lecture

Thursday, April 24, 2025

7:00 PM - 8:20 PM

Calusa EFGH

Chair/Moderator: Ann-Marie Torregrossa

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 Mi, John Mack, Wyatt Koolmees, Quinn Lyon, Luke Yochimowitz, Zhao-Qian Teng, Peihua Jiang, Craig Montell, Yali Zhang

7:20

IDENTIFICATION OF PUTATIVE ORAL MECHANOSENSORY END-ORGANS

Debarghya Dutta Banik, Tao Tang, Nicholas P. Weber, Suzanne I. Sollars, Brian A. Pierchala

7:40

OLFACTORY BULB ACTIVITY AND ACTIVE SNIFFING DURING NATURALISTIC FORAGING IN FREELY MOVING MICE

Jesse A. Smith, Kevin Bolding, Jiayue Tai, Ian Davison

8:00

REEVALUATING ODOR MIXTURES: EVIDENCE FOR PREDOMINANT LINEARITY

Robert Pellegrino, Jennifer Margolis, Carissa Evans, Mathew Andres, Emily Mayhew, Alex Wiltschko, Rick Gerkin, Joel Mainland