Lecture > Session
Polak Awards Lectures
Moderator
Dan Wesson
Information
The Polak Foundation Awards are 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.
Presentations
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7:00 |
THE ROLE OF TRIGEMINAL ACTIVATION IN PERCEIVED ODOR INTENSITY Aiden Streleckis, Robert Pellegrino, Matthew Andres, Johannes Reisert, Joel Mainland, Federica Genovese. Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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7:20 |
A GLOMERULAR HIERARCHY FOR OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATIONS Walter G. Bast1, Cina Aghamohammadi1,2, Priyanka Gupta1, Tatiana Engel1,2, Florin Albeanu1. 1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA 2Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
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7:40 |
UTILIZING OLFACTORY RECEPTOR DEFINED GLOMERULI TO UNDERSTAND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ODOR REPRESENTATIONS IN THE MAMMALIAN OLFACTORY BULB Madison A. Herrboldt1, Mona A. Marie2, Hiroaki Matsunami2,3, Matt Wachowiak1. 1Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Department, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA 3Neurobiology Department, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA |
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8:00 |
BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA AND GUSTATORY CORTEX INTERACT BIDIRECTIONALLY DURING TASTE PROCESSING IN RODENTS Abuzar Mahmood, Jessica Steindler, Donald Katz. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA |
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8:20 |
ACTIVATION MECHANISMS AND COMPETITIVE ANTAGONISM IN CLASS I ODORANT RECEPTORS Mona A. Marie1, Hiroaki Matsunami1,2,3,4,5. 1Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Department, Duke School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA 2Neurobiology Department, Duke Schoole of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA 3Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, NC, USA 4Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, USA 5Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Durham, NC, USA |
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8:40 |
AN ESSENTIAL ROLE FOR DEPOLARIZATION BLOCK IN ODOR DISCRIMINATION David Tadres1,2,*, Philip Wong1,3,*, Naomi Khosalim1, Mariana Lopez4, Matthieu Louis1. 1University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 2current address: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA 3current address: University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain |