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Thursday, April 23, 2026 7:30 PM
Thursday, April 23, 2026 9:30 PM
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Polak Awards Lectures
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Polak Awards Lectures
Thursday, April 23, 2026 
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM ET
Moderator
Bradley Goldstein
Description
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.
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Presentations
| 7:30 |
EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSITY AND FUNCTION OF ODORANT RECEPTORS IN BIRDS Robert Driver1, Mona Marie1, Hiroaki Matsunami1, Christopher Balakrishnan2. 1Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA 2National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA |
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| 7:50 |
A SENSORY CIRCUIT FOR SOCIAL LEARNING Kara A. Fulton1, Slater Sharp1, Gloria DuMaine1, Sidharth Annapragada1, Phelipe E. Silva1,2, Sebastian Kruettner1,3, Emma Robinson1,4, Sandeep R. Datta1. 1Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 3Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA 4Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA |
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| 8:10 |
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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| 8:30 |
ASYMMETRIC HISTONE INHERITANCE REGULATES OLFACTORY STEM CELL FATES DURING REGENERATION Binbin Ma1, 2, Guanghui Yang1, 2, Jonathan Yao2, Charles Wu2, Jean P Vega2, Gabriel Manske3, Saher S Hammoud3, Satrajit Sinha4, Abhyudai Singh5, Haiqing Zhao2, Xin Chen1, 2. 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 4SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA 5University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA |
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| 8:50 |
A QUANTITATIVE PERCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR RECONSTRUCTING COMPLEX FOOD ODORS Xuebo Song1, Christiane Danilo1, Robert Pellegrino1, Joel Mainland1, 2. 11Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA 22Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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| 9:10 |
CONNECTOMIC MAPPING OF PHARYNGEAL AND GUT SENSORY CIRCUITS IN ADULT DROSOPHILA Dimitrios S. Giakoumas1, Julia M. Zhu1, Alaina Jamal2, Zepeng Yao1. 1University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2Pine Crest School, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA |