• CAREER NETWORKING SEMINAR SERIES

Now Available

State-Dependent Regulation of Chemosensory Processing
Ricardo Araneda, PhD and Zepeng Yao, PhD
June 11, 2024

AChemS Career Networking Seminar Series

The AChemS Mentoring and Networking Committee has launched the Career Networking Seminar Series featuring junior and senior investigators. The series is targeted at facilitating scientific exchange, career development and networking. Each talk will be approximately 20 minutes, leaving time for 10 minutes of questions. There will be two talks per seminar: one from a senior and one from a junior researcher.

This seminar series will occur in a virtual Zoom room. A recording of the seminar will be available on the AChemS website for all participants to view for up to 30 days.

In addition to live seminars, ACHEMS MEMBERS may view any past recording for no charge. Upon clicking on a link below, you will be asked to log into your ACHEMS Member Account to access any past seminar videos.

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Archived Seminars

Please find a list of archived seminars listed below. Members of ACHEMS may view a recording of each past webinar using their ACHEMS Member Account username/password.

AChemS Seminar Series Archive


The AChemS Mentoring and Networking Committee has launched the Career Networking Seminar Series featuring junior and senior investigators. The series is targeted at facilitating scientific exchange, career development and networking. As an AChemS member please enjoy exclusive access to past seminar recordings.


June 11, 2024

SEROTONERGIC NEURONS TRANSLATE FOOD SENSORY DETECTION INTO ENDOCRINE AND FEEDING CONTROL
Zepeng Yao, PhD
University of Florida

REGULATION OF OLFACTORY PROCESSING BY THE BASAL FOREBRAIN
Ricardo C. Araneda, PhD
University of Maryland



May 8, 2024

READY FOR DINNER: ODOR PLUME INTERMITTENCY-BASED NAVIGATION TO FOOD, AND SOCIAL ODOR CUES-BASED SELECTION OF FOOD
Kara Fulton, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Justus Verhagen, Ph.D.
John B. Pierce Laboratory



April 10, 2024

THE INTEGRATIVE PROCESSING OF ORAL THERMOSENSATION AND TASTE IN THE BRAIN
Jinrong Li, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma

Chad Samuelsen, Ph.D.
University of Louisville



March 18, 2024

NEURAL SYSTEMS SUPPORTING INNATE AND LEARNED VALENCE
Sachiko Yamanaka, PhD
University of California, Riverside

Dan Wesson, PhD
University of Florida



February 13, 2024

TOWARDS A ROBUST IN-VITRO MODEL OF THE OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM
Brian Lin, PhD
Tufts University

EPIGENETIC PROGRAMMING OF OLFACTORY SENSORY NEURON DIVERSIFICATION
Kevin Monahan, PhD
Rutgers University



January 17, 2024

DEVELOPMENT OF CORTICAL GUSTATORY CIRCUITS AND PREFERENCE FOR SWEET TASTES
Hillary C Schiff, PhD
Stony Brook University

SWEET TOOTH TANGO: NAVIGATING TASTE CHANGES IN OBESITY AND BARIATRIC SURGERY
M. Yanina Pepino, PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



December 13, 2023

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL VALUE OF TASTE AND SMELL: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
Jonas Junge
Monell

TASTE LOSS AND CANCER: A PROBLEM FOR BOTH PATIENTS AND CLINICIANS
Alissa Nolden, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts



July 20, 2023

CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-OLFACTORY SIGNALS IN THE OLFACTORY BULB AND THE ROLE OF RESPIRATION
Keith Perkins
Rutgers University

SOLVING THE SAMPLING/SENSATION PROBLEM IN THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM
Giuliano Iurilli, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive systems - Italian Institute of Technology – Rovereto (Italy)



June 8, 2023

STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS AND DIETARY INTAKE: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
Alissa Smethers, PhD, RDN, LDN
Temple University

THE ROLE OF SALIVA IN BITTER TASTE AND DIET ACCEPTANCE
Ann-Marie Torregrossa, Ph.D.
University at Buffalo



May 18, 2023

SEROTONERGIC PLASTICITY
Debosmita Sardar, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

DOPAMINERGIC PLASTICITY
Matt Grubb, DPhil
King’s College London, UK



April 6, 2023

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING OF CHEMOSENSATION IN MICE AND PRIMATES
Renée Hartig, Ph.D.
Nathan S. Kline Institute

BEYOND COMBINATORIAL CODING: DECONSTRUCTING ODOR REPRESENTATIONS IN THE MOUSE OLFACTORY SYSTEM
Matt Wachowiak, Ph.D.
University of Utah School of Medicine



March 23, 2023

SENSING THE EXTERNAL WORLD—OPSINS AS A NEW CLASS OF POLYMODAL SENSORY RECEPTOR
Craig Montell, Ph.D.
University of California Santa Barbara

SENSING THE INTERNAL WORLD - INTEROCEPTIVE CODING VIA THE VAGUS NERVE
Rui Chang, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine



February 16, 2023

UNEXPECTED ROLES FOR EXTRANASAL ODORANT RECEPTORS
Jennifer Pluznick, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

LIGANDS OF ODORANT RECEPTORS OUTSIDE THE ODOR SPACE
Antonella Di Pizio, PhD
In Silico Biology and Machine Learning Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich



January 26, 2023

MOLECULES THAT TRIGGER PAROSMIA AT THE PERIPHERY
Jane K Parker PhD
University of Reading, UK

RESTING STATE BRAIN ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT DEGREE OF PAROSMIA
Divesh Thaploo
Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Germany



December 8, 2022

TUNING, SEQUENCES AND GEOMETRY OF OLFACTORY REPRESENTATIONS
Jonathan V. Gill
NYU Langone Health, Rinberg Lab

TOWARDS BIOPHYSICAL MODELS OF FAMILY-WIDE CHEMOSENSORY REPRESENTATION
Timothy E. Holy, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis



May 26, 2022

NEUROBIOLOGY OF MATERNAL ODOR CONTROL OVER INFANT: RODENT MODEL TO DEFINE MECHANISMS
Regina Sullivan, Ph.D.
New York University Langone Medical Center

UNRAVELING ODOR’S INFLUENCE ON FACE CATEGORIZATION IN HUMAN INFANTS
Diane Rekow, Ph.D.
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté



March 24, 2022

MAPPING NEUROMODULATORY AND SENSORIMOTOR CIRCUIT MECHANISMS CONTROLLING PROTEIN-SPECIFIC FEEDING IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Ibrahim Tastekin
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

CONFLICT FEEDING: FORAGING IN THE FACE OF DANGER
Michael J Krashes.
NIH



February 25, 2022

LEARNING FROM MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Matej Hladiš
Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d’Azur

Joel D. Mainland, Ph.D.
Monell Chemical Senses Center



January 27, 2022

ODOR-GUIDED SPATIAL NAVIGATION: STRATEGIES AND CIRCUITS
David H. Gire, PhD
University of Washington

Cindy Poo, PhD
Champalimaud Research



October 28, 2021

A TALE OF TWO ROUTES: RETRO- VS ORTHO-NASAL OLFACTION
Kai Zhao, PhD
Ohio State University

Robert Pellegrino, PhD
Monell Chemical Senses Center



May 27, 2021

ORAL MECHANOSENSITIVITY: FROM ANATOMY TO SENSATION
Christopher T. Simons, PhD
Ohio State University

Yalda Moayedi, PhD
Columbia University



March 25, 2021

STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES OF ODORANT RECOGNITION IN INSECT OLFACTORY RECEPTORS
Josefina del Mármol, PhD
Rockefeller University

PARSING SAGE, ROSEMARY, AND THYME
Richard Gerkin, PhD
Arizona State University



February 25, 2021

THE COMINGS AND GOINGS OF SENSORY CELLS THAT CONTROL INGESTIVE BEHAVIORS
Emily R. Liman, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

Melanie Maya Kaelberer, Ph.D.
Duke University



January 28, 2021

BEYOND SINGLE ODORANTS: STUDYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF COMPLEX RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS TO THE OLFACTORY CODE
Casey Trimmer, PhD
Firmenich

LEVERAGING OLFACTION TO STUDY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE MOUSE
Lisa Stowers, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute












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