#olfaction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #olfaction, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧠🐝 A University of #Colorado #Boulder team studied how #turbulence transforms odor signals as they travel.
Using #wind tunnels, #lasers, and real-world plume measurements, they identified three ways airflow filters, spreads, and generates odor frequencies. They argue these systematic changes encode distance and direction information #animals use for olfactory #navigation.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-decoding-reveals-odor.html
#science #smell #olfaction #bees #neuroscience #physics #cuboulder #research #biology
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧠🐝 A University of #Colorado #Boulder team studied how #turbulence transforms odor signals as they travel.
Using #wind tunnels, #lasers, and real-world plume measurements, they identified three ways airflow filters, spreads, and generates odor frequencies. They argue these systematic changes encode distance and direction information #animals use for olfactory #navigation.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-decoding-reveals-odor.html
#science #smell #olfaction #bees #neuroscience #physics #cuboulder #research #biology
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Wings of the tobacco hawkmoth have been found to have chemosensory pores that can detect airborne pyrrolidine and piperidine, which are released by nightshade plants that the moths prefer for laying eggs.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-moth-wings-reveal-unexpected-ability.html
Original paper: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/14/jeb252047/372157/Noses-on-the-wing-the-olfactory-capacity-of
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Wings of the tobacco hawkmoth have been found to have chemosensory pores that can detect airborne pyrrolidine and piperidine, which are released by nightshade plants that the moths prefer for laying eggs.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-moth-wings-reveal-unexpected-ability.html
Original paper: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/14/jeb252047/372157/Noses-on-the-wing-the-olfactory-capacity-of
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐭🧪 Naked mole-rat queens secrete a chemical called isopropyl myristate that suppresses fertility in rivals.
Researchers in #Berlin found the compound, which remains stable on tunnel surfaces for roughly 24 hours, works as a non violent alternative to bullying. The scent alone prevented breeding and colony takeovers even when the #queen was removed.
#nakedmolerats #pheromones #biology #animals #behavior #science #reproduction #maxdelbrückcenter #neurobiology #olfaction #rodents #nature #chemistry
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐭🧪 Naked mole-rat queens secrete a chemical called isopropyl myristate that suppresses fertility in rivals.
Researchers in #Berlin found the compound, which remains stable on tunnel surfaces for roughly 24 hours, works as a non violent alternative to bullying. The scent alone prevented breeding and colony takeovers even when the #queen was removed.
#nakedmolerats #pheromones #biology #animals #behavior #science #reproduction #maxdelbrückcenter #neurobiology #olfaction #rodents #nature #chemistry
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Primer: "Neurons generated shortly after birth encode the scent of early-life happiness", by Chloé Guillaume and Elisa Galliano, 2026.
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Primer: "Neurons generated shortly after birth encode the scent of early-life happiness", by Chloé Guillaume and Elisa Galliano, 2026.
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📰 "The BPI-like TULIP domain proteins of Drosophila melanogaster: a novel class of candidate odorant transporters."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734463v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Olfaction
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Since it remains unclear whether my current #PostDoc contract will be prolonged in January, I am starting to look for a new #AcademicJob!
My expertise are #ecology, #ethology, #AnimalBehavior, with a focus on #olfaction in #mammals.
I had a stint in #NeuroEthology, but that wasn't quite my cup of tea, and I am currently working in #AnimalWelfare for husbandry animals (think cows, pigs etc).
I have done field work (wild rodents), lab work (very controlled behavioral assays), and pure data analysis.
I do everything in #rstats, so my standard analysis tools are GLM/GLMM, but I'm currently learning how to properly use Generalized Additive Models, as they seem like the natural next step.
I've also dabbled in #python in order to work with #DeepLabCut and #moseq, so the last few years I spent mostly with #ComputerVision, #DeepLearning, and extracting data from videos.
As that requires heavy GPU calculations, I've done most on my work on institutional and/or national #HPC, and then crunched the masses of resulting data in #rstatsI'm looking for a job in the #EU, preferably anywhere north of Germany, but let's be honest, I'll go wherever there is a job.
My website is a bit outdated, but https://tsievert.com/
Please boost for visibility!
#AnimalBehaviour #FediJobs #FediHire #GetFediHired #LookingForJob
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Since it remains unclear whether my current #PostDoc contract will be prolonged in January, I am starting to look for a new #AcademicJob!
My expertise are #ecology, #ethology, #AnimalBehavior, with a focus on #olfaction in #mammals.
I had a stint in #NeuroEthology, but that wasn't quite my cup of tea, and I am currently working in #AnimalWelfare for husbandry animals (think cows, pigs etc).
I have field work (wild rodents), lab work (very controlled behavioral assays), and pure data analysis.
I do everything in #rstats, so my standard analysis tools are GLM/GLMM, but I'm currently learning how to properly use Generalized Additive Models, as they seem like the natural next step.
I've also dabbled in #python in order to work with #DeepLabCut and #moseq, so the last few years I spent mostly with #ComputerVision, #DeeplLearning, and extracting data from videos.
As that requires heavy GPU calculations, I've done most on my work on institutional and/or national #HPC, and then crunched the masses of resulting data in #rstatsI'm looking for a job in the #EU, preferably anywhere north of Germany, but let's be honest, I'll go wherever there is a job.
My website is a bit outdated, but tsievert.com
Please boost for visibility!
#AnimalBehaviour #FediJobs #FediHire #GetFediHired #LookingForJob
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📰 "Olfactory Loss Enhances Visual Learning in Drosophila through Structural and Functional Reorganisation"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.16.732444v1?rss=1
#Connectomics
#Drosophila #Olfaction
#Sensory
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📰 "An arthropod-specific TMEM16 protein accelerates olfactory response termination in Drosophila"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.21.727025v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Olfaction
#Drosophila #Adult
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"On smelling your way to the fruit with ring models" – a podcast featuring Katherine Nagel.
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"On smelling your way to the fruit with ring models" – a podcast featuring Katherine Nagel.
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"Rapid temporal processing in the olfactory bulb underlies concentration-invariant odor identification and signal decorrelation", Karadas et al. 2026 (Dima Rinberg's lab).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02250-yCircuits in the mouse olfactory bulb implement a rapid filter:
"Animals who rely on smell need to identify and discriminate odors despite fluctuations in concentration, yet odor receptor activation is strongly concentration dependent. [...] We found that the glomeruli [...] activated earliest in a sniff robustly represented odor identity across concentrations, ... . [via] a short temporal window of excitability at a sniff’s onset, followed by prolonged odor-evoked inhibition. The OB implements a rapid temporal filter, which is responsible for stabilizing identity across concentrations while decorrelating responses between odors."
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"Rapid temporal processing in the olfactory bulb underlies concentration-invariant odor identification and signal decorrelation", Karadas et al. 2026 (Dima Rinberg's lab).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02250-yCircuits in the mouse olfactory bulb implement a rapid filter:
"Animals who rely on smell need to identify and discriminate odors despite fluctuations in concentration, yet odor receptor activation is strongly concentration dependent. [...] We found that the glomeruli [...] activated earliest in a sniff robustly represented odor identity across concentrations, ... . [via] a short temporal window of excitability at a sniff’s onset, followed by prolonged odor-evoked inhibition. The OB implements a rapid temporal filter, which is responsible for stabilizing identity across concentrations while decorrelating responses between odors."
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Hunter-gatherers in Malaysia have better-preserved smell genes than farmers — and new genomics research explains why. How you live shapes what your nose can detect, all the way down to your DNA.
#HumanEvolution #Genomics #Olfaction https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-hunter-gatherers-kept-that-farmers -
Hunter-gatherers in Malaysia have better-preserved smell genes than farmers — and new genomics research explains why. How you live shapes what your nose can detect, all the way down to your DNA.
#HumanEvolution #Genomics #Olfaction https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-hunter-gatherers-kept-that-farmers -
📰 "Natural statistics of host odours predict species-specific olfactory behaviours in Drosophilids"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.27.714575v1?rss=1
#Drosophila #Olfaction
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Now diving into the processing and transformation of raw olfactory stimulation of sensory neurons to the output of the olfactory neuropils via projection neurons, see these two papers, one in fly and one in zebrafish. The former shows how PNs respond to the derivative of the input, which is essential for tracking stimuli up a gradient, and the latter shows how the LNs perform a whitening of the olfactory input (to decorrelate the inputs into the otherwise multiply stimulated olfactory receptors and their corresponding sensory neurons) which optimally prepares similar stimuli for separation:
Kim AJ, Lazar AA, Slutskiy YB. Projection neurons in Drosophila antennal lobes signal the acceleration of odor concentrations. Elife. 2015 May 14;4:e06651.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/6651Wanner AA, Friedrich RW. Whitening of odor representations by the wiring diagram of the olfactory bulb. Nature neuroscience. 2020 Mar;23(3):433-42.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0576-z4/4
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Now diving into the processing and transformation of raw olfactory stimulation of sensory neurons to the output of the olfactory neuropils via projection neurons, see these two papers, one in fly and one in zebrafish. The former shows how PNs respond to the derivative of the input, which is essential for tracking stimuli up a gradient, and the latter shows how the LNs perform a whitening of the olfactory input (to decorrelate the inputs into the otherwise multiply stimulated olfactory receptors and their corresponding sensory neurons) which optimally prepares similar stimuli for separation:
Kim AJ, Lazar AA, Slutskiy YB. Projection neurons in Drosophila antennal lobes signal the acceleration of odor concentrations. Elife. 2015 May 14;4:e06651.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/6651Wanner AA, Friedrich RW. Whitening of odor representations by the wiring diagram of the olfactory bulb. Nature neuroscience. 2020 Mar;23(3):433-42.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0576-z4/4
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And in flies in particular, all papers signed by Rachel Wilson as the senior author (now a professor at Harvard Medical School) in the early 2000s are absolutely outstanding, on probing with electrophysiology and genetics the various synapses in the fruit fly olfactory system, e.g., the sensory neuron (ORN or OSN, synonyms) to the projection neurons (PNs), or the local neurons (LNs), or the LNs to each other or to the PNs, and the PNs back to the LNs. She's written a couple of reviews on the subject that are very accessible for the curious student.
Click on "Publications" and expand them, to find the ones published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology or in the Annual Review Neuroscience:
https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/rachel-wilson... like e.g., this one:
Wilson RI. Early olfactory processing in Drosophila: mechanisms and principles. Annual review of neuroscience. 2013 Jul 8;36(1):217-41.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150533Rachel's more recent work is on neural networks in the fly for spatial navigation.
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And in flies in particular, all papers signed by Rachel Wilson as the senior author (now a professor at Harvard Medical School) in the early 2000s are absolutely outstanding, on probing with electrophysiology and genetics the various synapses in the fruit fly olfactory system, e.g., the sensory neuron (ORN or OSN, synonyms) to the projection neurons (PNs), or the local neurons (LNs), or the LNs to each other or to the PNs, and the PNs back to the LNs. She's written a couple of reviews on the subject that are very accessible for the curious student.
Click on "Publications" and expand them, to find the ones published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology or in the Annual Review Neuroscience:
https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/rachel-wilson... like e.g., this one:
Wilson RI. Early olfactory processing in Drosophila: mechanisms and principles. Annual review of neuroscience. 2013 Jul 8;36(1):217-41.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150533Rachel's more recent work is on neural networks in the fly for spatial navigation.
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On that, the work from Lucia Prieto-Godino in (then) Richard Benton's lab on "undead" neurons is critical, demonstrating that, beyond the genes encoding olfactory receptors, there is a much larger pool of pseudogenes (genes that aren't normally expressed) that, when rescued, result in additional, distinct yet functional glomeruli in the first-order neuropil for olfaction (the antennal lobe in an insect; the olfactory bulb in a vertebrate).
Prieto-Godino LL, Silbering AF, Khallaf MA, Cruchet S, Bojkowska K, Pradervand S, Hansson BS, Knaden M, Benton R. Functional integration of “undead” neurons in the olfactory system. Science advances. 2020 Mar 11;6(11):eaaz7238.
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.aaz7238Lucia is now a lab head at The Crick, studying with comparative connectomics the evolution of olfactory circuits and more, in fruit flies.
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On that, the work from Lucia Prieto-Godino in (then) Richard Benton's lab on "undead" neurons is critical, demonstrating that, beyond the genes encoding olfactory receptors, there is a much larger pool of pseudogenes (genes that aren't normally expressed) that, when rescued, result in additional, distinct yet functional glomeruli in the first-order neuropil for olfaction (the antennal lobe in an insect; the olfactory bulb in a vertebrate).
Prieto-Godino LL, Silbering AF, Khallaf MA, Cruchet S, Bojkowska K, Pradervand S, Hansson BS, Knaden M, Benton R. Functional integration of “undead” neurons in the olfactory system. Science advances. 2020 Mar 11;6(11):eaaz7238.
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.aaz7238Lucia is now a lab head at The Crick, studying with comparative connectomics the evolution of olfactory circuits and more, in fruit flies.
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An undergraduate student asked me about olfactory sensory processing and this is what I replied. What have I missed of major importance, from the perspective of a senior undergrad?
The olfactory system is indeed fascinating, one that challenged researchers for some time. The first major break through came from Richard Axel's lab by the hand of the then student Leslie Vosshall, now professor at Rockefeller in New York and prominent HHMI Vicepresident and mosquito researcher.
Vosshall LB, Amrein H, Morozov PS, Rzhetsky A, Axel R. A spatial map of olfactory receptor expression in the Drosophila antenna. Cell. 1999 Mar 5;96(5):725-36.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(00)80582-6A search for "Vosshall Axel" in Google Scholar will surface related papers:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=vosshall+axel&btnG=A conceptual breakthrough in olfactory coding came from the study of receptors by several groups, in both flies and mice, and later in zebrafish, but what I find compelling is the development of the primacy hypothesis for olfactory receptors by Rinberg's and Koulakov's labs:
Wilson CD, Serrano GO, Koulakov AA, Rinberg D. A primacy code for odor identity. Nature communications. 2017 Nov 14;8(1):1477.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01432-4The above relates to the ability of animals to have a small number of olfactory receptors (like a fly larva) or more (an adult fruit fly) or many more (like moths and bees), or even more (like in a dog's nose), and yet the system works. More receptors support a less coarse encoding of odours, and vice versa. But the system for olfactory sensing is flexible and therefore evolvable.
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An undergraduate student asked me about olfactory sensory processing and this is what I replied. What have I missed of major importance, from the perspective of a senior undergrad?
The olfactory system is indeed fascinating, one that challenged researchers for some time. The first major break through came from Richard Axel's lab by the hand of the then student Leslie Vosshall, now professor at Rockefeller in New York and prominent HHMI Vicepresident and mosquito researcher.
Vosshall LB, Amrein H, Morozov PS, Rzhetsky A, Axel R. A spatial map of olfactory receptor expression in the Drosophila antenna. Cell. 1999 Mar 5;96(5):725-36.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(00)80582-6A search for "Vosshall Axel" in Google Scholar will surface related papers:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=vosshall+axel&btnG=A conceptual breakthrough in olfactory coding came from the study of receptors by several groups, in both flies and mice, and later in zebrafish, but what I find compelling is the development of the primacy hypothesis for olfactory receptors by Rinberg's and Koulakov's labs:
Wilson CD, Serrano GO, Koulakov AA, Rinberg D. A primacy code for odor identity. Nature communications. 2017 Nov 14;8(1):1477.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01432-4The above relates to the ability of animals to have a small number of olfactory receptors (like a fly larva) or more (an adult fruit fly) or many more (like moths and bees), or even more (like in a dog's nose), and yet the system works. More receptors support a less coarse encoding of odours, and vice versa. But the system for olfactory sensing is flexible and therefore evolvable.
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CW: spoilers: The Trip To Echo Spring
Up to page 5.
Well written, fulfilling to read. Which has more than made up for the distress of reading about the destruction wrought by alcoholism on the characters introduced.
Let's have a poll about sensory perception and how we experience smells, aromas & scents.
" ... and the smell of wood smoke is articulate in the air." O. Liang
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CW: spoilers: The Trip To Echo Spring
Up to page 5.
Well written, fulfilling to read. Which has more than made up for the distress of reading about the destruction wrought by alcoholism on the characters introduced.
Let's have a poll about sensory perception and how we experience smells, aromas & scents.
" ... and the smell of wood smoke is articulate in the air." O. Liang
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Smellosophy by A. S. Barwich. 2020
What the Nose Tells the Mind
A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.
Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli “spark” neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. -
Smellosophy by A. S. Barwich. 2020
What the Nose Tells the Mind
A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.
Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli “spark” neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. -
Smell by Matthew Cobb, 2020
Our sense of smell—or olfaction as it is technically known—is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a mate, or a home; to sense danger; and to send and receive complex messages with other members of a species.
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Smell by Matthew Cobb, 2020
Our sense of smell—or olfaction as it is technically known—is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a mate, or a home; to sense danger; and to send and receive complex messages with other members of a species.
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Also the #iBehave seminar series continues. First speaker will be Prof. Dr. Veronica Egger (University of Regensburg), talking about "Rhythms in the #OlfactoryBulb: From #NeuronalNetwork #oscillations to heartbeat interoception"
📅 Jan 12, 2026, 10:30 am
👤 Host: Gaia Tavosanis
💻 Zoom link via [email protected] -
Also the #iBehave seminar series continues. First speaker will be Prof. Dr. Veronica Egger (University of Regensburg), talking about "Rhythms in the #OlfactoryBulb: From #NeuronalNetwork #oscillations to heartbeat interoception"
📅 Jan 12, 2026, 10:30 am
👤 Host: Gaia Tavosanis
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“When [thioacetone] was first distilled in 1889, it almost immediately caused vomiting and unconsciousness to everyone within a half-mile radius.” #olfaction #smell https://apple.news/AQhxCJB31TlKU2QSUXtgsfA
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“When [thioacetone] was first distilled in 1889, it almost immediately caused vomiting and unconsciousness to everyone within a half-mile radius.” #olfaction #smell https://apple.news/AQhxCJB31TlKU2QSUXtgsfA
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Ever wonder how birds are able to identify their nest? Jennings et al. show that nests can become scented like the birds that occupy them, which may enable birds to use olfaction to accomplish this critical task.
Read now ahead of print!
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Ever wonder how birds are able to identify their nest? Jennings et al. show that nests can become scented like the birds that occupy them, which may enable birds to use olfaction to accomplish this critical task.
Read now ahead of print!
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📰 "Differential dopaminergic modulation of the antennal lobe of Drosophila melanogaster"
https://doi.org/doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08922-y
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41225088/
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SemIDEEV de Maxime POLICARPO
📅 Lundi 3 novembre 2025 à 14h à l'IDEEV
⏩"Evolution of olfaction in vertebrates"
⏩ En savoir plus : https://www.ideev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/seminaires/
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#Retronasal #Olfaction is the process of perceiving smells from food and drinks inside your mouth as odor molecules travel up the back of your throat into the nasal cavity, contributing to the sensation of flavor.
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#Retronasal #Olfaction is the process of perceiving smells from food and drinks inside your mouth as odor molecules travel up the back of your throat into the nasal cavity, contributing to the sensation of flavor.
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"we develop a computational model for structural plasticity in the olfactory bulb and show that it is the maturation process of adult-born neurons that enables the bulb to learn quickly and forget slowly. Particularly important are the transient enhancement of the plasticity, excitability, and susceptibility to apoptosis that characterizes young neurons."
"Adult Neurogenesis Reconciles Flexibility and Stability of Olfactory Perceptual Memory", Sakelaris and Riecke, 2025
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David Zimmerman's PhD thesis (Aravi Samuel's lab) just went public:
"Principles of Sensory Integration and Behavioral Flexibility in Drosophila: Symmetry, Plasticity, and Variability"
https://www.proquest.com/openview/3fcbb01ef20c065fd4fb277f3cea972d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y -
Fascinating: direct and indirect activity of olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) in response to CO2 via lateral interactions in the antennal lobe, presumably mediated by excitatory local neurons (eLNs) as described 20 years ago by Rachel Wilson's lab.
"Parallel encoding of CO2 in attractive and aversive glomeruli by selective lateral signaling between olfactory afferents" Zocchi et al. (Elizabeth Hong) 2022.
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"Olfactory coding", Barnum and Hong 2023.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01753-5"Olfaction is at once both the primitive sensory modality and one of the hardest to understand, in large part due to the complexity of olfactory stimulus space. Whereas light and sound are easily ordered along natural physical axes that are reflected in their respective sensory codes, the organizational axes of odor space are not obvious."
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Latest from James Jeanne lab (I'm a fan):
"Divergent synaptic dynamics originate parallel pathways for computation and behavior in an olfactory circuit", Kim et al. 2025
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Fun #smell fact: #petrichor, the distinctive odour that occurs when it rains after periods of dry weather, is caused by a chemical (geosmin) emitted by bacteria in the soil. For reasons that are unclear, humans are extraordinarily sensitive to geosmin, being able to detect concentrations as low as four parts per billion. Perhaps somewhere in our evolutionary history this ability helped our ancestors detect and seek out water, much as camels do today. #olfaction
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2-year Postdoc Position: Evolution and Organization of Ant Olfactory Systems
– in Carlotta Martelli's lab at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
https://mrtlllab.uni-mainz.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PostDoc-Position-Neuro-Ants-150125.pdf
"The ideal candidate should have a strong background in bioinformatics, ideally with practical or theoretical experience in single-cell transcriptomics or comparative genomics. A keen interest in neurobiology is essential. Additional skills in evolutionary biology, insect handling, and programming (preferably in Python) would be advantageous, but are not mandatory."
Position still open!
#ants #PhDJobs #postdocJob #neuroscience #entomology #olfaction #bioinformatics
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PhD project with Marcus Stensmyr @MarcusStensmyr :
"will address fundamental questions about how the fly's sense of smell operates. More specifically, the prospective PhD student will map the evolution of chemoreceptors in drosophilids over deep time and investigate how these receptors are used to extract sensory information from the environment. The project will utilize museomics, comparative genomics, electrophysiology, and fieldwork to trace the functional evolution of chemoreceptor genes within Drosophilidae."
Knowing Marcus a bit, it is also going to be a lot of fun. And in a great city too – Lund, Sweden.
Apply by May 5th.
#Drosophila #olfaction #PhDPosition #PhDJobs
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:807744/iframeEmbedded:0/where:4
