Program
The conference begins on June 23 and ends on June 27, 2012
Program overview
| 2012 | 23 June | 24 June | 25 June | 26 June | 27 June |
| Day | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |
| Morning | Symposium Exhibition |
Symposium Exhibition |
Symposium Exhibition |
Symposium Exhibition |
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| Lunch | Registration | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Closing |
| Afternoon | Registration Exhibition Symposium |
Symposium Exhibition |
Symposium | Symposium Exhibition |
Excursions |
| Evening | Welcome reception Waterfront |
Poster session l | Poster session ll |
Banquet Vasa Museum |
Detailed program
| Saturday 23 June | |
| 10.00-13.00 | Registration |
| 13.00-13.10 | Welcome, Bill Hansson, Milagros Gallo |
| 13.10-13.30 | ISOT 1962, Göran Hellekant |
| 13.30-15.00 | Keynote, Charles Zuker The biology of mammalian taste: from the tongue to the brain |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
| 15.30-17.30 | The other noses – the vomeronasal organ, the septal organ and the Grüneberg ganglion, Ivan Rodriguez |
| Coding of taste across mammals: from the tongue to the cortex, Göran Hellekant |
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| Chemosensory receptors in non-chemosensory tissues, Steve Munger, Kazushige Touhara |
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| 17.30 | Welcome reception at the conference venue, Stockholm Waterfront |
| Sunday 24 June | |
| 08.30-09.30 | Plenary, Cori Bargmann Genes, circuits, and flexibility in C. elegans olfactory behaviors |
| 09.30-10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00-12.00 | Olfactory and taste circuits, Cori Bargmann |
| Interspecific chemointeractions, Ted Turlings | |
| Robotics and artificial chemosensors, Paul Verschure | |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-15.00 | Human olfaction, Maria Larsson |
| Central mechanisms of tastelearning and memory, Milagros Gallo | |
| Chemosensory initiated mating behaviour, Bart Kempenaers | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
| 15.30-17.30 | From odorant receptor to glomerulus, Peter Mombaerts |
| The stimulus – odor space and chemometrics, Noam Sobel | |
| No taste, no smell: when the chemical senses are lost, Thomas Hummel | |
| 17.30- | Poster session I |
| Monday 25 June | |
| 08.30-09.30 | Plenary, Rickard Ignell |
| 09.30-10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00-12.00 | Plasticity and modulation in olfactory systems (Linnaeus Symposium), the Linnaeus Program |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-15.00 | Contributed talks |
| Contributed talks | |
| Contributed talks | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
| 15.30-17.30 | Contributed talks |
| Contributed talks | |
| Contributed talks | |
| 17.30- | Poster session II |
| Tuesday 26 June | |
| 08.30-09.30 | Plenary, Linda Buck + announcement Delwart Prize |
| 09.30-10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00-12.00 | Higher olfactory processing (Delwart Symposium), Linda Buck |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-15.00 | Delwart Prize Lecture + Higher olfactory processing (Delwart Symposium) contributed talks, Linda Buck |
| Taste and Beyond - Integration of Nutrient Sensor Functions in Oral Cavity and Gut (Ajinomoto Symposium), Yuzo Ninomiya, Robert Margolskee | |
| Toward a genetic basis for human olfaction, Frank Zufall | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
| 15.30-17.30 | Preference for umami taste controlled by chemical senses (Ajinomoto Symposium), Kunio Torii |
| Olfactory neuroethology, Markus Knaden, Silke Sachse | |
| Aquatic olfaction, Sigrun Korsching, Ivan Manzini | |
| Evening | Banquet at the Vasa Museum |
| Wednesday 27 June | |
| 08.30-09.30 | Plenary, Kristin Scott Taste recognition in Drosophila |
| 09.30-10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00-12.00 | Molecular and neural basis of taste detection, Kristin Scott |
| Odor memory and perception: cells to circuits, Donald Wilson | |
| Evolution of chemosensory systems, Richard Benton, Marcus Stensmyr | |
| 12.00-13.00 | Closing, Milagros Gallo, Bill Hansson |
| 13.00-17.30 | Excursions |
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