Form and Function of the Olfactory System
This meeting will explore progress in our understanding of the sense of smell from diverse viewpoints. Participants will discuss how the olfactory map develops, how it functions as a microcircuit, and how the olfactory system contributes to innate behaviors in the laboratory and in the wild.
Organizers
Leslie Vosshall, HHMI/The Rockefeller University
Kazushige Touhara, University of Tokyo
Invited Participants
David Anderson, HHMI/California Institute of Technology
Richard Axel, HHMI/Columbia University
Cori Bargmann, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Maxim Bazheno, University of California, Riverside
Linda Buck, HHMI/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Consuelo De Moraes, Penn State University
Stuart Firestein, Columbia University
Jay Gottfried, Northwestern University
Charles Greer, Yale University School of Medicine
Bill Hansson, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Timothy Holy, Washington University School of Medicine
Jane Hurst, University of Liverpool
Liqun Luo, HHMI/Stanford University
Zachary Mainen, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Peter Mombaerts, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Mamiko Ozaki, Kobe University
Dima Rinberg, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Hitoshi Sakano, The University of Tokyo
Lisa Stowers, The Scripps Research Institute
Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University
Nathan Urban, Carnegie Mellon University
Matt Wachowiak, Boston University
Jing Wang, University of California, San Diego
Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School
Yoshihiro Yoshihara, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Frank Zufall, University of Saarland