Olfaction

Misc Links:

• AChemS: Association for Chemoreception Sciences.
• Artificial Nose Project (DOD ARO/MURI).
• Books:
  • "The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination" by Alain Corbin.
  • "Perfume : The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind.
  • "Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and Taste" by Tristram D Wyatt.
• Chirality and odor perception.
• Cyrano Sciences, commercial electronic noses (humorously called the "Cyranose", after Cyrano de Bergerac.
• Dognoses.com.
• IFF: International Flavors and Fragrances.
• KlustaKwik, software for for unsupervised classification of multidimensional continuous data, especially neuronal spikes.
• Leffingwell & Associates, site with much info about smells and flavors, and tutorial on olfaction.
• The Olfactory Image Archive.
• Senselab, integrated multidisciplinary models based on the olfactory pathway.
• Sense of Smell Institute.

People:

• Axel lab.
• Alex Backer, (theorist).
• Maxim Bazhenov.
• Linda Buck.
• John Carlson.
• Thomas Christensen, Single-Neuron and Systems-Level Analysis of Olfactory Codes in the CNS.
• Thomas A. Cleland.
• Andrew Davison.
• Kerry Delaney.
• Howard Eichenbaum.
• Matthew Ennis.
• Walter Freeman.
• Rainer Friedrich.
• Giovanni Galizia, insect olfaction. Some of the spatiotemporal dynamics is put to music :) .
• Alan Gelperin.
• Lewis B. Haberly.
• Abdallah Hagar, studies glomeruli.
• Thomas Heinbockel, U. of Md.
• John Hildebrand, insect olfaction.
• John Hopfield.
• Brett Johnson.
• Larry Katz
  • His Duke web page.
  • Howard Hughes blurb.
• John Kauer, olfactory research at Tufts.
• Leslie Kay, U. of Chicago.
• Matthias Laska.
• Gilles Laurent.
• Zhaoping Li.
• Christiane Linster.
• Pierre-Marie Lledo, Pasteur Institute.
• Zachary Mainen.
• John McLean, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
• Markus Meister.
• Gero Miesenbock (Sloan Kettering).
• Peter Mombaerts, Rockefeller.
• Nathan Schoppa, U. Colorado Aurora.
• Gordon Shepherd.
• Michael Shipley, University of Maryland.
• Burton Slotnick, lesion studies of olfactiory bulb.
• Brian Smith, insect olfaction. See also this page.
• Noam Sobel and the BORP (Berkeley Olfactory Research Project).
• Hartwig Spors.
• Luca Turin.
• Nathan Urban, CMU. Role of lateral inhibition in the mouse olfactory bulb.
• Leslie Vosshall
• Matt Wachowiak.
• Donald A. Wilson, especially mechanisms of olfactory habituation.