How do animals use odors to guide natural behaviors?
The Odor2Action network leverages team science to achieve a greater understanding of unresolved questions in olfaction and neuroscience.
ABOUT ODOR2ACTION
The Odor2Action network brings together international scientists to solve classic, unresolved questions in neuroscience. Using the olfactory circuit, we aim to achieve an end-to-end understanding of how brains organize and process information from odors to guide adaptive behaviors. Through highly synergistic and inclusive team science, Odor2Action strives to create a model of open data and technology sharing that accelerates discoveries across the scientific community.
OUR RESEARCH
Animals use odor cues to navigate through their environments, helping them locate targets and assess danger. Much of how animal brains organize, read out, and respond to odor stimuli across spatial and temporal scales is not well understood.
To tackle these questions, Odor2Action uses a highly interdisciplinary team science approach. Our work uses fruit fly, honeybee, and mouse models to determine how neural representations of odor are generated, reformatted, and translated to generate useful behaviors that guide how animals interact with their environment.
RECENT NEWS
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RT @SilkeSachse: We are looking for a new PhD student to study experience-dependent modulation of olfactory circuits in the fly brai… https://t.co/mcoI70PCbh -
RT @Nature: Nature research paper: Structural basis of odorant recognition by a human odorant receptor https://t.co/0K84abMvNO
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RT @AndreasTSchafer: Postdoc opening - develop new staining methods to push X-ray connectomics - great collaboration with @APacureanu… https://t.co/k8YcJVJwv6
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RT @Nature: Research briefing: How an odour molecule activates a human odorant receptor protein https://t.co/Jt3gPfdqU8
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RT @ajlanz2: Check out our new review on olfactory navigation in arthropods (with Theresa Steele and Kathy Nagel). https://t.co/Yymglb2smw
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FUNDING AGENCIES
Odor2Action is supported by the Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience Program, also known as NeuroNex. As part of the BRAIN Initiative, NeuroNex International Networks involve strategic partnerships between the National Science Foundation (NSF), the UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council (UKRI-MRC), and the Fonds de recherche en Santé du Québec (FRQS). Together, these agencies support our international research endeavors to generate a deeper understanding of brain function across species and revolutionize fields from medicine and artificial intelligence.