Featured Papers

  • Tootoonian et al., 2025 - PLOS ONE

  • Dennler, van Schaik, & Schmuker, 2024 - Nature Machine Intelligence

  • de March et al., 2024 - Nature

  • Basu & Nagel, 2024 - Trends in Neurosciences

  • Ouyang et al., 2024 - Journal of Theoretical Biology

  • Mahoney, Hosler, & Smith, 2024 - Learning & Memory

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Tootoonian, S., True, A., Stark, E., Crimaldi, J., Schafer, A. (2025). Quantifying spectral information about source separation in multisource odour plumes. PLOS ONE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297754

 

Dennler, N., van Schaik, A., Schmuker, M. (2024). Limitations in odour recognition and generalization in a neuromorphic olfactory circuit. Nature Machine Intelligence. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00952-1

 

de March, C.A., Ning, M., Billesbølle, C.B., Tewari, J., Llinas del Torrent, C., van der Velden, W.J.C., Ojiro, I., Takayama, I., Faust, B., Li, L., Vaidehi, N., Manglik, A., Matsunami, H. (2024). Engineered odorant receptors illuminate the basis of odour discrimination. Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08126-0

 

Basu, J, and Nagel, K.I. (2024). Neural circuits for goal-directed navigation across species. Trends in Neurosciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2024.09.005

 

Ouyang, B., True, A., Crimaldi, J. Ermentrout, B. (2024). Simple olfactory navigation algorithms in air and water. J Theoretical Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111941

 

Schoepe, T., Drix, D., Schüffny, F.M., Miko, R., Sutton, S., Chicca, E., Schmuker, M. (2024). Odour Localization in Neuromorphic Systems. IEEE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS58744.2024.10558186

 

Dennler, N., Drix, D., Warner, T.P.A., Rastogi, S., Della Casa, C., Ackels, T., Schaefer, A.T., can Schaik, A., Schmuker, M. (2024). High-speed odour sensing using miniaturised electronic nose. Science Advances. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1764

 

Mahoney, S., Holser, J., Smith, B.H. (2024). Reinforcement expectation in the honeybee (Apis mellifera): Can downshifts in reinforcement show conditioned inhibition?. Learning & Memory. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053915.124

 

Azzopardi, S.A., Lu, H-Y., Monette, S., Rabinowitsch, A.I., Salmon, J.E., Matsunami, H., Blobel, C.P. (2024). Role of iRhom2 in Olfaction: Implications for Odorant Receptor Regulation and Activity-Dependent Adaptation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25116079

 

Dasgupta, D., Schneider-Luftman, D., Schaefer, A., Harris, J.J. (2024). Wireless monitoring of respiration with EEG reveals relationships between respiration, behaviour and brain activity in freely moving mice. J Neurophysiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00330.2023

 

Morrison, K., Degaratu, A., Itskov, V., Caruto, C. (2024). Diversity of emergent dynamics in competitive threshold-linear networks. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/22M1541666

 

Gumaste, A., Baker, K.L., Izydorczak, M., True, A.C., Vasan, G., Crimaldi, J.P., Verhagen, J.V. (2024). Behavioral discrimination and olfactory bulb encoding of odor plume intermittency. eLife DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85303

 

Latshaw, J.S., Mazade, R.E., Petersen, M., Mustard, J.A., Sinakevitch, I., Wissler, L., Guo, Z., Cook, C.N., Lei, H., Gad, J. and Smith, B.H. (2022). Tyramine and its AmTYRI receptor modulate attention in honey bees (Apis mellifera). eLife DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83348

 

Billesbølle, C.B., de March, C.A., van der Velden, W.J.C. et al. (2023). Structural basis of odorant recognition by a human odorant receptor. Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05798-y

 

Verhagen., J.V., Baker, K.L., Vasan, G., Pieribone, V.A., and Rolls. E.T. (2023). Odor encoding by signals in the olfactory bulb. Journal of Neurophysiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00449.2022

 

Steele, T.J., Lanz, A.J., and Nagel, K.I. (2023). Olfactory navigation in arthropods. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01611-9

 

Zhang, H., Rich, P.D., Lee, A.K., and Sharpee, T.O. (2022). Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience. Nature Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01212-4

 

Ghaninia, M., Zhou, Y., Knauer, A.C., Schiestl, F.P., Sharpee, T.O., and Smith, B.H. (2022). Hyperbolic odorant mixtures as a basis for more efficient signaling between flowering plants and bees. Plos One. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270358

 

Patel, M., Kulkarni, N., Lei, H.H., Lai, K., Nematova, O., Wei, K., and Lei, H. (2022) Experimental and theoretical probe on mechano- and chemosensory integration in the insect antennal lobe. Frontiers in Physiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.1004124

 

Zocchi, D., Ye, E.S., Hauser, V., O’Connell, T.F., and Hong, E.J. (2022). Parallel encoding of CO2 in attractive and aversive glomeruli by selective lateral signaling between olfactory afferents. Current Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.025

 

Zhu. K.W., Burton, S.D., Nagai, M.H., Silverman, J.D., de March, C.A., Wachowiak, M., and Matsunami, H. (2022). Decoding the olfactory map through targeted transcriptomics links murine olfactory receptors to glomeruli. Nature Communications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32267-3

 

Matheson, A.M.M., Lanz, A.J., Medina, A.M., Licata, A.M., Currier, T.A., Syed, M.H., and Nagel, K.I. (2022). A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation. Nature Communications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32247-7

 

Burton, S.D., Brown, A., Eiting, T.P., Youngstrom, I.A., Rust, T.C., Schmuker, M., and Wachowiak, M. (2022). Mapping odorant sensitivities reveals a sparse but structured representation of olfactory chemical space by sensory input to the mouse olfactory bulb. eLife. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80470

 

True, A.C. and Crimaldi, J.P. (2022). Distortion of passive scalar structure during suction-based plume sampling. Sensors and Actuators B.: Chemical. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2022.132018

 

Dasgupta, D., Warner, T.P.A., Erskine, A., and Schaefer, A.T. (2022). Coupling of mouse olfactory bulb projection neurons to fluctuating odour pulses. Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1422-21.2022

 

Dennler, N., Rastogi, S., Fonollosa, J., van Schaik, A., and Schmuker, M. (2022). Drift in a Popular Metal Oxide Sensor Dataset Reveals Limitations for Gas Classification Benchmarks. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2022.131668

 

Lei, H., Haney, S., Jernigan, C., Guo, X.J., Cook, C.N., Bazhenov, M., and Smith, B.H. (2022). Novelty detection in early olfactory processing of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. PLOS ONE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265009

 

Wu, MC., and Itskov, V. (2022). A topological approach to inferring the intrinsic dimension of convex sensing data. J Appl. and Comput. Topology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41468-021-00081-3

 

Tuckman., H., Patel, M., and Lei, H. (2021). Effects of Mechanosensory Input on the Tracking of Pulsatile Odor Stimuli by Moth Antennal Lobe Neurons. Frontiers in Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.739730

 

Crimaldi, J., Lei, H., Schaefer, A., Schmuker, M., Smith, B.H., True, A.C., Verhagen, J.V., and Victor, J.D. (2021). Active sensing in a dynamic olfactory world. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-021-00798-1

 

Hsu, W-M.M., Kastner, D.B., Baccus, S.A., and Sharpee, T.O. (2021). How inhibitory neurons increase information transmission under threshold modulation. Cell Reports. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109158

 

Ackels, T., Erskine, A., Dasgupta, D., Marin A.C., Warner, T.P.A., Tootoonian, S., Fukunaga, I., Harris, J.J., and Schaefer, A.T. (2021) Fast odour dynamics are encoded in the olfactory system and guide behaviour. Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03514-2

 

Zhou, Y. and Sharpee, T.O. (2021). Hyperbolic geometry of gene expression. iScience, 24(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102225.

 

Riman, N., Victor, J.D., Boie, S.D., and Ermentrout, B. (2021). The dynamics of bilateral olfactory search and navigation. SIAM Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1265934

 

Drix, D., and Schmuker, M. (2021). Resolving fast gas transients with metal oxide sensors. ACS Sensors, 6(3), 688-692. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c02006.

 

Marin, A.C., Schaefer, A.T, and Ackels, T. (2021). Spatial information from the odour environment in mammalian olfaction. Cell and Tissue Research, 383, 473-483. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-020-03395-3.

 

Currier, T.A., Matheson, A.M.M., and Nagel, K.I. (2020). Encoding and control of orientation to airflow by a set of Drosophila fan-shaped body neurons. eLife, 9:e61510. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61510

 

Gumaste, A., Coronas-Samano, G., Hengenius J., Axman, R., Connor, E.G., Baker, K.L., Ermentrout, B., Crimaldi, J.P., and Verhagen, J.V. (2020). A comparison between mouse, in silico, and robot odor plume navigation reveals advantages of mouse odor tracking. eNeuro, 7(1):ENEURO.0212-19.2019. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0212-19.2019

 

Obaid, A.M., Hanna, M-E.S., Wu Y-E., Kollo M., ...., Schaefer A.T., Melosh N.A. (2020).
Massively Parallel Microwire Arrays Integrated with CMOS chips for Neural Recording. Science Advances, 12:eaay2789.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2789

 

Bennett, M.M., Cook, C.N., Smith, B.H., and Lei, H. (2020). Early olfactory, but not gustatory processing, is affected by the selection of heritable cognitive phenotypes in honey bee. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-020-01451-5

 

Preprints


Kathman, N.D., Lanz, A.J., Free, J.D., Nagel, K.I. (2024). Neural dynamics for working memory and evidence integration during olfactory navigation in Drosophila. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.05.616803

 

Victor, J.D., Aguilar, G., Waraich, S.A. (2024). Ordinal Characterization of Similarity Judgments. aRxiv. DOI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07543

 

Zhou, Y., O’Connell, T.F., Ghaninia, M., Smith, B.H., Hong, E.J., Sharpee, T.O. (2024). Low-dimensional olfactory signatures of fruit ripening and fermentation. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.16.599229v1

 

Miko, R., Scheunemannm M., Steuber, V., Schmuker, M. (2024). Decoding the amplitude and slope of continuous signals into spikes with a spiking point neuron model. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.20.594931

 

Warner, T.A., Tootoonian, S., Schafer, A.T. (2024). Robust encoding of sub-sniff temporal information in the mouse olfactory bulb. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.26.586830v2.full

 

Gattuso, H., Nuñez, K., de la Rea, B., Ermentrout, B., Victor, J.D., and Nagel, K.I. (2024). Inhibitory control of locomotor statistics in walking Drosophila. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.15.589655

 

Ouyang, B., True, A.C., Crimaldi, J.P., and Ermentrout, B. (2023). Quantifying spectral information about source separation in multisource odour plumes. preprint on SSRN. DOI: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4699132

 

Tootoonian, S., True, A.C., Crimaldi, J.P., and Schaefer A. (2023). Quantifying spectral information about source separation in multisource odour plumes. bioRxiv. DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.14.575605v1.abstract

 

Victor, J.D., Aguilar, G., and Waraich, S. (2023). Wireless monitoring of respiration with EEG reveals relationships between respiration, behaviour and brain activity in freely moving mice. arXiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.07543

 

Dasgupta, D., Schneider-Luftman, D., Schaefer, A., and Harris, J. J. (2023). Wireless monitoring of respiration with EEG reveals relationships between respiration, behaviour and brain activity in freely moving mice. bioRxiv. DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.19.544346v1.full

 

Dylla, K.V., O’Connell, T.F., and Hong, E.J. (2023). Early life experience with natural odors modifies olfactory behavior through an associative process. bioRxiv. DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.08.523155v1.abstract

 

Yang, J-I., O’Connell, T.F., Hsu, W-M.M., Bauer, M.S., Dylla, K.V., Sharpee, T.O., and Hong, E.J. (2023). Restructuring of olfactory representations in the fly brain around odor relationships in natural sources. bioRxiv. DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.15.528627v2

 

Milicevic, N. and Itskov, V.I. (2023). The combinatorial code and the graph rules of Dale networks. arXiv. DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08618

 

Vihani, A., Nagai, M.H., Juan, C., de March, C.A., Hu, X.S., Pearson, J., and Matsunami, H. (2021). Encoding of odors by mammalian olfactory receptors. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.27.474279