2nd FLAVOURsome Advanced Training School: Chemosensation! Taste! 

2nd FLAVOURsome Advanced Training School: Chemosensation! Taste! 

9th 11th April, Dresden (Germany)
Organizer: Thommas Hummel

Aim: Get knowledge and first-hand experience in the physiology, pathophysiology, brain integration and language of the chemoreception.

Lecturers and trainers: Charles Spence (University of Oxford, UK); Thierry Thomas-Danguin, (INRAe, Dijon, France); Thomas Höberg, (Stockholm University, Sweden); Yalda Moayedi (NYU College of Dentistry, USA ), Melania Melis, (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)
Local organizer team: Mariano Mastinu, Antje Hähner, Coralie Mignot, Kwangsu Kim, Kristina Hernandez, Susanne Weise, Yling Mai, Zetian Li, Shubin Li, Martin Witt, Janine Gellrich, and Thommas Hummel

Location: Smell & Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, ‘‘Technische Universität Dresden’’, (Dresden, Germany)
Social dinner location: Genussatelier (https://www.genuss-atelier.net/en/), Bautzner Str. 149, Dresden (costs per person 65 Euro, not covering drinks)

preliminary program

April 9, 2025
10:30 – 11:00
Registration & Welcome desk
11:00 – 12:00
Welcome Session – paticipants’ presentation
12:00 – 13:00
Why smell and taste?
Thomas Hummel, TU Dresden
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00
ANATOMY
Martin Witt, TU Dresden
15:00 – 17:00
EATING
Charles Spence, University of Oxford
18:00 – 19:00
Historical Dresden
Walking guided tour through Dresden city center
19:00 –
Dresden-Neustadt experience
April 10, 2025
8:30 – 10:30
TASTE BUDS
Yalda Moayedi, NYU College of Dentistry
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
Thomas Höberg, Stockholm University
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30
GENETICS OF TASTE
Melania Melis, Cagliari University
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00
Smell & Taste Clinic – Open lab
Susanne Weise, Zetian Li, Coralie Mignot, Mariano Mastinu, Tin Hernandez
19:30
Social dinner at Genussatelier
April 11, 2025
8:30 – 10:30
TASTE-ODOR INTERACTION
Thierry Thomas-Danguin, INRAe, Dijon
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00
Taste and other orosensory perception
Mariano Mastinu, TU Dresden
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00
Odor memories
Kwangsu Kim, TU Dresden
14:00 – 14:30
Trigeminal function
Yiling Mai, TU Dresden
14:30 – 15:00
Brain activation
Coralie Mignot, TU Dresden
15:00 – 15:30
Nose and mouth
Tin Hernandez, TU Dresden
17:00 – 18:30
Aromabar SLUB Dresden

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FUNDING

This event is part of the activities of the COST Action FLAVOURsome, CA22161, which is supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

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