The NSF awarded the Mathew lab $750,000 to study how hunger shapes smell-related decision-making in insects. Mathew and his lab study the larvae of Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit ...
This study demonstrates that plant and fruit volatiles can be organized according to a low-dimensional hyperbolic map, and that within this map exist trajectories that correspond to important ...
“Their program was trained by feeding the model thousands of descriptions of molecular structures from fragrance catalogs, along with smell labels for each — terms such as ‘beefy ... that allows ...
These findings challenge a long-standing dogma in the field and suggest that different types of receptors, that is, olfactory and ionotropic receptors, can be co-expressed in the same chemosensory ...