The sense of smell: from an overlooked research field to new approaches

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• Chloe Guillaume
• Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:10-14:00
• Richard King room, Darwin College.

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For a long time, olfaction – the sense of smell – has been overlooked in research, mainly due to the difficulties of analysing odours… a volatile and changing set of molecules whose perception is often subjective. However, with growing interest in this sense over the last 50 years (and even more so after the covid crisis) we now have some understanding of the biological processes involved in olfaction. Today, the discovery of one biological phenomenon in particular is driving the olfactory community: regeneration. Unlike other parts of the brain, the olfactory system sees continuous generation of new neurons throughout life. The role of these neurons is still not fully understood and is the subject of research in our laboratory.

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