This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports scientific research to investigate the interactions between the gustatory thalamus and gustatory cortex in the neural processing of taste perception and behavior. The $413,123 award, with a project period from September 19, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will be performed by Brandeis...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173), provides $102,528 to Yale University to investigate how temperature impacts olfactory processing in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The award aims to uncover the cellular, synaptic, and circuit-level mechanisms through which dedicated thermosensory processing interacts...
This $541,327 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research investigating how hunger and thirst influence olfactory perception and behavior in mice. The award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029, will leverage genetic approaches to study how hunger and thirst selectively modulate neural circuits responsive to food...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", will fund research to investigate the role of osmolality (fluid concentration) in modulating feeding behavior in fruit flies. The $194,375 grant, awarded on May 1, 2025, supports a 2-year study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The key objectives are to: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $650,049 to Duke University to investigate the mechanisms of odor detection and discrimination in the mouse olfactory system. The project aims to: 1) Examine the structural determinants of odorant receptor (OR) activation and corresponding neural signaling in awake, freely breathing...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research to uncover principles of sensory processing in the olfactory system. The $502,742 award to Duke University will leverage innovative techniques like optogenetics to record from hundreds of neurons in the piriform cortex of awake, head-fixed mice. The research aims to test...
This Project Grant award of $149,804.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders supports research to understand how inhibitory circuits in the olfactory system shape sensory responses. The project aims to delineate the functional organization of inhibitory circuits in the olfactory bulb and how inhibition manifests in neurons that transmit sensory information to higher...
This federal Project Grant award of $702,560 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the NIDCD Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research by Brandeis University and a sub-award to Harvard University on the mechanisms of gustatory receptor (GR) function and ligand recognition in invertebrates. The key goals are to: Probe the mechanisms controlling ligand sensitivity and specificity in the GR43A...
This $380,376 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will support research at Brown University on the convergence of behavioral and sensory information in the olfactory cortex of mice. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine whether behavioral signals in the piriform cortex support predictive processing of odor information, and 2)...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (93.173), will fund research to pinpoint the location and molecular signature of SOX10+ taste bud progenitor cells in von Ebner's glands, and investigate the regulatory role of the SOX10 transcription factor in taste bud cell differentiation. The $377,681 award, effective June 1, 2025 through...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research to investigate how temperature affects the perception of salt taste and its neural processing in the cortex of behaving mice. The total award of $129,142 will support a behavioral study to determine how temperature impacts the ability to discriminate between the taste qualities of sodium chloride (NaCl) and potassium chloride (KCl), as well as electrophysiological investigations into the influence of temperature on the cortical representation of salt taste. This research aims to expand the current understanding of thermogustation and provide a comprehensive behavioral and neural analysis of how temperature shapes sensory processes associated with taste.