Organization:Association for Chemoreception Sciences

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Short description: International chemosensory science learned society
Association for Chemoreception Sciences
HeadquartersGlenview, IL, U.S.
Membership
600
President
Paul Breslin[1] (2023–2024)
Websiteachems.org

The Association for Chemoreception Sciences is an international professional society in the field of chemosensory science. It is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote and advance the interests of the science of senses such as taste and smell.[2]:32 In order to do this, it holds an annual meeting that is a scientific forum[3] for the research community[4][5] and also provides outreach to the public about olfaction (smell), gustation (taste) and chemesthesis (trigeminal chemosensation).

The association was founded in 1978 by Maxwell M. Mozell, a neuroscientist at the State University of New York, with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation.[2]:31 The first research meeting was held in Sarasota, Florida, in April 1979.[6] Officers elected at the first meeting included Linda Bartoshuk, Rose Marie Pangborn and Gary Beauchamp.[7]

A meeting is held in April of each year that is attended by an international cohort of physicians and scientists.[2]:31 This annual meeting consists of presentations on olfaction, gustation, and chemesthesis, as well as workshops sponsored by the National Institute of Health.[8] Commercial exhibitors also attend the event.[9] The organization has enjoyed strong support from the National Institute on Deafness and Communicative Disorders.[10] and its director.[11] In collaboration with two other scientific societies focused on the chemical senses – the European Chemosensory Research Organization and the Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell – AChemS alternates as host of the quadrennial International Symposium for Olfaction and Taste. The last AChemS-hosted ISOT meeting took place in Portland, Oregon in August, 2020.[12]

In 2004, AChemS member Linda Buck and Richard Axel were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system".[13] To celebrate this honor, at the 2005 AChemS annual meeting, Buck and Axel were keynote speakers,[14] recapping their research published in the journal Cell in 1991,[15] which led to the Nobel award.

Chemical Senses, the official journal of the association, is published by Oxford University Press. The editor is Dr. Steven Munger; it was edited by Maxwell Mozell from 1992 until 1998.[2]:32

The Association gives a series of annual awards, including the Max Mozell Award, the Barry Jacobs Memorial Award,[16] the Ajinomoto Award,[17] and the Polak Young Investigator Award.[18] Travel awards are also given to diverse and young scientists to encourage their attendance at the meeting.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Current officers. Association for Chemoreception Sciences. Accessed March 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Jennifer L. Hellier (2017). The Five Senses and Beyond: The Encyclopedia of Perception. Santa Barbara, California; Denver, Colorado: Greenwood. ISBN:9781440834172.
  3. ↑ "Center for Smell and Taste » News Briefs" (in en-US). http://cst.ufl.edu/tag/news-briefs. 
  4. ↑ "29 Sep 1979, 127 – The Gazette at Newspapers.com" (in en). Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/image/422198417. 
  5. ↑ "21 Apr 2016 – Fifth Sense's Duncan Boak At AChemS 2016 Meeting". 20 April 2016. http://www.fifthsense.org.uk/fifth-senses-duncan-boak-at-achems-2016-meeting-blog-post-1/. 
  6. ↑ Mozell, Maxwell M. (1998). "Achems: The Beginning". Chemical Senses 23 (6): 721–733. doi:10.1093/chemse/23.6.721. PMID 9915119. 
  7. ↑ History of ACHEMS Officers. [Association for Chemoreception Sciences]. Archived 20 December 2016.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Donald A.; Baker, Harriet; Brunjes, Peter; Gilbertson, Timothy A.; Hermer, Linda; Hill, David L.; Matsunami, Hiroaki; Meredith, Michael et al. (2009). "Chemoreception Scientists Gather under the Florida Sun: The 31st Annual Association for Chemoreception Sciences Meeting". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1170 (Suppl 1): 1–11. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05047.x. ISSN 0077-8923. PMID 19712224. Bibcode: 2009NYASA1170....1W. 
  9. ↑ "General news: Preparations for "AChemS Association for Chemoreception Sciences Exhibition" in Florida - Tobacco industry, Medical devices & Prototype construction" (in en). https://www.burghart-mt.de/en/news/news-detail/general-news-preparations-for-achems-association-for-chemoreception-sciences-exhibition-in-florida.html. 
  10. ↑ "Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS)" (in en). NIDCD. 2017-02-17. https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/directory/association-chemoreception-sciences-achems. 
  11. ↑ "National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)" (in en). National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2015-07-09. https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/national-institute-deafness-other-communication-disorders-nidcd#director. 
  12. ↑ Finger, Thomas (2009). "International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1170: 1–749. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04927.x. PMID 19686096. 
  13. ↑ "Nobel Award". https://www.hhmi.org/news/richard-axel-and-linda-buck-awarded-2004-nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine. 
  14. ↑ "AChemS 2005 Newsletter". http://achems.org/web/newsletters/Winter2005Newsletter.pdf. 
  15. ↑ Buck, Linda (1991). "A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition". Cell 65 (1): 175–187. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90418-X. PMID 1840504. 
  16. ↑ "Food Science professor wins national award for research excellence | Penn State University" (in en). https://news.psu.edu/story/407993/2016/05/02/academics/food-science-professor-wins-national-award-research-excellence. 
  17. ↑ "Oka Receives Young Investigator Award | Caltech" (in en). The California Institute of Technology. http://www.caltech.edu/news/oka-receives-young-investigator-award-81795. 
  18. ↑ "Neurobiology and Behavior | Stony Brook University School of Medicine" (in en). https://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/neurobiology. 
  19. ↑ "News Highlights | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs" (in en). https://opda.fsu.edu/news/news-highlights. 

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