Lab News
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August 2026
Ainsley Craddock joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Ainsley! She joins us after
completing a Master's in Neuroscience in Don Katz's lab at Brandeis University.
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July 2026
New paper out! Marques ME., Spector AC. and Vincis R.,
Stimulus Temperature Modulates the Psychophysical Dimensions of Salt Taste,
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
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April 2026
Congratulations to Roberto Vincis on being awarded the Ajinomoto Award
by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS).
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March 2026
Congratulations to Audrey Nash, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in the
Department of Mathematics, under the direct supervision of Drs. Needham and Bertram.
We wish you the best for the next phase of your career!
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December 2025
Congratulations to Katherine Odegaard on her NIH T32 Postdoctoral appointment.
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March 2025
New paper out! Odegaard et al.,
Neural Processing of Taste-Related Signals in the Mediodorsal Thalamus of Mice,
Journal of Neuroscience.
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January 2025
New paper out! Nash, Shakeshaft et al.,
Cortical coding of gustatory and thermal signals in active licking mice,
Journal of Physiology.
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June 2024
Mariela Marques, Audrey Nash and Katherine Odegaard
presented their work at the quadrennial ISOT (International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste)
meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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May 2024
Congratulations to Cecilia Bouaichi, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in the
Program in Neuroscience.
We wish you the best for the next phase of your career!
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December 2023
Congratulations to Mariela Marques on being awarded an NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship.
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2023
New paper out! Bouaichi et al.,
Oral thermal processing in the gustatory cortex of awake mice,
Chemical Senses.
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2022
New paper out! Neese et al.,
Active Licking Shapes Cortical Taste Coding,
Journal of Neuroscience.
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2021
New paper out! Samuelsen and Vincis,
Cortical hub for flavor sensation in rodents,
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
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2020
New paper out! Vincis et al.,
Dynamic representation of taste-related decisions in the gustatory insular cortex of mice,
Current Biology.
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2020
New paper out! Bouaichi and Vincis,
Cortical processing of chemosensory and hedonic features of taste in active licking mice,
Journal of Neurophysiology.
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2020
New paper out! Shakeshaft and Vincis,
Bad food memories? It is just a matter of time,
Journal of Physiology.
