The European Chemoreception Research Organization’s (ECRO) yearly conference was in Paris this week, and we made our presence known! Thank you for all the interesting talks, presentations and people we met! Next year, we hope to see all of you at ECRO 2027 in Stockholm!
Chloé Poirier-Blanchet has interned with us during the spring, but now she has to go back and finish her her studies at École normale supérieure. We thank her for all her help in our Sensory spatial navigation projects, teaching us about France, and her dedication and thoroughness in her work.
Our intern Cecilia Salzmann from Zurich University, who have been with us since September is now finishing her stay. She will now continue her work in Zurich and we are sure she will Slay! We are grateful for all the excellent work Cecilia has done for the Lab, and we have appreciated her social and collaborative […]
Dr. Berçem Yar from Mersin University in Turkey visited the lab to talk about our collaborations about research in olfaction and language and odor-triggered autobiographical memories.
Last week Malina Szychowska travelled to Trondheim to visit our collaborator Tora Bonnevie and her research group at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. They discussed progress of the ongoing project and Malina was very happy to receive a lot of inspiring feedback and tips on fMRI data processing and analysis.
We were visited by Professor Jonas Linderoth from Gothenburg University, who shared with us his talk “Concrete, Evidence-Informed Strategies for Better Teaching”. A much appriciated and thought provoking presentation about learning and how to teach in Schools.
Jonas was recently interviewed for a Swedish Public Radio P1 program about deeply meaningful smells, the lasting impact of COVID-19 on the sense of smell, and the global study on smell vocabulary being led by SCI-lab researchers. https://www.sverigesradio.se/
On Mars 9-10, at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Thomas Hörberg held a statistics workshop and a seminar presenting his work on odor and flavor vocabularies in English and other languages.
We welcome our new lab intern Chloé! Chloé is with us on an exchange program for the spring semester. She is a master student from École Normale Supérieure and does the internship as part of the programme.
Thomas Hörberg presented his work on olfactory vocabularies at the higher seminar series of the Department of Swedish and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. Find more info (Swedish) here: 2025-12-22 högre seminarie – nordiska-sprak.