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7 members of the Chemosensation laboratory attended the annual meeting of the European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO). They represented the lab in full forces: Victoria, Christoph, Johanna and Moritz successfully presented their projects on posters. Additionally, Victoria, Andres and Moritz organized a symposium called ‚Novel perspectives in mouse olfaction‘, inviting junior group leaders to present their current work. The Spehr lab was represented with a talk in this symposium held by Friederike.
Johanna received a ECRO travel grant to cover for her expenses. Congrats Johanna!

Five members of our group, Jerome Schröer, Lina Kenzler, David Fleck, Michelle Nowara, and Ilian Schröder (from left to right in the photo), attended the European Testis Workshop 2023 (ETW2023). This workshop brought together experts from the fields of reproductive biology and medicine to share their insights.

Four of our participants received funding from the Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI) to cover their travel expenses. Lina Kenzler, Michelle Nowara, Jerome Schröer, and Ilian Schröder were the recipients of this grant, enabling their valuable contributions to the conference.

Lena Terlau, Friederike Seifert, Stefanie Kurth, Melissa Franke, and Marc Spehr attended the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) 2023, which took place in Bonita Springs, Florida. 

Lena received a travel grant from the European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO) that funded her participation. Moreover, at the meeting, Lena won the prestigious AChemS Award for Undergraduate Research for her poster presentation entitled “Insights into Adult Neurogenesis of Vomeronasal Sensory Neurons” Congratulations, Lena!!!

Victoria Switacz, Hannah Tröger, Moritz Nesseler and Friederike Seifert travelled to Göttingen and participated at the 15th Göttingen meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. They all successfully presented great posters.
See you again in 2025, Göttingen!

Friederike came back from a 6-month research stay at Ma lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She learned to do in vivo virus-injections into the accessory olfactory bulb. These injections were used to chemogenetically inhibit Mitral cells during behavioural experiments.

Marc Spehr, Andres Hernandez-Clavijo, Hannah-Lena Tröger, Moritz Nesseler, Lena Terlau and Victoria Switacz participated in the annual meeting of the European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO) 2022—which took place in August in Berlin, Germany. An excellent opportunity to network and meet fellow scientists! See you again in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, for ECRO 2023!

On the annual meeting of the American Society for Andrology (ASA) 2022—which took place in May in La Jolla, California, USA—Lina Kenzler presented her data and was awarded an ASA travel award as well as a travel grant from the Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI).

Zhang Y, Vargas Cifuentes L, Wright K, Bhattarai J, Mohrhardt J, Fleck D, Janke E, Jiang C, Cranfill S, Goldstein N, chreck M, Moberly A, Yu Y, Arenkiel B, Betley J, Luo W, Stegmaier J, Wesson D, Spehr M, Fuccillo M, Ma M (2021) Ventral striatal islands of Calleja neurons control grooming in mice. Nature Neuroscience 24 (12). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-021-00952-z

On the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) 2021 which will take place in December in Saint-Louis, Missouri, USA, Lina Kenzler and Justine Fischoeder will present their respective data in posters as well as in virtual flash talks.

Lina Kenzler was awarded an SSR trainee-travel award. Justine won an SSR trainee-travel award as well and also received travel grants from the Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI) and the Molecular Science & Engineering Profile Area.

David Fleck, Lina Kenzler, Nadine Mundt, Martin Strauch, Naofumi Uesaka, Robert Moosmann, Felicitas Bruentgens, Annika Missel, Artur Mayerhofer, Dorit Merhof, Jennifer Spehr, Marc Spehr (2021) ATP activation of peritubular cells drives testicular sperm transport. eLife 2021;10:e62885.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62885
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