Day 1 | Thursday | October 20th

Opening Session | 09:00-10:00 EDT

• Opening remarks by Dr. Andreas Mershin

• “Scalable Presence: The Multi-sensory Nature of Future Media” keynote by Prof. Joe Paradiso

Session 1 | 10:00-10:55 EDT

• “Olfaction and Neuroimmunity” - Dr. Simmie Foster, MD PhD

• “Predicting Infection in Surgical Wounds: Can We Use Olfaction?” - Dr. Richard Ribon Fletcher

• “Measuring Smell and Taste to Guide Product Development” - Dr. Ilya Kolb, Aromyx

• “Smell label predictions with eNose, IMS and GCMS/LCMS based models in 2 different industry use-cases” - Lucas Lopez, Volatile AI

Session 2 | 11:00-11:55 EDT

• “Visualizing Smell: Impact on Patient Experience, Cognition, and Quality of Life” - Dr. Stella Lee, MD

• “Measuring Olfaction in the age of COVID: a new syndrome requires new tools” - Dr. Lora Bankova, MD

• “Life with Anosmia” - Tara Scudder

• Panel discussion with Dr. Stella Lee, Dr. Lora Bankova, Ilya Kolb, Dr. Simmie Foster, and Tara Scudder - lead by Dr. Andreas Mershin

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

Session 3 | 13:30-14:25 EDT

• Biosecurity and the context of olfaction - introduction by Karolina Sulich

• “Security & Privacy in Processing & analyzing VOCs” - Wojtek Kudlaszyk, A4BEE

• Effective Ventures - Shrestha Rath

• In conversation: Dr. Andreas Mershin, Nikhil Lal, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Karolina Sulich, Wojtek Kudlaszyk, Shrestha Rath, Mia Bonardi

Session 4 | 14:25-14:55 EDT

• “Fluidic Remembrance'“ - Kristin Weisenberger

• “Aroma-active Biomaterials For Design and Architecture” - Vlasta Kubusova

• “Odor Organ: Device Design for Olfactory Education” - M Dougherty

Session 5 | 15:00-16:15 EDT

• “Why we need a non-biomarker multi-cancer diagnostic” Konstantinos Papakonstantinou

• “Bodily Leakiness and Horrific Oozing” -Lyndsey Walsh

• “Engineering binding proteins for continuous monitoring” - Anand Muthusamy

• “Importance of early detection” - Dr. Adam Feldman

• “Biosensing with olfactory receptors'' - "the obstacle is the way" - Dr. Andrew Králíček

• “From earth with love: smells and touches in off-planet architecture” - Chris Mauer, Red House Studio

• Conversation : Chris Mauer, Carolyn Cameron-Kirksmith, Luisa Apolaya Torres, Irena Martinez, Karolina Sulich, Dr. Andreas Mershin, Dimitrios Ioannidis

• “Correlating infrared spectra with olfactory bulb images of odorants” - Prof. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Day 2 | Friday | October 21st

Opening Session | 09:00-10:00 EDT

• “Personal Olfactory Interfaces for Health and Wellbeing” - keynote by Prof. Pattie Maes

• “Scents in the drought” - Prof. Cecília Roque

Moot Court Competition | 10:00-12:00 EDT

• Introduction to Moot Court competition

• Moot Court Bench Memo

• Participating judges: Honorable Thomas S. Kaplanes, Judge in the Boston Municipal Court of Massachusetts | Prof. Anthony Daimsis | Dionisio Antonio Mulone, Attorney in Argentina | Dr. Michail Bletsas, MIT | Theo Brothers, JD Candidate Suffolk University Law School | Mia Bonardi, Clerk | Michela De Buisson- Moot Advocate | Frèderic Simon Augustyn, Moot Advocate | Julieta Rojas Ponce, Moot Advocate | Christina Kazazaeva, Moot Advocate

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

Keynote Talk | 13:30 - 14:30 EDT

• “When Particles Make Drugs & Vaccines Work - From Treating tumors to a Covid-19 Vaccine” - Prof. Bob Langer

Session 3 | 14:30 - 15:30 EDT

• “Analyzing and visualizing colorful smells” - Dr. Tristan Rousselle, Aryballe

• “Wide spectrum Volatile Signature Detection” - Eivind Jülke Røer , Tunable

• “Odor Collection System” - Phil Sharazen and Stephanie Brener

• “Using Volatile Organic Compounds to Predict Epileptic Seizures” - Derek Vastola and Mukesh Loganathan

• “Human-centered design: Making the leap from the lab to the real world” - Irena Martinez

• “Flatten the Curve“ - Rahoul Mehra

• “Olfaction the New Frontier” - Nikhil Lal

• “Memory Fragments” - Yingci Rebecca Zhong - movie and short presentation

Session 4 | 15:30 -16:30 EDT

• “Single-cell dissection of human disease circuitry: Cognition, Metabolism, Neurodegeneration” - keynote by Prof. Manolis Kellis

Closing Remarks | 16:30 EDT

• “Curiosity-driven Research: The QTY Code for Protein Design” - Dr. Shuguang Zhang

Day 3 | Saturday | October 22nd

Opening session | 09:00 - 11:00 EDT

• “Medical detection dogs” - keynote by Dr. Claire Guest

• ”Clinical Assessment of Olfaction: The Elephant in the Room” - Dr. Katie Whitcroft

• “Hear you Now Me” - Julia Newell

• “Learning from Nature” - Prof. Chris Rose

Ending remarks | 11:00-11:15  EDT
End of the conference.

Lab Tour | 11:15 - 11:45 EDT with Dr. Andreas Mershin

Workshop | 11:45-12:45 EDT - “Making sense of scent” class on olfaction with Dr. Andreas Mershin

Lab Tour with Students | 12:45 - 13:15 EDT with Dr. Andreas Mershin

Visit to the MIT Museum