News

July 31, 2008
In lean times, flies can’t survive without their sense of smell
Rockefeller NewsWire

July 25, 2008
Research making sense of the nose and tongue
San Francisco Chronicle

June 2008
Andreas Keller named a postdoctoral finalist for a 2008 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences.

May 27, 2008
Leslie Vosshall named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
HHMI Selects 56 of the Nation's Top Scientists
HHMI bio for Leslie Vosshall

May 26, 2008
Mosquito War: New Chemicals May Beat DEET
National Public Radio, "All Things Considered"

April 15, 2008
Insects use ion channels to smell odors
United Press International

April 14, 2008
Insect Evolution Shakes Things Up
RedOrbit

April 13, 2008
Insects Evolved Radically Different Strategy To Smell
Science Daily
Rockefeller NewsWire

March 18, 2008
The Secret of DEET? It Masks Odors That Usually Attract Bugs
New York Times: Science Times

March 14, 2008
Hiding From Biting Insects in Plain Scent
Science

March 14, 2008
Deciphering DEET
Toronto Globe and Mail

March 14, 2008
Chemicals Like DEET In Bug Spray Work By Masking Human Odors
Science Daily

March 13, 2008
DEET works by masking body odor from bugs
Reuters

March 13, 2008
DEET Blocks Bugs From Smelling Humans as "Food"
National Geographic News

March 13, 2008
DEET Works by Masking Body Odor From Bugs
ABC News

March 13, 2008
Why DEET Bugs Mosquitoes
Study: DEET Blocks Mosquitoes From Smelling The Bait They Crave
CBS News

March 13, 2008
How DEET jams insects' smell sensors
Nature News

March 13, 2008
Bug Spray Discovery Could Lead to Safer Insect Repellents
Voice of America

March 13, 2008
Chemical in bug spray works by masking human odors
Rockefeller NewsWire

March 3, 2008
Kenta Asahina successfully defends his PhD
See photos here.

February 5, 2008
Newly launched study to probe women’s response to male odor
Rockefeller NewsWire

December 31, 2007
Die Kraft der zwei Nasen (The Power of Two Noses)
Stern.de

December 30, 2007
Haaretz (Israel) newspaper article on Louis et al. Nature Neuroscience paper.
Article Haaretz

December 29, 2007
Two 'Noses' Are Necessary For Flies To Navigate Well.
Science Daily

December 23, 2007
New method enables scientists to see smells.
Rockefeller NewsWire

December 21, 2007
Michael Crickmore is selected as the 2008 recipient of the Marco S. Stoffel Fellowship in Mind, Brain and Behavior.

December 14, 2007
Michael Crickmore is selected as a 2008 recipient of the Robert Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship in Brain Circuitry.
Patterson Trust

December 6, 2007
Smell Experience During Critical Period Alters Brain.
Science Daily

December 5, 2007
Smell experience during critical period alters brain.
Rockefeller NewsWire

December 2007
Dirty Pretty Things. For a rebellious generation of perfumers, smelling subtly sexy is hardly the point--they want us to smell like the deed itself.
Elle, December 2007 issue. pp. 264ff.

December 2007
Losing Scents. A pheromone-gene link raises questions about the decline of nasal know-how.
Scientific American

November 18, 2007
Pictures of the New York Academy of Sciences 'Science and the City' Benefit
New York Times

November 12, 2007
Leslie Vosshall named one of the winners of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists 2007
New York Academy of Sciences
Event photos

November 7, 2007
Kenta Asahina accepts a postdoctoral position at Caltech in David Anderson's lab, to begin in the summer of 2008.

October 17, 2007
Accessory protein determines whether pheromones are detected
Rockefeller NewsWire

September 27, 2007
Scent of a man.
ScienCentral

September 27, 2007
"Stop, hey, what's that smell?" bloggers ask.
The Duke Chronicle

September 20, 2007
Sweaty or sweet - it depends on your genes.
Nature Podcast

September 19, 2007
The Smell Of Sweaty Guys: Whether a man smells sweet or stinky is in the odorant receptor of the beholder.
Chemical & Engineering News

September 18, 2007
Smell Test: What Women Like About Male Sweat. And Why.
Newsweek.com

September 16, 2007
Beauty is in the nose of the beholder
News@nature.com

September 16, 2007
Research Links Smelling Differences to Gene
National Public Radio All Things Considered

September 16, 2007
Man's Scent Depends on Woman's Perception
LiveScience.Com

September 16, 2007
Stinky? It's not his sweat, it's your nose
Scientific American.Com

September 16, 2007
Gene determines whether male body odor smells pleasant
Rockefeller NewsWire

June 28, 2007
Leslie Vosshall named a finalist for a 2007 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences.

June 21, 2007
Maurizio Pellegrino named David Rockefeller Graduate Fellow at the 2007 Convocation Ceremony.

May 1, 2007
Matthieu Louis accepts a Junior Group Leader position in the Systems Biology Programme of the EMBL/Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain.

March 24, 2007
Mosquitoes target exhaled breath
BBC News

March 23, 2007
Humans, flies smell alike, neurobiologists find
Rockefeller NewsWire

January 10, 2007
All the Sensitive Noses Show Just How a City Has Changed
New York Times

January 4, 2007
Making the paper: Leslie Vosshall
Researchers work towards throwing mosquitoes off the scent
Nature

December 21, 2006
Nature PodCast: Insect Chemoreception
Nature

December 15, 2006
CO2-Hating Flies Betray CO2-Loving Mosquitoes: New discovery may lead to better bug repellant
Scientific American.com

December 13, 2006
Identification of carbon dioxide receptors in insects may help fight infectious disease
Rockefeller NewsWire

December 5, 2006
Walt Jones successfully defends his PhD.
See photos here.

November 15, 2006
Richard Benton accepts an Assistant Professor position at the Center for Integrative Genomics at the Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland.

October 6, 2006
Pearl Goldwasser and family celebrate the birth of her first child.

April 27, 2006
Matthieu Louis receives a 2006-2008 Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences.

March 30, 2006
Mathias Ditzen receives a 2006-2007 Henry and Marie Josee Kravis Postdoctoral Fellowship.

March 22, 2006
Elane Fishilevich defends her PhD thesis.
See photos here.

March 15, 2006
Leslie Vosshall is promoted to Associate Professor.

February 15, 2006
Takao Nakagawa awarded prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
http://www.jsps.go.jp/

January 20, 2006
Study shows a fundamental difference between how insects, mammals detect odors
Rockefeller NewsWire

January 9, 2006
Three Rockefeller scientists receive 2005 Mayor's awards
Rockefeller NewsWire
pdf: http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/vosshall/pdf/mayoraward_science_technology.pdf
video: http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2006a/media/pc010906-awards.asx

December 21, 2005
Watching fruit fly larvae crawl towards odors provides clues to how smells are detected
Rockefeller NewsWire

September 9, 2005
In flies, odorant receptors work together
Rockefeller NewsWire

July 2005
Outsmarting Olfaction: The Next Generation of Mosquito Repellents
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 113, Number 7, July 2005
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/vosshall/ehp0113-a00468.pdf

June 28, 2005
Collaboration with Axel Lab at Columbia University receives a grant offer from the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative to develop novel insect repellents in the fight against malaria.
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/vosshall/pdf/cumcColumbia.pdf
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/vosshall/pdf/gcgh.pdf

May 25, 2005
Ana Isabel Domingos defends her PhD thesis at the University of Lisbon in Portugal.
See photos here.

February 22, 2005
Don't stop and smell the roses "Blinding" an insect's sense of smell may be the best repellent, according to research by Rockefeller University scientist
http://runews.rockefeller.edu/?page=engine&id=215

January 2005
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Mourns The Loss of Dr. Maclyn McCarty - McCarty Fellowship Awarded In Memory
http://www.hhwf.org/HTMLSrc/News_01_2005.html

September 2, 2004
Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents Repellents that block gene might help fight malaria and other infectious diseases
http://runews.rockefeller.edu/index.php?page=engine&id=35

March 29, 2004
RADICAL THEORY OF SMELL CHALLENGED Human study fails to support controversial theory’s predictions
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8213/8213notw8.html

March 22, 2004
Rockefeller University scientists take on controversial and widely publicized "vibration theory" of smell
http://runews.rockefeller.edu/index.php?page=engine&id=53

June 12, 2003
TILL Photonics Technology Award to Dr. Sachse at the G?tingen Neurobiology Conference
http://www.till-photonics.com/news/press/press09.html

August 2002
Teachers, Students and Researchers Work Side-by-Side at Rockefeller University
http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2002/aug02/htmls/meda_rockefeller.html

June 26, 2002
2001 Presidential Early Career Awards Announced
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020626-3.html

February 23, 2001
An Alumna Sets Up Lab
http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/news_notes/022301/022301c.html