Thomas F. O’Connell

Low-dimensional olfactory signatures of fruit ripening and fermentation

The paper identifies a low-dimensional hyperbolic map of fruit odor mixtures across ripening and fermentation stages, revealing spiral trajectories influenced by microbial processes.

Restructuring of olfactory representations in the fly brain around odor relationships in natural sources

The paper examines how odor representations change across layers of the fly olfactory circuit, finding significant restructuring in the mushroom body that correlates with natural odor distribution patterns.

Early life experience with natural odors modifies olfactory behavior through an associative process

This study shows that early life exposure to natural odors increases attraction to familiar odors and decreases aversion to naturally aversive ones through an associative process.