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October 25, 2013
“Ninety-Six Wells of Flies on a Plate” about the recent Gasque et al. drug screening paper
Drug Discovery & Development

September 26, 2013
Leslie Vosshall quoted in an article about scent branding
Daily News

September 24, 2013
Leslie Vosshall TedX Leuven Salon talk about mosquito attraction is live
YouTube

September 22, 2013
Leslie Vosshall quoted in an article about insect repellents
Seattle Times

September 11, 2013
Emily Dennis is featured in BkSciArt’s Science and Art Salon
ArtLab

August 21, 2013
Barbara Ghelardi is honored for 5 years of service with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Photo

July 1, 2013
Laura Duvall is the sole winner of the first postdoctoral fellowship from the American Philosophical Society
APS

July 1, 2013
Jeff Liesch successfully defends his PhD.
Flickr

June 5, 2013
Emily Dennis passes her thesis research proposal examination. Congratulations Emily!

June 3, 2013
New York Times Observatory writer Douglas Quenqua covers our work: “A Mosquito That Won’t Ruin a Barbecue”
New York Times

June 3, 2013
First author Matt DeGennaro blogs about our Nature paper “Mutant Mosquito Solves Mysteries of Attraction and Repulsion”
Rockefeller Incubator Blog

May 31, 2013
Mosquitoes With Altered Smell Gene Lose Preference For Humans
Medical News Today

May 31, 2013
Scientists are making people ‘invisible’ to mosquitoes
GMA News Online

May 30, 2013
Leslie Vosshall interviewed on the orco mosquito paper by BBC World Service News Hour
BBC

May 30, 2013
Study: mutant mosquitoes lose sense of smell (and lust for human flesh)
Wired

May 30, 2013
Genetically-engineered mosquitoes lose nose for humans
Times of India

May 30, 2013
Genetic Bug Spray? Scientists Alter Mosquitoes’ Sense of Smell
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

May 30, 2013
Modified mozzies no longer prefer humans
ABC Science (Australia)

May 29, 2013
Mutant Mosquitoes Lose Ability to Sniff Out Humans
Live Science

May 29, 2013
Genetic Engineering Alters Mosquitoes’ Sense of Smell
HHMI

January 28, 2013
Leslie Vosshall and Richard Axel quoted on Luca Turin’s latest vibrational effort
BBC

January 22, 2013
Laura Duvall is awarded a Rockefeller University Women & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

October 20, 2012
Check out Andreas Keller’s excellent blog about the science and philosophy of smell and olfactory art
Square Space

October 19, 2012
Orion Despo, our 2012 summer student, is named a 2012 Siemens Competition semi-finalist!
Siemens Foundation

September 2012
Leslie Vosshall interviewed in Current Biology Q&A
Current Biology

September 2012
Leslie Vosshall profiled in HHMI Fall 2012 Bulletin
HHMI

July 1, 2012
Lindsay Bellani and Leslie Vosshall featured on CBS Sunday Morning, “Waging a losing war against mosquitoes”
CBS News

July 1, 2012
Leslie Vosshall interviewed, “Sweet Smell of Success” by Karen Hopkin
The Scientist

June 2012
Nine members of the Vosshall Lab travel to Stockholm for the 2012 ISOT meeting
Flickr

June 9-10, 2012
Andreas Keller designs a roving olfactory art project on Governor’s Island: “Smellscapes”
Figment Project

June 2012
Leslie Vosshall quoted in an article about perfumes, “Fragrance by design” by Stephanie Epiro
Elle Canada

May 20, 2012
Leslie Vosshall quoted in an article on mosquitoes, “Out for Blood: Will this be the worst mosquito summer ever? DEET never smelled so good” by Robert Sullivan
New York Magazine

May 14, 2012
Sha-har Admoni is selected for a prestigious HHMI Medical Research Fellowship and joins the lab in July 2012
HHMI News

May 10, 2012
Lindsay Bellani and Leslie Vosshall featured in the 15th Anniversary Women & Science video
YouTube

April 24, 2012
Bayer Crop Sciences video podcast on the Axel-Vosshall-BCS project funded by FNIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
YouTube

April 18, 2012
Blog post: Leslie Vosshall on smell
Glass Petal Smoke

February 2012
Emily Dennis is admitted to the 2012 Marine Biological Laboratory Neural Systems & Behavior Course

February 2012
Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health and FNIH VCTR project with the Axel Lab featured
Bayer Crop Sciences

January 22, 2012
Andreas Keller interviewed by JUS: “Studying the Variability in Smell Perception”
JUSperfume.com

January 12, 2012
Leslie Vosshall joins the Scientific Advisory Board of International Flavors & Fragrances
Market Watch, The Wall Street Journal

January 1, 2012
Lindy McBride is awarded an NIH/NIDCD K99/R00 Pathways to Independence Award

November 8, 2011
Interesting blog post on Maurizio Pellegrino’s Nature paper
BLOG: Why is this Discovery Important?

September 21, 2011
How Does DEET Work? Study Says It Confuses Insects
AP-ABC News

September 21, 2011
DEET scrambles insects’ sense of smell
Nature Newsblog

September 21, 2011
How DEET Swats Insects’ Sense of Smell
HHMI

September 7, 2011
Scents and Sensibilities: How Your Nose Actually Works
The Atlantic

August 8, 2011
Leslie Vosshall and the Rockefeller University Mosquito Study in Talk of the Town in the New Yorker: “Rules of Attraction: Bites”
The New Yorker

July 20, 2011
Roman Corfas successfully defends his thesis research proposal

July 13, 2011
Leslie Vosshall quoted in the New York Times Style Section: “Skin Deep. Pumpkin Pie: Provocative or Just Tasty?”
New York Times

June 4, 2011
Leslie Vosshall with Avery Gilbert, Sissel Tolaas, and Consuelo De Moraes at World Science Festival event: “Scents and Sensibilities: The Invisible Language of Smell”
WSF

May 26, 2011
Lindsay Dick successfully defends her thesis research proposal

May 12, 2011
Leslie Vosshall and Frederic Malle discuss smell at the Rockefeller Women & Science Annual Spring Lecture and Luncheon
Stephen Baum’s blog
BFA photos
PMc photos
David Patrick Columbia
Wall Street Journal

May 9, 2011
Ben Matthews is awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations Ben!
JCC Fund

April 27, 2011
Patrick Huguenin covers the Rockefeller University Smell Study in The New York Daily News
NY Daily News

April 22, 2011
Former summer student Max Ladow accepts a spot at Brown University to begin in the Fall of 2011. Congratulations Max on admission to your first choice college!

April 13-17, 2011
Andreas Keller organized and Koan Baysa curated an art exhibit at AChemS XXXIII in St. Pete Beach, FL entitled “volatile art”
Flickr Set: AChemS XXXIII

April 4, 2011
Titia de Lange is awarded the 2011 Vilcek Prize
Flickr Set: 2011 Vilcek Prize dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel NYC

March 31, 2011
Jeff Liesch is awarded an F31 predoctoral NRSA fellowship. Congratulations Jeff!!

March 14, 2011
Leslie Vosshall talks about and feeds the mosquitoes
science line video “Feeding the Mosquitoes”

March 4, 2011
The Vosshall and Tavazoie labs throw a going-away party for Sir Paul Nurse
Flickr: party photos

January 24, 2011
Andreas Keller quoted in an article on the genetics of smell in The Independent
The Independent (UK)

December 23, 2010
Our 2010 Outreach student, Max Ladow, is featured in a college choice article in the New York Times
The New York Times

December 20, 2010
Five Years In, Gauging Impact of Gates Grants
The New York Times

December 7-20, 2010
After 10 years in cramped space, the Vosshall lab moves across campus to the new lab
Flickr: lab move
Flickr: old lab

November 16, 2010
Leslie Vosshall gives a Special Lecture on olfaction at SFN2010 in San Diego
Vosshall Lab Flickr Feed
Blogging on the Brain

November 10, 2010
Veronica Rodrigues (1953-2010), pioneer in insect olfaction
Obituary

October 6, 2010
NYC Scratch and Sniff Map covered in an online technology article in The Atlantic
Article in The Atlantic by Nicole Twilley

September 23, 2010
Rockefeller University Smell Study inspires Nicola Twilley’s Scratch and Sniff Map of NYC
“You are Here”: Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Photos of Andreas and Leslie at the opening reception

September 22, 2010
Andreas Keller and Peggy Hempstead featured on Nicola Twilley’s blog
Edible Geography

August 3, 2010
Promotion party for Leslie with Paul Nurse, the lab, and special guests at the Rockefeller University Faculty and Student Club
Vosshall Lab Flickr Feed

August 2, 2010
The Vosshall Lab celebrates the achievements of Maurizio Pellegrino, Shelli Farhadian, Sarah Puhr, and our fabulous high school Outreach and college SURF students for an all-you-can eat/drink sushi/sake/beer party at Asihya2 in the East Village
Vosshall Lab Flickr Feed

July 22, 2010
Maurizio Pellegrino successfully defends his PhD thesis
Vosshall Lab Flickr Feed

July 9, 2010
Shelli Farhadian successfully defends her PhD thesis
Vosshall Lab Flickr Feed

June 30, 2010
Leslie Vosshall interviewed by Virginia Gewin for Nature Q&A
Nature Jobs

June 2010
Future postdoc Ben Matthews receives a 2010-2011 Henry and Marie Josee Kravis Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 11, 2010
Our Asahina et al. paper in J. Biology has won the 2009 BioMed Central Biology Research Award! Kenta Asahina accepted the prize in London on June 10, 2010 on behalf of the other coauthors.
BioMed Central
Pictures of Kenta Asahina at the award ceremony

May 17, 2010
Leslie Vosshall promoted to professor
Rockefeller NewsWire

May 14, 2010
BBQ organized by our fabulous research assistants
Vosshall Lab Flickr Feed

April 21, 2010
Our Asahina et al. paper in J. Biology has been short-listed for the 2009 BioMed Central Biology Research Award! Winner announced in London June 10, 2010.
BioMed Central

April 2010
Nicole Steinbach, former Diploma student, accepts an offer to the Integrated PhD Program at Columbia University

April 7, 2010
Katya Prakash accepts an offer to Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

April 5, 2010
Leslie Vosshall receives the 2010 Dart/NYU Biotechnology Alumnae Achievement Award
NYU Medical Center

March 30, 2010
Conor McMeniman awarded a 2010 Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship

March 26, 2010
Rockefeller University Smell Study featured at Headspace 2010 event at Parsons/New School
New York Times
Village Voice
Daily News

March 2010
Former SURF Natasha Meyer accepts an offer from Stanford University and will start her PhD in the fall of 2010

March 2010
Sarah Puhr accepts an offer from the Columbia University Department of Microbiology and Immunology PhD Program

March 2010
Rotation PhD student Lindsay Dick is selected to participate in the 2010 Marine Biological Laboratory Neural Systems & Behavior Course in Woods Hole, MA. Congratulations, Lindsay!
MBL NS&B

February 11, 2010
Postdoc Nilay Yapici is selected to be among the young researchers attending the 60th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau
Lindau Nobel Meetings

January 22, 2010
Maurizio Pellegrino accepts a postdoctoral offer to train with Diana Bautista at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in the fall of 2010

2010
Vosshall Lab on Rockefeller YouTube channel!!
YouTube

February 5, 2010
Postdoc Michael Crickmore profiled: “A Husband and Wife Play Science on the Same Team”
Science Careers

January 19, 2010
Leslie and Jermaine tour the new lab space, still under construction!
Flickr

December 4, 2009
Postdoc Michael Crickmore is Grand Prize winner in the 2009 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists
Rockefeller Newswire

December 1, 2009
Postdoc Michael Crickmore becomes a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellow
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

November 30, 2009
Leslie Vosshall gives tenure talk at Rockefeller
Rockefeller University

October 15, 2009
Former postdoc Richard Benton is the 2009 Grand Prize winner in the international competition for The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Science Magazine

August 22, 2009
The Vosshall Lab proudly announces the birth of its first transgenic mosquito!

August 6, 2009
Annie Rose London, Nareh Marukian, and Natasha Meyer present posters of their projects at the Annual SURF Poster Session

June 2009
Conor McMenamin receives a 2009-2010 Henry and Marie Josee Kravis Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 2009
Alison Hill accepts an offer to enter the Harvard University Virology PhD Program in the Fall of 2009

May 27, 2009
Nilay Yapici is awarded a 2009 EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
European Molecular Biology Organization

May 24, 2009
Andreas Keller is awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Award
NARSAD

May 21, 2009
Leslie Vosshall delivers a Harvey Lecture
The Harvey Society

May 21, 2009
Jeff Liesch defends his thesis research proposal

May 20, 2009
Jennifer Bussell defends her thesis research proposal

May 2009
A Better Bug Spray
HHMI Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 2

May 15, 2009
Cori Bargmann, Leslie Vosshall, and Eric Kandel
12th Annual Women & Science Lecture and Luncheon
Fame Game – The Event
Avenue, July 2009
Fame Game – Gigi, Leslie, Kelly

May 13, 2009
Leslie Vosshall delivers a Congressional Biomedical Caucus Briefing
Coalition for the Life Sciences

April 3, 2009
Leslie Vosshall delivers the 2009 Lawrence C. Katz Memorial Prize Lecture at Duke University
Duke University Neurobiology Department
Flyer for the lecture

April 2009
Maurizio Pellegrino. Life on Top–Working at the Rockefeller University, New York
New Biotechnology

March 23, 2009
Nilay Yapici is awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from HFSP
Human Frontier Science Program

February 5, 2009
Biology: Stench Sense
Nature Research Highlights

January 2009
Italian Magazine profiles Maurizio Pellegrino and Silvia Piccinotti
article

January 9, 2009
New Protein Family May Explain a Mystery of Insect Olfaction
HHMI Research News

January 8, 2009
Scientists discover an ancient odor-detecting mechanism in insects
Rockefeller NewsWire

December 12, 2008
The Science of Smell
Leslie Vosshall, Avery Gilbert
Two smell scientists tackle the biology, genetics, and psychology behind our noses
New York Academy of Sciences Podcast

October 31, 2008
Art Teams With Science to Explain It All to You
New York Times

October 1, 2008
Andreas Keller named a 2008 Branco Weiss Society in Science Fellow
Society in Science Foundation

August 18, 2008
New Theory on DEET: Mosquito Just Dislikes It
New York Times

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 15, 2008
Pheromones in the news
New York Post

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

April 6, 2008
Maurizio Pellegrino’s DEET paper profiled
Torinoscienza.it

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

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

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
Reuters

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
City Hall Press Release
videohttp://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

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.
Columbia
Grand Challenges in Global Health

May 25, 2005
Ana Isabel Domingos defends her PhD thesis at the University of Lisbon in Portugal
See photo 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
Rockefeller NewsWire

January 2005
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Mourns The Loss of Dr. Maclyn McCarty – McCarty Fellowship Awarded In Memory
View PDF

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
Rockefeller NewsWire

March 29, 2004
RADICAL THEORY OF SMELL CHALLENGED Human study fails to support controversial theory’s predictions
Chemical & Engineering News

March 22, 2004
Rockefeller University scientists take on controversial and widely publicized “vibration theory” of smell
Rockefeller Newswire

June 12, 2003
TILL Photonics Technology Award to Dr. Sachse at the Goettingen Neurobiology Conference
Read Press Release

August 2002
Teachers, Students and Researchers Work Side-by-Side at Rockefeller University
Education Update

June 26, 2002
2001 Presidential Early Career Awards Announced
Press Release

February 23, 2001
An Alumna Sets Up Lab
Rockefeller News & Notes





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