Scents and Sensibility: Representations of the Olfactory World in the Brain

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series is pleased to welcome Nobel Laureate, Richard Axel, M.D., on November 4, 2015 as one of our keynote speakers this year. Dr. Axel is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. A series of pioneering studies by Dr. Axel has answered the question, how does the brain know what the nose is smelling, by clarifying in exquisite detail how the sense of smell works. It is