People / Kauer Laboratory

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John S. Kauer, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Phone: (617) 636-3844
Fax: (617) 636-0476
john.kauer@tufts.edu

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Research Interests

Structure and function of sensory systems; synaptic organization of the olfactory pathway; computational modeling; voltage-sensitive dye imaging; artificial nose development.

Studies of the salamander olfactory system - see extensive reference list (pdf) on this subject

Selected Publications

Cinelli, A.R., Neff, S.R., Kauer, J.S. 1995. Salamander olfactory bulb neuronal activity observed by video-rate, voltage-sensitive dye imaging. I. Characterization of the recording system. J. Neurophysiol. 73:2017-2032.

Cinelli, A.R., Hamilton, K.A., Kauer, J.S. 1995. Salamander olfactory bulb neuronal activity observed by video-rate, voltage-sensitive dye imaging. III. Spatial and temporal properties of responses evoked by odor stimulation. J. Neurophysiol. 73:2053-2071.

Wensley, C.H., Stone, D M., Baker, H., Kauer, J.S., Margolis, F.L., Chikaraishi, D.M.. 1995. Olfactory marker protein mRNA is found in axons of olfactory receptor neurons. J. Neurosci. 15:4827-4837.

Roffler-Tarlov, S., Martin, B., Graybiel, A M., Kauer, J.S. 1996. Cell death in the midbrain of the murine mutation weaver. J. Neurosci.16:1819-1826.

White, J., Kauer*, J.S., Dickinson, T., Walt*, D.R. 1996. Rapid analyte recognition in a device based on optical sensors and the olfactory system. Anal. Chem. 68:2191-2202 (* joint, senior communicating authors).

Dickinson, T.A., White, J., Kauer, J.S.*, Walt, D.R.* 1996. A chemical-detecting system based on cross-reactive optical array sensors and temporal responses. Nature 382:697-699 (News and Views) (* co-senior authors).

Feng, Wen-Hui, Adelman, L., Kauer, J.S., Talamo, B.R. 1997. A new structure, the "olfactory pit," in human olfactory mucosa. J. Comp. Neurol. 378:443-453.

Dorries, K., White, J., Kauer, J.S. 1997. Rapid classical conditioning of odor response in a physiological model for olfactory research, the tiger salamander. Chem. Senses 22:277-286.

Dickinson, T.A., Walt, D.R., White, J., Kauer, J.S. 1997. Generating sensor diversity through combinatorial polymer synthesis. Anal. Chem. 69:3413-3418.

Johnson, S. R., Sutter, J. M., Engelhardt, H.L., Jurs, P.C., White, J., Kauer, J.S., Dickinson, T.A., Walt, D.R. 1998. Identification of multiple analytes using an optical sensor array and pattern recognition neural networks. Anal. Chem. 69:4641-4648.

White, J., Dickinson, T., Walt, D., Kauer, J.S. 1998. An olfactory neuronal network for vapor recognition in an artificial nose. Biol. Cybern. 78:245-251.

Walt, D.R., Dickinson, T., White, J., Kauer, J.S., Johnson, S., Engelhardt, H., Sutter, J., Jurs, P. 1998. Optical sensor arrays for odor recognition. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 13:697-699.

Bozza, T., Kauer, J.S. 1998. Odorant response properties of convergent olfactory receptor neurons. J. Neurosci. 18:4560-4569.

Dickinson, T.A., White, J., Kauer, J.S., Walt, D.R. 1998. Current Trends in 'artificial nose' technology. Trends in Biotechnology 16:250-258.

Alkasab, T.K., Bozza, T.C., Cleland, T.A., Dorries, K.M., Pearce, T.C., White, J., Kauer, J.S. 1999. Characterizing complex chemosensors: Information theoretic analysis of olfactory systems. Trends in Neuroscience 22:102-108.

Dickinson, T. A., Michael, K. L., Kauer, J. S., Walt, D.R. 1999. Convergent, self-encoded bead sensor arrays in the design of an artificial nose. Anal. Chem. 71:2192-2198.

Dorries K.M., Kauer J.S. 2000. Relationships between odor-elicited oscillations in the salamander olfactory epithelium and olfactory bulb. J. Neurophysiol. 83:754-765.

White, J., Kauer, J.S. 2001. Exploring olfactory population coding using an artificial olfactory system. Prog. Br. Res. 130:191-203.

Alkasab, T. K., White, J., Kauer, J.S. 2002. A computational system for simulating and analyzing arrays of biological and artificial sensors. Chem. Senses. 27:261-275.

Review Articles and Chapters:

Hunter, D.D., Caggiano, ME., Kauer, J.S. 1995. Lineage Analysis of the Olfactory Epithelium Using a Replication-incompetent Retrovirus. Chem. Senses. 19:683-693 (invited paper)

Kauer, J.S., White, J., Shepherd, G.M.. 1995. The Olfactory Bulb. In: Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. ed: M. A. Arbib. Bradford Books/The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA

Kauer, J.S. 1995. Video-rate imaging of potentiometric dyes in olfactory research. In: Experimental Cell Biology of Taste and Olfaction, eds: Spielman, A.I. and Brand, J.G. CRC Press, Inc. pp 399-406

Kauer, J.S., Firestein, SJ. 1995. Methods for air-borne and aqueous stimulus delivery in olfactory research. In: Experimental Cell Biology of Taste and Olfaction, eds: Spielman, A.I. and Brand, J.G. CRC Press, Inc. pp 91-98

Walt, D.R., Dickinson, T.A., Healey, B.G., Kauer, J.S., White, J. 1995. Fiber optic array sensors as an architecture for an artificial nose. Chemical, Biochemical, Environmental Sensors VII. Optics for Environmental and Public Safety, Europto Series. Munich. 6/19-23/95

Kauer, J.S. 1998. A Time and Place for Everything in the Olfactory System. Current Biology 8:R282-R283

Albert, K.J., Dickinson, T.A., Walt, D.R., White, J., Kauer, J.S. 1998. Designing Optical Sensor Arrays with Enhanced Sensitivity for Explosives Detection. Proceedings of SPIE: Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets III 13-17 April, Vol. 3392, Part 1 of 2, pp.426-431

White, J., Kauer, J.S. 1999. Odor recognition in an artificial nose by spatio-temporal processing using an olfactory neuronal network. Neurocomputing 26-27:919-924

Pearce, T.C., White, J., Albert, K.A., Dickinson, T.A., Walt, D.R., Kauer, J.S. 1999. Sensitivity Enhancement for Electronic Noses. International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Noses, Tubingen, Germany, 9/20 - 22.

Kauer, J.S. and J. White 2001. Imaging and coding in the olfactory system. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. Vol. 24: 963-979.

White, J., Mall, S., Kauer, J.S. 2001. Using Biology to Guide Development of an Artificial Olfactory System. In: Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots. Eds. Ayers, J., Davis, J., Rudolph, A. MIT Press. (in press).

Kauer, J.S. 2002. On the scents of smell in the salamander. Nature 416:20-26 (invited Insight Review).

Kauer, J.S., White, J. 2002. Representation of odor information in the olfactory system: from biology to an artificial nose. In: Sensors and Sensing in Biology and Engineering. Barth, F.G., Humphrey, J.A.C. Secomb, T.W. (eds) Springer Verlag, Berlin.