CCMAR Seminars by Orsolya Tildy & Diana Gonçalves
22nd JAN | 13:30 | Room 1.39 - Building 7
Orsolya Tildy talks about Comparison of the olfactory ability of family dogs on two odour samples
KEYWORDS: Dog, olfactory, detection
Orsolya Tildy is from Hungary where she got her biology degree and now she's participating in a research here, with Erasmus+. In her MSc years she worked on a dog olfactory research, that she's now presenting to the CCMAR Community.
The study aimed to compare the olfactory abilities of family dogs on relevant (food reward) and irrelevant (explosive) scent samples. For the food reward, Natural Detection Task (NDT) were utilized, while the dogs participated in training for the explosive scent. She examined whether the two types of scent samples and repetition had an effect on the dogs' success in the test.
This talk will be in english and open to everyone!
Diana Gonçalves speaks about Olfaction in Lusitanian Toadfish and the Impact of Anthropogenic Compounds
KEYWORDS: Olfaction; Chemical communication; Intestinal fluid; Wastewater; Electrophysiology
Diana holds an M.Sc. in ecology from the University of Aveiro and is a Ph.D. student in marine sciences. She studies the role of olfaction in marine animals and the impact of anthropogenic chemicals on chemical communication in these species.
Her talk focuses on Lusitanian toadfish's olfactory sensitivity to intraspecific fluids, their importance in chemical communication, and the possible impacts of wastewater treatment plant effluent on olfactory detection. Chemical communication is essential for marine animal survival; fishes use olfaction in several vital processes. Unfortunately, anthropogenic factors such as pollution and climate change affect chemical senses by altering or blocking the recognition of natural odorants.
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