Caitlin Lienkaemper
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Caitlin Lienkaemper
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Postdoc in brain and cognitive science at MIT.

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last thing the dinosaurs saw before they got extinct-ed
October 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This helps explain why human-specialist predators, like Aedes aegypti, show widespread co-expression, while more generalist species, like mice and fruit flies, do not
March 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We showed that non-canonical olfactory systems can be optimal if

-the environment is "noisy"
-behaviorally relevant odorants are correlated
March 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Olfactory systems in model organisms follow a "one-receptor-to-one-neuron" rule. But mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti ) violate this rule--they co-express multiple receptor types per neuron.

Why?
March 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM