D. Matthew Wachowiak

D. Matthew Wachowiak, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Neurobiology

Lab

Education History

Undergraduate Duke University
 BS
Fellowship National Science Foundation
 Predoctoral Fellow
Fellowship University of Florida
 Fellow
Doctoral Training University of Florida
 PhD
Fellowship Marine Biological Laboratory
 Fellow
Fellowship Marine Biological Laboratory
 Fellow
Fellowship Marine Biological Laboratory
 Fellow
Fellowship Yale University School of Medicine
 Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Wachowiak (2011). All in a sniff: olfaction as a model for active sensing. Neuron, 71(6), 962-73. (Read full article)
  2. Carey RM, Verhagen JV, Wesson DW, Pirez N, Wachowiak (2009). Temporal structure of receptor neuron input to the olfactory bulb imaged in behaving rats. Journal of neurophysiology, 101(2), 1073-88. (Read full article)
  3. Spors H, Wachowiak M, Cohen LB, Friedrich R (2006). Temporal dynamics and latency patterns of receptor neuron input to the olfactory bulb. The Journal of neuroscience, 26(4), 1247-59. (Read full article)
  4. Cenier T, McGann JP, Tsuno Y, Verhagen JV, Wachowiak (2013). Testing the sorption hypothesis in olfaction: A limited role for sniff strength in shaping primary odor representations during behavior. The Journal of neuroscience, 33(1), 79-92.
  5. Carey RC, Wachowiak (2011). Effect of sniffing on the temporal structure of mitral/tufted cell output from the olfactory bulb. J Neurosci (in press). The Journal of neuroscience, 31, 10615-26.
  6. Wachowiak M, Economo MN, Díaz-Quesada M, Brunert D, Wesson DW, White JA, Rothermel (2013). Optical dissection of odor information processing in vivo using GCaMPs expressed in specified cell types of the olfactory bulb. The Journal of neuroscience, 33(12), 5285-300.
  7. Díaz-Quesada M, Youngstrom IA, Tsuno Y, Hansen KR, Economo MN, Wachowiak (2018). Inhalation Frequency Controls Reformatting of Mitral/Tufted Cell Odor Representations in the Olfactory Bulb. The Journal of neuroscience, 38(9), 2189-2206. (Read full article)
  8. Liu S, Shao Z, Puche A, Wachowiak M, Rothermel M, Shipley M (2015). Muscarinic receptors modulate dendrodendritic inhibitory synapses to sculpt glomerular output. The Journal of neuroscience, 35(14), 5680-92. (Read full article)
  9. Rothermel M, Brunert D, Zabawa C, Díaz-Quesada M, Wachowiak (2013). Transgene expression in target-defined neuron populations mediated by retrograde infection with adeno-associated viral vectors. The Journal of neuroscience, 33(38), 15195-206. (Read full article)
  10. Burton SD, Wipfel M, Guo M, Eiting TP, Wachowiak (2019). A Novel Olfactometer for Efficient and Flexible Odorant Delivery. Chemical senses, 44(3), 173-188. (Read full article)
  11. Verhagen JV, Wesson DW, Netoff TI, White JA, Wachowiak (2007). Sniffing controls an adaptive filter of sensory input to the olfactory bulb. Nature neuroscience, 10(5), 631-9. (Read full article)
  12. Wesson DW, Carey RM, Verhagen JV, Wachowiak (2008). Rapid encoding and perception of novel odors in the rat. PLoS biology, 6(4), e82. (Read full article)
  13. Cheung MC, Jang W, Schwob JE, Wachowiak (2014). Functional recovery of odor representations in regenerated sensory inputs to the olfactory bulb. Frontiers in neural circuits, 7, 207.
  14. Eiting TP, Wachowiak (2018). Artificial Inhalation Protocol in Adult Mice. Bio-protocol, 8(18), (Read full article)
  15. Short SM, Wachowiak (2019). Temporal Dynamics of Inhalation-Linked Activity across Defined Subpopulations of Mouse Olfactory Bulb Neurons Imaged In Vivo. eNeuro, 6(3), (Read full article)
  16. Burton SD, Brown A, Eiting TP, Youngstrom IA, Rust TC, Schmuker M, Wachowiak (2022). Mapping odorant sensitivities reveals a sparse but structured representation of olfactory chemical space by sensory input to the mouse olfactory bulb. eLife, 11, (Read full article)
  17. Moran AK, Eiting TP, Wachowiak (2021). Circuit Contributions to Sensory-Driven Glutamatergic Drive of Olfactory Bulb Mitral and Tufted Cells During Odorant Inhalation. Frontiers in neural circuits, 15, 779056. (Read full article)
  18. Zhu KW, Burton SD, Nagai MH, Silverman JD, de March CA, Wachowiak M, Matsunami (2022). Decoding the olfactory map through targeted transcriptomics links murine olfactory receptors to glomeruli. Nature communications, 13(1), 5137. (Read full article)

Review

  1. Wachowiak M, Dewan A, Bozza T, O'Connell TF, Hong E (2025). Recalibrating Olfactory Neuroscience to the Range of Naturally Occurring Odor Concentrations. The Journal of neuroscience, 45(10), (Read full article)