I study the molecules and neural circuits that compose sensory systems, how they work, and how sensory processing guides behavior in animals. My work focuses thermosensation and the sense of taste, which have ties to homeostasis behaviors in animals and human experiences including pain sensation and feeding.
Experiments in my lab take a multidisciplinary approach to examine taste and thermosensory coding that includes systems neurophysiology and behavior, molecular- and genetic-assisted control of neurons in vivo for functional and circuit mapping studies, computational methods, and development of novel hardware and techniques supporting new directions in our research.
Li, J., Ali, Md S.S., and Lemon, C.H. (2022) TRPV1-lineage somatosensory fibers communicate with taste neurons in the mouse parabrachial nucleus. The Journal of Neuroscience 42(9): 1719-1737.
Lemon, C.H. (2021) Tasting temperature: neural and behavioral responses to thermal stimulation of oral mucosa. Current Opinion in Physiology 20:16-22.
Li, J. and Lemon, C.H. (2019) Mouse parabrachial neurons signal a relationship between bitter taste and nociceptive stimuli. The Journal of Neuroscience 39(9): 1631-1648.
Lemon, C.H. (2017) Modulation of Taste Processing by Temperature. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 313(4): R305-R321.
Lemon, C.H. (2015) Perceptual and neural responses to sweet taste in humans and rodents. Chemosensory Perception, 8 (2): 46-52.
