Publications
74
Citations
2,703
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
42
Publishing since 1984
Susan P. Travers studies the neuroscience of taste, focusing on how neurons in the brainstem (especially the nucleus of the solitary tract) process signals about sweet, bitter, and other taste qualities, and how inhibitory (GABA) circuits shape taste-related behavior. Her work combines electrophysiology, genetic mouse models, and behavioral testing to understand taste receptor mechanisms, including cases where sugar detection occurs independently of the usual T1R taste receptors. She has also contributed work on chemosensory (smell/taste) loss related to COVID-19.
Publication output has been modest and somewhat irregular over the last decade, with a peak around 2021-2022 followed by a slowdown in 2023-2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Chemogenetic suppression of NST GABA neurons reveals inhibition of behavioral responses to sucrose and quinine
Physiology & Behavior · 2025
- A Novel Mechanism for T1R-Independent Taste Responses to Concentrated Sugars
Journal of Neuroscience · 2023
- Chemosensory losses in past and active likely delta variant break-through COVID-19 cases
Med · 2022
- Characteristics and Impact of the rNST GABA Network on Neural and Behavioral Taste Responses
eNeuro · 2022
- Characteristics and Impact of the rNST GABA Network on Neural and Behavioral Taste Responses
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- A T1R-independent mechanism for responses to hyperosmotic sugars involves a carbonic anhydrase-sensitive mechanism in Type III receptor cells
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- Death from COVID-19: management of breathlessness: a retrospective multicentre study
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care · 2021
- Taste Buds and Gustatory Transduction: A Functional Perspective
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience · 2021
- Anatomical Organization and Coding in the Gustatory System: A Functional Perspective
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience · 2021
- Electrophysiological responses to sugars and amino acids in the nucleus of the solitary tract of type 1 taste receptor double-knockout mice
Journal of Neurophysiology · 2020
- Neurons with diverse phenotypes project from the caudal to the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract
The Journal of Comparative Neurology · 2018
- Taste sensitivity to a mixture of monosodium glutamate and inosine 5′-monophosphate by mice lacking both subunits of the T1R1+T1R3 amino acid receptor
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology · 2018
- Microcircuitry of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2017
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Overlapping representation of primary tastes in a defined region of the gustatory cortex.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature · 2017
- P2X2 Receptor Terminal Field Demarcates a “Transition Zone” for Gustatory and Mechanosensory Processing in the Mouse Nucleus Tractus Solitarius
Chemical Senses · 2016
- Journal of Neurophysiology×3
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×3
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience×2
- Chemical Senses×1
- Journal of Neuroscience×1
- B. Kalyanasundar
Nursing · The Ohio State University
- Robert J. Lee
Nursing · The Ohio State University
- Eunjin Cheon
Nursing · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Cordelia A. Running
Nursing · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Anamika Singh
Nursing · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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