Monell Center Joins With CAS to Host Beijing Meeting on Taste and Smell Research
The Monell Center and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are co-hosts of the Beijing International Meeting on Taste and Smell Research. Organized by Monell in collaboration with the CAS, the meeting will be the first international meeting on taste and smell to be held in China. The historic meeting will be held November 15-17 at the Beijing Marriot Hotel City Wall.
Dr. James F. Battey, Jr. Receives 2009 Kerry-Manheimer Award
James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health, is the 2009 recipient of the Monell Center’s Kerry-Manheimer Award.
The award honors career achievement in chemosensory science.
Tracking Darwin’s Route, Monell Scientist to Follow Her Nose
As part of a year-long recreation of Darwin’s epic voyage on the HMS Beagle, an olfactory scientist from the Monell Center will explore how people respond to smell at each of the ship’s ports of call.
Pioneering Molecular Biologist Robert Margolskee Joins Monell Faculty
Robert F. Margolskee, M.D., Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on the molecular mechanisms of taste, has joined the faculty of the Monell Center.
Monell Scientists Explain Taste Genetics on NOVA ScienceNOW
Monell scientists Danielle Reed, Julie Mennella and Robert Margolskee were featured in a segment on the genetics of taste perception on the July 21 episode of the award-winning PBS series NOVA ScienceNOW.
Visit the ScienceNOW website to view the segment and for an animated tour of the science of taste narrated by Reed, who also answers selected questions online in an Ask The Expert feature.
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ALAN LESHNER, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science