As a postdoctoral fellow in Guillaume de Lartigue’s lab, Rebeca Méndez-Hernández studies how the brain listens to the body, detangling the sensory signals that shape hunger, metabolism, and behavior....
Danielle Reed didn’t always know she would become a scientist. In fact, she started college as an economics major, drawn to the elegance of math but unsettled by how abstract it felt. Everything changed when she took a psychology course rooted in biology—and stepped into...
First, there was SCENTinel® 1.0, then 1.1, and now 2.1, the different iterations of the rapid screening tool for detecting new-onset loss of smell developed by scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. Since its launch in late 2020, several studies have validated its accuracy...
The overall program of sensory nutrition research at the Monell Center spans quite literally soup to nuts, from molecular biology to policymaking....
A Tribute to Anosmia Awareness by Jenifer Trachtman, Monell Director of Development...
[caption id="attachment_4937" align="alignright" width="300"] Kevin Bolding, PhD[/caption]Getting to know Kevin Bolding, PhD Earlier this year, Kevin Bolding, PhD, joined Monell as an assistant faculty member. While Bolding started his academic journey in genetics at Texas A&M university, he received his PhD in neural and behavioral science...
Robert Pellegrino, PhD, received his degree in food science from the University of Tennessee. He is now a postdoctoral fellow working with the labs of Pamela Dalton, PhD, and Joel Mainland, PhD. His work combines psychophysics and behavioral analyses to help better understand our relationship...
When it comes to the sense of smell, our understanding of its logic is incomplete. Luis Saraiva, PhD, is one of a group scientists dedicated to changing that reality....
What properties allow molecules to be odorous? The Mainland Lab provides answers to one of the most fundamental questions about the sense of smell....
Associate Director Danielle Reed, PhD shares her thoughts [LINK] on science communication and her experience working with other chemosensory scientists at the University of Gdańsk, Poland....