Events
Taste and Smell: Frontlines in Immunology
A Penn-Monell Symposium
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
8:00am—12:00pm EST
Virtual on Zoom
8:00am
Welcome: Kevin Foskett “Overview of taste”
8:20am
Keynote: Noam Cohen “Taste receptors: regulators of sinonasal innate immunity”
Session 1: Chemical Senses, Regeneration and Immunology
9:00am
Peihua Jiang “Taste cells and type 2 immunity”
9:15am
Marco Tizzano “Gingival solitary chemosensory cells are immune sentinels”
9:30am
Bruce Kimball “Detection of illness by volatile chemical analysis”
9:45am
Andrew Vaughan “Tuft cells and lung remodeling”
10:00am
Hong Wang “Immunology and taste cells”
10:15am
Rob Lee “Taste receptors in immune cells”
10:30am
Coffee Break
Session 2: COVID-19 and Smell Loss
11:00am
Pamela Dalton “Postviral smell loss”
11:15am
Jay Gottfried “COVID-19 and smell loss”
Session 3: The Future of Chemosensory Science
11:30am
Keynote: Nancy Rawson: Vision of Penn & Monell as partners in immunology and beyond
2020 Seminar Series
For years, leading scientists have traveled from around the world to present their research at Monell. However, as we adapt to the current COVID-19 pandemic, these seminars have moved online, and are now accessible to you wherever you are in the world. Please use the link below to register and join us.
Please check back for details and future event listings.
Past Seminar Videos
Dr. Ginnefer Cox
Looking Beyond the Sensory Booth Setting: Confessions of a Non-Traditional Sensory Scientist.
December 8, 2020
Dr. Guillaume de Lartigue
Disentanging gut-brain circuits that control feeding behavior.
Novemeber 10, 2020
Dr. Justus Verhagen
Odor coding and discrimination over time by mice: new insights.
October 13, 2020
Special Seminar
The Covid-19 Nose: Upper Airway Symptoms and Cell Biology Relevant to SARS-CoV-2.
June 2, 2020
Dr. Jakob von Moltke
Small intestinal tuft cells: sentinels and effectors of type 2 immunity.