Monell’s newest faculty member studies fruit flies to gain insight into how oral perception impacts human feeding behavior and nutrition-related disease If Monell’s founder Dr. Morley Kare were a fly on the wall of Yali Zhang’s laboratory, he’d be smiling…
“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” We rely on our chemical senses – smell, taste, and chemical feel – to protect us from harm. Smell…
We’re back with another round of questions to challenge your taste and smell knowledge! Fair warning: You may want to read our 2016-2017 Annual Report before you attempt this quiz… Look for this symbol throughout the 2016-2017 Annual Report for…
Luis Saraiva, Monell’s newest adjunct faculty member, practically personifies the Center’s multidisciplinary spirit. His expertise extends across an impressive array of scientific fields, including microbiology, neurophysiology, animal behavior, neurobiology, and genetics. Now he brings skills from each of these areas…
Dreams are the seedlings of realities – James Allen. Most people say they don’t experience smells in their dreams, but Monell’s Joel Mainland is not like most people. Over the past two years, Mainland has spent a fair bit of…
For over 30 years, landmark studies from Julie Mennella, Gary Beauchamp, Beverly Cowart and other Monell researchers have provided significant insights into how infants and children form flavor preferences. With broad implications for children’s health, this foundational work is highly…
Monell is a unique organization; the only independent research center in the world studying taste and smell. I first found out about Monell in 2011 while walking my kids through the Philadelphia Science Festival Carnival. I was fascinated by smelling…
Chuck Wysocki first walked in the door of Monell in May of 1978. About to complete his doctorate in behavioral neuroscience at Florida State University, Wysocki’s goal was to obtain a post-doctoral position at the Center, and he was dressed…
Monell’s newest faculty member, Marco Tizzano, PhD, is turning his attention to a problem that gives people headaches. Literally… The primary focus of Tizzano’s work involves the third chemical sense, known as chemesthesis. Tizzano likes to describe chemesthesis as the…
It’s difficult to describe the otherworldly feeling of walking around a festival surrounded by thousands of mirror images – but that’s Twinsburg in a nut-shell. The 2015 Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg drew 2041 sets of twins and multiples, many of…
