Tag: anosmia

Monell 50th Anniversary Events

During one magical week in November 2018, we celebrated Monell’s 50th Anniversary with a series of exciting events, and we’d like to share some of the photos with you. Scroll and enjoy the three slideshows below! Identifying Treatments for Taste…

Celebrate Memories With The Sense Of Smell

Valentine’s Gifts For Seniors When searching for a meaningful Valentine’s Day gift for an elderly friend or relative, don’t settle on the same old box of candies again. Instead, consider highly fragrant items that bring back happy memories, suggest Monell…

Featuring the 50th

2018 marks the Monell Center’s 50th anniversary, and we are proudly celebrating our storied history of sensory discoveries! Below are some of the highlights from this milestone year.   Regilding of Face Fragment (Summer 2017) Befitting our golden anniversary, we…

Researching Smell, From Someone Who Can’t

Daniel Schein was born without a sense of smell, a condition known as “congenital anosmia.” Wanting to learn more about anosmia, he spent the last two summers researching olfaction as a volunteer in Johannes Reisert’s lab. We asked Daniel, currently…

An Excellent Fit: Luis Saraiva Joins Monell

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…

Pop Quiz!

Monell Sense-sational Taste & Smell Quiz: How much do you know about taste and smell? Take this quiz to find out!                                      …

Research at Twinsburg: A Retrospective

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…

Why Study Twins?

Monell scientists first started attending the Twins Days Festival in 2002, joining a number of other institutions in the Research Plaza just outside the Festival grounds. In 2003, we wrote about the Twinsburg trips for the Monell Newsletter (you can…

Seeing Double: Monell is Heading to Twinsburg

Feel like you’re seeing double? Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your eyes! You’re looking at a photo from the Twins Days Festival, the largest annual gathering of twins in the world. The Festival is hosted every summer in, of…