Danielle Reed

Chief Science Officer, Monell Chemical Senses Center

Danielle Renee Reed is the Chief Science Officer of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a non-profit research institution devoted to the study of taste and smell, located in Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University, and did her postdoctoral training in genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies person-to-person differences in the sense of taste and smell, is the past president of the Association of Chemoreception Sciences and a founding member of the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research, and was recently awarded a patent for smell screening test. Currently she is working on a collaborative grant to understand the molecular basis of post-viral taste and smell loss.

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A ≠ B → Taste & Discernment

March 23rd, 2024 at 2:30PM

Past Event

Where life begins to distinguish the edible, the nutritious, the appealing, from the insipid, the poisonous, and the disgusting; this is where taste and discernment come into being. From a bag of Cheetos to Michelin 3-star fare we cover a lot of ground, yet financial means alone fails to account fully for the popularity of… read more »