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Chemical Senses Training Programs


The Association for Chemoreception Sciences recognizes the need for students interested in pursuing a career in the chemical senses to have ready access to a list of legitimate training programs at institutions of higher learning. With this goal in mind, we have developed the Directory of Chemical Senses Training Programs that will provide students interested in graduate and undergraduate training with a comprehensive list of programs that cover a wide range of subject areas related to the chemical senses. According to the AChemS bylaws, we must make available to our students information about Training Programs in the Chemical Senses. This portion of the AChemS website extends this effort and makes the information more widely available.

DIRECTORY OF TRAINING PROGRAMS

CALIFORNIA

Integrative and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program
University of Southern California
https://dornsife.usc.edu/bisc/heb-graduate-studies/
Lindsey Schier
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]

Applied Sensory and Consumer Science Certificate Program
UC Davis
https://cpe.ucdavis.edu/certificate-program/applied-sensory-and-consumer-science-certificate-program
Rebecca Bleibaum, faculty
Jean Xavier Guinard, faculty
Trucie DeWit, program administrator
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-752-0881

COLORADO

Neuroscience Program
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center
www.ucdenver/neuroscience
PhD, MD/PhD, and Postdoc
Dr. Sukumar Vijayaraghavan
Director, Neuroscience Program
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center
Mail Stop 8307
Bldg RC1, Room L18-7121
12800 East 19th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
t: 303-724-4531
[email protected]

FLORIDA

Chemosensory Training Program (CTP)
Florida State University      

http://opda.fsu.edu/awards-and-fellowships/nih-fsu-postdoctoral-fellowships/nih-chemosensory-training-grant-program
PhD, MS, Postdoc
CTP Director: Dr. Debra Ann Fadool [850 644 4775]
Program in Neuroscience (Dr. Lisa Eckel, director)
C241 PDB (4301)
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301
t: 850-644-3076
f: 850-644-7739
Twitter: @dfadool
[email protected] or [email protected]

Program in Neuroscience
Florida State University

http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/
PhD and Postdoctoral
Debra Ann Fadool - Predoctoral and postdoctoral training grant in Chemical Senses
PI Participating Departments: Biological Science, Biomedical Science, Mathematics, Molecular Biophysics, Psychology 
Director: Dr. Lisa Eckel
Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Attn: Janice Parker
Program in Neuroscience
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301
t: 850-644-3076
f: 850-644-7739
[email protected] 

Training Program in Chemosensory Science
University of Florida
NIDCD supported T32 in Chemosensory Sciences
Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D. and Postdoc
Dr. Dan Wesson, Director
PO Box 100127
Gainesville, FL 32610
352-294-8767
[email protected]
 

Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of Florida
University of Florida
10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (SURF)
https://pharmacology.med.ufl.edu/education/surf-program/
Applications are open until Friday, February 16th, 2024

KENTUCKY

Graduate Training in Integrative Physiology
Tim McClintock, PhD
Louis Boyarsky Professor of Physiology
University of Kentucky
800 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40536-0298
t: 859-323-1083
f: 859-323-1070
[email protected]
https://physiology.med.uky.edu/mcclintock-lab

MARYLAND

Program in Neuroscience
University of Maryland Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Nursing

http://neuroscience.umaryland.edu
PhD, MD/PhD and Postdoc
Mary Kay Lobo
Director for Graduate Training
20 Penn Street
Room S218E
Baltimore, MD 21201
t: 410-706-3590
f: 410-706-2512

OHIO

Neuroscience Graduate Program 
The Ohio State University Columbus, OH      

http://ngsp.osu.edu
PhD
Prof. John Oberdick (co-director)
Department of Neuroscience
Graves Hall
333 W. 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
P: 614-292-8714
F: 614-292-5379
[email protected]

Prof. Jonathan Godbout  (co-director)
Department of Neuroscience
259 Institute for Behavioral Medicine
Research Building
460 Medical Center Drive
Columbus, OH 43210
P: 614-293-3456
F: 614-366-2097
[email protected]

PENNSYLVANIA

Interdisciplinary Training in the Chemical Senses
Monell Chemical Senses Center

http://www.monell.org/education_training
Postdoc., Undergraduate, MS or PhD (with approval from home institution)
Dr. Danielle R. Reed
Director, Postdoctoral Training Program
Monell Chemical Senses Center
3500 Market Street
Philadelphia PA 19104 USA
t: 267-519-4915
[email protected]

Program in Neurobiology of Otorhinolaryngology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
www.med.upenn.edu/stc
PhD, MD
Dr. Richard L. Doty
Smell and Taste Center
5 Ravdin Building
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
t: 215-662-6580
[email protected]  

TEXAS

Pheromone and Olfactory Perception
Department of Pharmacology and Center for Basic Neuroscience
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/smith-dean/
PhD/MD, PhD, Postdoc
Dr. Dean Smith

Professor, Department of Pharmacology
John P. Perkins PhD Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Sciences
Cellular and Molecular Biology and Neuroscience Graduate Program
UTSWMC
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9111
t: 214-648-1650
f: 214-648-1801

[email protected]

Washington, DC

Graduate Program in Anatomy
Howard University College of Medicine

https://gs.howard.edu/graduate-programs/anatomy
MS, PhD, MD/PhD
Dr. Thomas Heinbockel
Director of Graduate Studies in Anatomy
HUCM, Department of Anatomy
520 ‘W’ Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
t: 202-806-9873
f: 202-265-7055
[email protected]

Outside the US

Interdisciplinary Research in Smell and Taste Disorders
https://goo.gl/1ELY2A
PhD, Dr. med.
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Hummel
Interdisciplinary Center Smell & Taste
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
TU Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
Fetscherstarsse 74
01307 Dresden, Germany
t: +49-351-458-4189
[email protected]

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