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Welcome to AChemS

The Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) is an international association that advances understanding of the senses of taste and smell.

We encourage basic, clinical, and applied research in the chemical senses (gustation, olfaction and trigeminal sensation). To this end, we promote an appreciation of chemosensory research, represent the interests of the chemosensory research community, and serve as a resource for those requiring chemosensory expertise.

Of Special Interest and Announcements

Click here to view photos of the 2009 AChemS award winners and listen to awardee interviews!
 
For information about NIDCD's Recovery Act please see NIDCD's Recovery Act
 
Summer School on Human Olfaction
Dresden, Germany
July 19-25, 2009
Please click here for more information
 
Chemical Senses International Meeting
Monell Chemical Senses is pleased to announce and invite you to attend the first international meeting on the chemical senses to be held in China.  The meeting will be in Beijing, China on November 15- 17, 2009 and is being organized by the Monell Chemical Senses Center in collaboration with colleagues in China. 
Please CLICK HERE to visit the meeting website ( www.chinachemosensory.org).
 

 



 
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Olfactory bulb section from rat with a single mitral cell filled with biocytin (red), nuclei stained with the counterstain Sytox Green (green) and olfactory receptor axons stained with olfactory marker protein (blue).
(Photo: Adam C. Puche)
Solitary chemosensory cells (green) stained in red for the transient receptor potential channel (contributed by Weihong Lin, Thomas Finger and Diego Restrepo)
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