Dr. Michael G. Tordoff is a
psychobiologist working at the
Monell Chemical Senses Center
The Monell Chemical Senses Center is a non-profit independent scientific institute located at the University City Science Center campus in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. Monell conducts and publishes interdisciplinary basic research on taste, Olfa ...
. His research deals with the genetics and physiology of taste and nutrition. His early work addressed (a) how and what animals learn about the value of their food, (b) how artificial sweeteners influence appetite and body weight, (c) how salt intake is regulated, and (d) how dietary calcium influences salt intake. Recently, he has been investigating calcium taste and appetite.
He is the primary proponent of the notion that calcium is a basic taste, equivalent to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
Dr. Tordoff hosts the Monell Mouse Taste Phenotyping Project. In August 2009, h
bicycled across the USAin 27 days. He is married to, and often collaborates with, Dr.
Danielle Reed
Danielle Renee Reed is an American geneticist employed at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is most notable for her papers regarding genetic variation in taste and obesity in mice and humans.
Early life and edu ...
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Reference list
Recent publications
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External links
Dr. Tordoff's page at the Monell Chemical Senses Center websiteThe Elsevier Science Direct Directory of the works of Dr. Tordoff
Living people
1956 births
American geneticists
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