Unlocking the mystery of human taste: U.S. scientist to lecture in Marseille

Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., located on the Cornell campus, will lecture in Marseille, France, Nov. 16, on how plant chemicals change the taste sensation for insects.

His talk will offer potential biochemical insight into how human taste develops and deteriorates over a lifetime.

His lecture, "Variable Diets and Changing Taste in Plant-Insect Relationships," will be at 3 p.m. at the Concord Palm Beach Hotel.

Renwick, who is also an adjunct professor of entomology at Cornell, will be in Marseille to accept the Silverstein-Simeone Award for Outstanding Research in Chemical Ecology from the International Society of Chemical Ecology.

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