Danielle Renee Reed[1] is an American geneticist employed at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
in the laboratory of Stephen Woods at the University of Washington, studying the role of hormonal signals on food intake in rodents.
[citation needed] She did her doctoral dissertation with Judith Rodin at Yale University and Mark Friedman (scientist)[1] at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, focusing on how rodent metabolism changes in response to short term exposure to high-fat diets.
[citation needed] Reed has conducted numerous studies of identical twins in order to help tease our the genetic basis for taste and smell preferences.
[3] She teaches a summer class called "A Taste of Chemistry," which is sponsored in part by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.