ScienceEvent Archives – SFB 1665 Science Blog

September 17, 2026 / Events, iRTG / BiomedicalResearch, biomedicalsex, conference, CRC1665, EMBL, EMBO, EuropeanMolecularBiologyLabratory, EuropeanMolecularBiologyOrganization, Genes, Heidelberg, InternationalResearch, iRTG, Poster, Science, ScienceEvent, SexDifferences, SexGenes, symposium

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At a Glance: Sex Differences in Health and Disease – Highlights from the EMBO/EMBL Symposium 2026

What do fly-intestines, artificial blood vessels, and X-chromosome inactivation have in common? That’s right, sex differences!
These and many other topics were discussed at the 2026 EMBO/EMBL (European Molecular Biology Organization/ European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Symposium “Sex Differences in Health and Disease” in Heidelberg, Germany. CRC 1665 researchers Nadine Hornig, Prathiksha Ramesh, and I, Katharina Dörner, attended four days full of talks, discussions, and fun group activities at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre.

August 13, 2026 / Events / BiomedicalResearch, conference, congress, DifferencesofSExDevelopment, discussions, DSD, Early Career Researcher, experts, I-DSD, interdisciplinarity, Lübeck, patient participation, PosterAward, research, ScienceEvent, SDMregistries, Sexdiversity, symposium, VariationsofSexCharacteristics

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Connecting science across continents: Highlights of the 12th I-DSD congress

For three days Lübeck became the meeting pot for experts discussing the developments, challenges and aims in research of differences of sex development (DSD). With a variety of participants from five continents, the symposium positioned itself at the interface of research, medicine and psychosocial crosstalk. It brought a new focus to the current scientific perspective, with implications from the latest political decisions in sex testing in elite sports.

November 10, 2025 / Events / AcademicLecture, brainresearch, BrainScience, DaphnaJoel, DistinguishedLecturerSeries, GenderAndBrain, GenderDiversity, GenderMosaic, genderstudies, iRTG, neuroscience, NeuroscienceResearch, Neurowissenschaften, RethinkingSexAndGender, ScienceEvent, ScienceLecture, Sexdiversity, SFB1665, StayCurious, TelAvivUniversity

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Distinguished Lecturer Series – Daphna Joel Lecture Now Available on YouTube

In this lecture, Daphna Joel challenges the long-held assumption of a sex binary in neuroscience and psychology. Drawing on her research, she demonstrates that most human brains are unique “mosaics” of features more common in either women or men. This finding suggests that sex alone explains very little about brain structure or behavior, calling for a reevaluation of how we study and understand sex and gender in the brain.