External Speaker: Claudia Barth

We are happy to announce a special guest talk by Claudia Barth from the Diakonhjemmet Hospital (Oslo) on September, 19th at 14:00 (CET). The topic will be: „Harnessing big data to study female brain and mental health„ For everybody interested: You have the possibility to attend the talk online! Zoom […]

External Speaker: Jolien Trekels

We are happy to announce a special guest talk by Jolien Trekels from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on July, 25th at 14:00 (CET). She will be presenting her research on the intersection  of media psychology, body image, and early adolescence at the psychiatry lecture hall. For everybody interested: You have […]

FENS Forum 2024

We are happy to announce that Zsófia Karlòcai will be presenting a poster at the FENS Forum 2024 (International Neuroscience Conference) in Vienna, Austria. On June 27th at 2 pm she will talk about Developmental differences in reward-learning and functional connectivity. The responsible organizations are the FENS, the ANA and […]

The IRTG 2804 informs about women’s mental health

We are happy to announce that our phd researchers will join the Mitmach-Konferenz on Saturday, June 15th (from 4pm) at the Radkutsche (72147, Nehren). They will inform about the state of the scientific knowledge concerning women’s mental health. There will be food & beverages, as well as childcare. Join the […]

A new IRTG milestone!

We are thrilled to announce that our PhD researcher Gloria Matte-Bon has published the first research article of the IRTG. The article titled “Modeling brain sex in the limbic system as phenotype for female-prevalent mental disorders” was published in the journal Biology of Sex Difference. In this paper, Gloria used […]

SABV Symposium 2024

We are happy to announce our speaker for the Symposium about Sex as a biological variable (SABV) 2024. On June 13th (2:10pm), Zoé Bürger will talk about “Feeling stressed? Stress response differs in women using intra-uterine or oral hormonal contraception and naturally cycling women“. The SABV will be animal study […]

The WissKomm Ambassador 2024

We congratulate our PhD candidate Franziska Weinmar on being awarded the Prize for Science Communication 2024 at the PuG conference in Hamburg (June, 1st). This prize is awarded by bioDGPs & DGPA and sponsored by NIRx. She received the prize for our IRTG Podcast “Let’s Talk About Women” and became […]

Self-Defense Course

We are thanking the coaches of @sportfabrik_winterhalter (Instagram) for the  women’s self defense course on May, 26th. Our PhD-candidates, post-docs and research assistants learned a lot about prevention and de-escalation of possible attacks. Also interventions and aftercare in case of an actual attack were discussed and trained together in actual […]

The IRTG 2804 joins the PuG-Conference 2024

We are happy to announce our contribution to the PuG Conference 2024. The talks will be part of the Symposium „The Brain on Gonadal Hormones: Uncovering the Interplay between Affect and Brain Dynamics“ on Friday, 31st at 12:30 (CET). The Symposium is organized by Anna Denninger and chaired together with Tobias […]

IRTG 2804 Talk: Nicole Petersen

We are happy to announce a very exciting talk on May 14th at 12:30 (CET), about Brain SHAPERs: Sex Hormones with Affective, Psychological, and Endocrine Roles given by Nicole Petersen from the University of California. For everybody interested: You have the possibility to attend the talk online! Zoom link upon request to:  

Talks for the OSSD 18th Annual Meeting

We are happy to announce our speakers for the OSSD 18th Annual Meeting. On May 7th, Gloria Matte-Bon will present a poster about Brain sex in the limbic system as phenotype for pubertal development. On May 9th, Melina Grahlow will talk about Sex differences in motivation: Hormonal modulation of cost-benefit […]

IRTG 2804 Talk: Arianna Di Florio

We are happy to announce a very exciting talk on April 4th at 14:15 (CET), about Genetic signatures for psychiatric sensitivity to sex hormones changes given by Arianna Di Florio from the University of Cardiff.  For everybody interested: You have the possibility to attend the talk online! Zoom link upon request to:  

IRTG 2804 Workshop: Michael Decker

On March 11th we are happy to welcome Michael Decker. He will conduct an interesting workshop about the Supervision of BSc and MSc Students (MINT).