Biology of Sex Differences

Below are all the current thematic series open for submissions at the journal.
If our readers have idea for a thematic series for Biology of Sex Differences, the Editors encourage you to submit your idea for a new series by clicking the link here. 

Sex Differences in Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome and the Microbiome
Guest Editor: Kate Denton, Monash University

The Editors of Biology of Sex Differences extend an invitation to submit original research articles related to Sex Differences in Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and the Microbiome.  

Submission Deadline: June, 2019.

Sex Differences in Response to Androgens: Physiological and Pathophysiological
Guest Editor: Licy Yanes Cardozo, University of Mississippi Medical Center
The Editors of Biology of Sex Differences extend an invitation to submit original research articles related to sex differences in response to androgens (both physiological and pathophyiological).  We hope to create a collection of original research articles alongside some commissioned reviews on this important and poorly understood topic and invite researchers in this area to submit to the journal.

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2019. 

Hypertension, preeclampsia, renal and cardiovascular disease in pregnancy
The Editors of Biology of Sex Differences extend an invitation to submit original research and short review articles focusing on associative, mechanistic, and translational studies linking pregnancy, pregnancy hypertension, preeclampsia, renal and cardiovascular diseases as they relate to pregnancy outcomes, placental factors, development of hypertension, congenital diseases and adverse fetal outcomes. The editors encourage submission of both basic science research using animal models and clinically relevant translational studies involving human subjects. 

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2019
Authors may ask about the suitability of a manuscript for inclusion in any of the above series by submitting an pre-submission enquiry. These should be sent to our Editorial Office by using the Contact Us link on the Submission site. 

Read our Submission Guidelines. 
Submit an article to the series.

We hope everyone had a great #ossd2018 meeting in Atlanta and look forward to seeing you all again May 5-8, 2019 at the Washington Marriott Georgetown in Washington, DC.  This will be the 2nd international meeting of the OSSD with the International Gender Medicine Society.

Visit the OSSD website to learn more about the 2019 meeting.

Editor-in-Chief
Jane Reckelhoff, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA

Associate Editors
Barbara Alexander, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA
Kate Denton, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia
Vesna Garovic, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA
Radu Iliescu, Grigore T. Popa University, Romania
Georgios Kararigas, Charité University, Germany

Founding Editor
Arthur P Arnold, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

OSSD Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 5-8, 2019

Sex Differences, Dimorphisms, Divergences: Impact on Brain and Behavior in Health and Disease, Erice, Sicily, Italy, May 20-25, 2019