Designing and Teaching Courses on Sex, Gender, and the Brain: Two Implementations in the Undergraduate Classroom.

Courses on the neuroscience of sex and gender can support inclusive and integrative neuroscience curricula. Developing and teaching such courses, however, can be intimidating for educators due to the subject's complexities and nuances, the increasingly politicized nature of the subject material, and the difficult conversations that the material invites. In this article we discuss how we approached the development of two undergraduate courses on sex, gender and the brain.

A sex-specific switch in a single glial cell patterns the apical extracellular matrix.

Apical extracellular matrix (aECM) constitutes the interface between every tissue and the outside world. It is patterned into diverse tissue-specific structures through unknown mechanisms. Here, we show that a male-specific genetic switch in a single C.

Reimagining journal clubs for inclusive scientific training.

'Canonical' journal clubs, which rely on a presenter guiding a group through the figures of a scientific article, do not fully realize their training potential. We provide a blueprint and resources for effectively leveraging journal clubs to meet specific training objectives and to further equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging goals.

A sex-specific switch in a single glial cell patterns the apical extracellular matrix.

Apical extracellular matrix (aECM) constitutes the interface between every tissue and the outside world. It is patterned into diverse tissue-specific structures through unknown mechanisms. Here, we show that a male-specific genetic switch in a single glial cell patterns the aECM into a ∼200 nm pore, allowing a male sensory neuron to access the environment.