Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Dental College has organized CDE entitled “GENETICS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENTAL SEXUAL DISORDERS” for I year BDS students on 08 th February 2019 at 11.00 am, the speaker was Dr. Dinesh Kumar. K, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public health, Central University of Tamil nadu, Thiruvarur. The speaker was felicitated by Mrs. Thenmozhi. M.S HOD and faculties of the department. Dr. Dinesh Premavathy, Lecturer, Department of anatomy, gave the welcome address and introduced the speaker to the audiences. As the CDE program lecture started, the speaker discussed and briefed about the topics on embryological aspects, genes involved in determination of the sex by adding scientific features and historical characters. His lucid way of presentation was explained how sex of an individual is determined by genes, hormones, brain, etc. It was very interesting that the speaker discussed about brain sex and mechanism behind it. Finally the speaker discussed about case reports pertaining to the topic, the session ends with an interaction. Overall the session was very informative and new to the audience.Dr. Ganesh Lakshmanan, Senior Lecturer from Department of Anatomy gave the Vote of thanks.
