Dr Severine Lamon is an Associate Professor within Deakin University’s School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition and an ARC Future Fellow. Severine is a molecular biologist by training, and her research program focuses on the sex differences in skeletal muscle adaptation to health and disease, with a focus on investigating the role of sex hormones in muscle adaptation to ageing using cell, animal and human models. Severine is also the Victorian director of the Centre for Sex & Gender Equity in Health and Medicine, and the National Secretary of the Australian Physiological Society.