Saturday, 18th May ASPCR-ASDR Conference 2013

Ms Jessica James-Chadwick
The long-term psychological and psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents with burn scarring

• Distinct biologic subtypes and their impact on therapy and disease classification - Boris Bastian

• The future of targeted therapy for melanoma - Grant A McArthur
• Pervasive and intrinsic evolutionary potential in human melanoma cells - M Shackleton
• Melanoma Heterogeneity, Resistance to MAP Kinase Inhibitors and Implications for Systemic Therapy - Georgina Long

• Mouse models of albinism and collaborative efforts towards the systematic genetic diagnosis of all known forms of albinism - Lluis Montoliu
• Parallel genetic and cellular analysis of human melanogenesis - R A Sturm
• Mapping naevus and melanoma modifier genes utilizing Collaborative Cross mice - Graeme J Walker

• Melanomas of unknown primary have a mutation profile consistent with cutaneous sun exposed melanoma - Ken Dutton-Regester
• Melanoma resistance to combination BRAF and MEK inhibition - Helen Rizos
• Overcoming tumor escape mechanisms  in human melanoma with inhibitors of the HDAC and BET protein   epigenetic regulators   - Peter Hersey

Poster session continued

• Presence of NGFRp75 positive dermal stem cells in the vitiligo lesions - Ravinder Kumar
• Comparison between autologus noncultured extracted hair follicle outer root sheath cell suspension and autologous non cultured epidermal cell suspension in the treatment of stable vitiligo: a randomized study - Chandeep singh
• Exploring the role of IRF4 in melanocyte biology: modulation of interferon signalling and pigmentation - Aaron Smith
• The effect of MC1R variants and sunscreen on the response of human melanocytes in vivo to ultraviolet radiation - Elke Hacker
• Irradiated keratinocytes affect melanocyte stem cells to lead hair graying. - Hitomi AOKI
• Study of 1000 cases  of hypopigmented facial skin lesion  in children at an outpatient skin clinic in a tertiary care hospital in sri lanka - MKD Tissera
• UVR protection in human melanocytic cells by dopachrome tautomerase - Stephen A Ainger
• Exploring signalling pathways co-ordinating the melanocyte UV response: identification of a novel role for the NR4A2 orphan nuclear receptor in DNA repair - Kelvin Yin

• MITF and Rab27a regulate melanoma proliferation and invasion - Kimberley A Beaumont
• Induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress as a strategy for melanoma therapy - Nikolas K Haass
• A predominantly melanoma-specific microRNA targets the tumour suppressor NF1 - Mitchell S Stark
• Immunohistochemical analysis of BRAF V600E staining of primary melanomas arising in association with a naevus. - Hojabr Kakavand
• BRAF/NRAS wild-type melanomas have a high mutation load correlating with histological and molecular signatures of UV damage   - Victoria Mar
• Detection of primary melanoma in individuals at extreme high risk: a prospective five-year follow-up study - E Coates
• Analysis of the molecular mechanism of the apoptosis induced by N-propionyl-4-S-cysteaminylphenol in melanoma cells - Yasue Ishii-Osai
• Melanoma cell plasticity characterized by a CD271high phenotypic shift drives the process of acquired drug resistance - Helmut Schaider

• Managing Melasma: of Art and Science - Boon Kee Goh
• Chemical peels for melasma - Rashmi Sarkar
• Deoxyarbutin: From Lab Bench, Through Development, and to Market - Raymond E Boissy

• New approaches to generating Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes for melanoma therapy  - Rod Dunbar
• Regulation of melanoma cell migration and invasion by microRNAs - Keith Giles
• A novel UV-induced DNA damage checkpoint and repair response that is commonly defective in melanomas - Brian Gabrielli

Poster session continued