Sunday, 19th May ASPCR-ASDR Conference 2013

• Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV); the Achilles Heel of Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) - Denise Galloway

• UV irradiation of skin alters dendritic cell progenitors in the bone marrow - Prue H Hart
• Using imaging to study regulatory t cell recruitment to and behaviour in the skin - Michael J Hickey
• Visualising keratinocyte stress to understand rare diseases and wound healing - E Birgitte Lane

• Combination of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) isolated from human term placenta improve angiogenesis in skin wounds - Jatin Patel
• In Vivo Quantitative Monitoring of Wnt/B-Catenin Signalling in Skin Reveals macroscopic Hair Cycle Dynamics in health and disease - Kiarash Khosrotehrani
• Yap Controls Stem/Progenitor Cell Proliferation in the Mouse Postnatal Epidermis. - Annemiek Beverdam
• Filaggrin-null mice exhibit impaired stratum corneum barrier and enhanced percutaneous immune responses     - Hiroshi Kawasaki
• A novel epigenetic regulator of epidermal proliferation in specific facial zones. - Stephen J Palmer
• Autophagy contributes to maintaining function of aged dermal fibroblasts - Kanae Tashiro
• Role of UV radiation in activating cell signalling pathways and their effect on TNFɑ release in human keratinocyte-derived cell lines - Terrence J Piva
• Enhanced elongate microparticle drug delivery in excised human skin and volunteers - Anthony P Raphael

• Platelets contribute to leukocyte recruitment to skin using distinct sets of adhesion molecules in contact hypersensitivity - Risa Tamagawa-Mineoka
• Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment recovers the down-regulated  levels of Th1 cytokines in the sera and skin of scleroderma patients - Hideo Kudo
• Topical 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, applied post-UV radiation to human volunteers, protects against three types of DNA damage, in part through XPC and DDB2 upregulation. - Eric J Song
• Technology-Driven Translational Skin Cancer Research - Tarl W Prow
• Interim Analysis of STEVIE, a Single-Arm, Open-Label, Multicentre Study to Evaluate the Safety of the Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor Vismodegib in Patients with Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) - Dedee F Murrell
• A quantitative approach to histopathological dissection of elastin-related disorders using multiphoton microscopy - Philip L Tong
• Characterization of a micro-biopsy device for detection of skin diseases’ biomarkers - Lynlee L Lin

Poster session continued

• Is there a hierarchy in the interfollicular epidermis? - Kiarash Khosrotehrani
• Muscle progenitor cell biology in muscle growth and regeneration in the zebrafish - Peter D Currie
• The role of the Grainyhead-like factors in epidermal homeostasis and repair - Stephen M Jane

• Brm is a tumour suppressor gene that protects from UV-induced skin and ocular cancer - Gary M. Halliday
• The three musketeers of the epidermal barrier and atopic dermatitis - Masayuki Amagai
• Dual origin of melanocytes defined by Sox1 expression and their region-specific distribution in mammalian skin - Takahiro Kunisada