8.15am Registration
Arrival tea and coffee

8.30am AGM of ASDR

SESSION 1: CUTANEOUS BIOLOGY

8.55am Welcome and Introduction

9.00am Professor Eugene Healy (UK)
Melanocortin 1 Receptor Biology and Skin

9.30am Professor Kristian Reich (Germany)
TBA

10.00am Professor Ross Barnetson
[Nle4-D-Phe7]-alpha-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone, significantly increased pigmentation and decreased UV damage in fairskinned Caucasian volunteers

10.15am Professor Rodney Sinclair
Female pattern hair loss, dandruff and greying of hair in twins

10.30am A/Prof Dedee Murrell
Heterozygous carriers of an intragenic deletion in the gene encoding collagen XVII, COL17A1: 823delA, exhibit dental abnormalities in a family with non-Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa

10.45am Dr Heidemarie Rossiter
Cre/loxP-mediated inactivation of vascular endothelial growth factor in keratinocytes sensitizes mouse skin to UVB-induced photo-damage

11.00am Poster Session 1: Morning tea

SESSION 2: STEM CELLS & TISSUE ENGINEERING

11.30am Dr Jane Visvader
Isolation and identification of breast stem cells

12.00pm Professor Wayne Morrison
Adipose Tissue engineering

12.30pm A/Prof Stephen Jane
There is a fly in the wound

1.00pm Poster Session 2: Lunch

SESSION 3: SKIN CANCER

2.00pm A/Prof Nicholas Saunders
Glutathione peroxidase deficiency contributes to UV-induced SCC formation: implications for prophylactic treatments for cutaneous SCC

2.30pm Dr Rhonda Kwong
Effects of E2F-1 over-expression upon proliferation and DNA repair in UVA-irradiated SCC9 cell lines

2.45pm Dr Vivienne Reeve
Radiation sources providing increasing UVA/UVB ratios result in increasing UVA dose-dependent photoprotection in mice

3.00pm Dr Angleo Sklavos
Genetic pathways to melanoma

3.15pm Poster Session 3: Afternoon tea

SESSION 4: POLARITY AND IMMUNE REGULATION

3.45pm Dr Sarah Russell
The Polarity Network in Immune Function: Parallels between epithelial cells and lymphocytes

4.15pm Dr Patrick Humbert
The polarity regulator Scribble in epithelial migration and cancer

4.45pm Dr Shelley Gorman
CD4+ T regulatory cells that accumulate in the skin draining lymph nodes of UVB irradiated mice are poised to regulate systemic immune responses

5.00pm Dr Yasmin Renwick
Determination of an action spectrum for ultraviolet radiationinduced suppression of cutaneous recall responses in humans

5.15pm Conclusion

5.30pm Close