Skin Epigenetics

Amphitheatre C

Date: Saturday 21 September 2019, 14.00-17.00
Room: Amphitheatre C

Organisers: Salvador Aznar Benitah (Barcelona) and Vladimir Botchkarev (Boston)

Program

14.00-14.05 Introductory remarks
Salvador Aznar Benitah (Barcelona) and Vladimir Botchkarev (Boston)
14.05-14.40 Opening Keynote Lecture
HDAC functions in skin homeostasis and disease
Sarah Millar (New York)
14.40-15.00  DNA hydroxymethylation and TET enzymes in the control of skin development and regeneration
Mike Fessing (Bradford)

15.00-15.20 DNA hydroxymethylation and TET enzymes in the control of hair growth
Andrei Mardaryev (Bradford)

15.20-15.40 Transcription factor p63, a master regulator of the enhancer landscape during epidermal differentiation
Jo Zhou (Nijmegen)

15.40-16.00  Mechanisms of long non-coding RNA-mediated control of epidermal homeostasis
Markus Kretz (Regensburg)

16.00-16.20  Biomechanical regulation of nuclear architecture in keratinocytes
John Connelly (London)

16.20-16.55 Closing Keynote Lecture
Defective chromatin-mediated transcriptional silencing and aberrant enhancer activity in multiple sclerosis
Christian Muchardt (Paris)

16.55-17.00  Closing remarks
Salvador Aznar Benitah (Barcelona) and Vladimir Botchkarev (Boston)

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