2007 Pigment Cell Development Workshop - Workshop Program

2007 Pigment Cell Development Workshop Oddi, Room 101 University of Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland June 14-15, 2007

Workshop Program

Thursday, June 14

• 8:00 a.m. Registration is open at the University of Iceland, Oddi building
  
  
• 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Poster Set-Up
  
  

Session I: 9:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

• 9:00-9:10 Introduction
  
  
• 9:10-9:50 Flavie Luciani
  E-cadherin expression regulates epidermal melanocyte development.
  
  
• 9:50-10:30 Veronique Delmas and Lionel Larue
  Too much or too little b-catenin represses melanoblast proliferation.
  
  
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  
  
• 11:00-11:40 Alexander Schepsky
  Acetylation mediated switch in progression from stem cell to differentiation
  
  
• 11:40-12:20 Lionel Larue
  Non-classical melanocytes located in the heart are involved in the closure of the ductus arteriosus
  
  
• 12:20 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

Session II: 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

• 2:00-2:40 Takahiro Kunisada
  Melanocyte transplantation experiments
  
  
• 2:40-3:20 Jean-Jacques Panthier
  Premature melanocyte differentiation in notch/RBP-J mutants
  
  
• 3:20-4:00 Luisa Lanfrancone
  RaLP, a new member of the Shc family, is expressed early during development in the mouse
  
  
• 4:00-4:30 Coffee break
  
  
• 4:30-5:10 Colin Goding
  T-box factors in melanocytes and melanoma
  
  
• 5:10-5:50 Lars Rönnstrand
  A role of hypoxia inducible factor 1a in stem cell factor/c-Kit induced gene expression
  
  
• 6:30 p.m. Dinner
  
  

Friday, June 15

Session III: 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

• 9:00-9:40 Robert Kelsch
  Pigment pattern formation in zebrafish embryos
  
  
• 9:40-10:20 Bill Pavan
  A sensitzed mutagensis screen for neural crest mutations
  
  
• 10:20-10:50 Coffee break
  
  
• 10:50-11:30 Heinz Arnheiter
  The role of Mitf isoforms during pigment cell development
  
  
• 11:30-12:10 Francesca Pignoni
  Drosophila Mitf, a surprising case of evolutionary conservation?
  
  
• 12:10-12:50 Lluis Montoliu
  Hearing loss in mice with oculocutaneous albinism type I
  
  
• 12:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

Posters Removed