Theme       Hair research and stem cells     Welcome Message       In the morning on the third day (Sunday, December 6, 2009) of the 34th JSID Annual Meeting, the third JSID Forum will be held in the same place. The main theme of the forum is "Hair Research and Stem Cells", and many hot topics from the studies of the hair and stem cells of the skin will be presented. The name of the forum will be changed to JSID-Asia-Oceania Forum, because the speakers who are working in this research field are invited not only from Japan but also from other countries in Asia and Oceania, including Korea, China, Taiwan and Australia. The invited speakers from the US and Europe will also present their newest findings. All the attendees in this forum should get many new ideas for their future research. I do hope that many dermatological researchers will participate in this forum, also.     Date       December 6 (Sun.) 8:30-13:30     Place       Room A (JAL Resort Sea Hawk Hotel Fukuoka ARGOS E+F)     Invited Speakers       1. Update on hair follicle stem cells       George Cotsarelis (Department of Dermatology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA)     2. Functions of Dicer and miRNAs in the skin and hair follicles       Sarah E. Millar (Departments of Dermatology and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. USA)     3. Immune privilege and human hair follicle epithelial stem cells: Basic concepts, open questions, and clinical relevance       Ralf Paus (Department of Dermatology University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck University of Luebeck, Germany)     4. Importance of integral hair lipid in structural integrity of hair       Won-Soo Lee (Department of Dermatology, Institute of Hair and Cosmetic Medicine Yonsei University, Wonju College of Medicine, Korea)     5. Loss-of-function mutations of an inhibitory upstream ORF in the human hairless transcript cause Marie Unna hereditary hypotrichosis       Chundi He (Department of Dermatology, No.1 Hospital of China Medical University, China)     6. Tissue engineering for hair follicle regeneration: hype and hope       Sung-Jan Lin (Institute of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Dermatology, National Taiwan University)     7. Biological characterisation of human keratinocyte stem and progenitor cells from neonatal skin.       Pritinder Kaur (Epithelial Stem Cell Biology Laboratory Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Australia)     8. The roles of bulge stem cells and trichogenic dermal cells in the bioengineering of human hair follicles       Manabu Ohyama (Department of Dermatology Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)     9. From adipose to hair biology: Leptin acts as a new anagen inducer       Shigeki Inui (Department of Regenerative Dermatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)     10. Multipotent nestin-positive hair follicle pluripotent stem (hfPS) cells can promote regeneration of impinged severed peripheral-nerve injury.       Yasuyuki Amoh (Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan)     JSID-Asia-Oceania-Forum Social Gathering(Buffet Party)       Date: December 5 (Sat.) 18:10-20:00 Place: Hard Rock Cafe     ＊ Included in the registration fee. Pre-registration is recommended. You could register from our website Registration Page. Deadline of pre-registration: October 30(Fri.)