"39JSID" Dates: December 12(Fri.)-14(Sun.), 2014 / Venue: Hotel Hankyu Expopark, JAPAN / Theme: Global Tuning of Innovative Dermatology

Tight Junction Claudin-based Foundations of Biological Systems: Advances in the Field of Barriology

Sachiko Tsukita
(Laboratory of Biological Science, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences and Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan)

Mechanical coherence of epithelial tissues: the role of active cell-cell junctions.

Alpha S. Yap
(Division of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

Intravital multiphoton microscopy visualizing an ‘invisible hand’ controlling immune cell dynamics in vivo

Masaru Ishii
(Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University WPI-Immunology Frontier Research Center, & JST, CREST, Japan)

Multiphoton and harmonic generation microscopy in skin imaging

Sung-Jan Lin
(Taiwan Bio-development Foundation (TBF) Chair in Biotechnology Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Dermatology & Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Intravital multiphoton imaging of cutaneous immune responses

Kenji Kabashima
(Department of Dermatology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Epithelial tubulogenesis by growth factor signaling and tumorigenesis due to its abnormality

Akira Kikuchi
(Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan)

Coculture of melanocytes with adipose-derived stem cells for vitiligo treatment (as a potential substitute for coculture with keratinocytes)

Ai Young Lee
(Department of Dermatology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea)

Exploring the mechanism of warmth-provoked itch: artemin causes systemic hypersensitivity to heat via sensitizing the brain

Hiroyuki Murota
(Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan)

Perivascular macrophages mediate neutrophil recruitment during bacterial skin infection

Wolfgang Weninger
(The Centenary Institute, Australia; Discipline of Dermatology, Sydney Medical School, Australia; Department of Dermatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia)