Program & Speakers > Program

We are happy that the scientific committee put together a wonderful program and fantastic speakers agreed to come and give insights into their newest projects.  

There will be invited educational talks and long talks. In addition, 28 short talks will be selected from abstracts and all poster presenters will have the opportunity to make people interested in their work by flash talks for the whole audience. Awards for best poster and best talk will be selected.

You can find a preliminary schedule here. 

We will cover the following topics in the sessions

• Melanosomes, melanin biochemistry
• Melanocyte development and differentiation
• Melanocytic nevi and tumor development
• Albinism, Cutaneous mosaicism and further hereditary pigm. Disorders (incl. heredit. melanoma) 
• Vitiligo, hair graying, further acq. pigment. disorders
• Transcriptional and posttranscript. Regulation, (epi-)genetics
• Melanoma metastasis
• Therapeutic options for pigment cell disease

Please find here a list of all speakers: ESPCR 2025 Speaker

In addition, we are organizing a workshop on Thursday morning on cell culture in pigment cell and melanoma research with the title “Pigment Cell Models: Sensitivity, Innovation, and the Challenges of Cell Culture”. 

 Registration fees: early registration is available until 15th of July 2025 for ESPCR members (440€) and non-ESCR members (580€), special reductions apply for students (300€) and postdocs (350€), who are ESPCR members. 

 More details will follow soon!