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Program & Speakers > Schedule
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Thursday, 25 September 2025 |
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| 12:30 – 16:30 | Registration | |
| 08:30 – 13:00 | Workshop: Pigment Cell Models: Sensitivity, Innovation, and the Challenges of Cell Culture (Pre-registration needed!) | |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | ESPCR Board meeting (Room: 01.023-2 "kleiner Seminarraum") | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 |
Welcome Session Opening Remarks (President of ESPCR, Congress Chair) Fritz Anders Medal (Manfred Schartl) |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 |
Session 1: Melanosomes, melanin biochemistry (Chairs: Graca Raposo, Dvir Gur) |
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| 14:30 – 14:50 | From melanosome biogenesis to intercellular communication (Educational Talk) | Graça Raposo |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Genetic and biochemical regulation of crystal formation in pigment cells (Long Talk) | Dvir Gur |
| 15:05 – 15:15 |
Cytoskeleton-Driven 3D-Polarization of Pigment Organelles for Genome Photo-Protection in Keratinocyte (from abstracts) |
Cédric Delevoye |
| 15:15 – 15:25 | Investigating the protective role of Melanin in Retinal Pigment Epithelium during Age-Related Macular Degeneration (from abstracts) | Mafalda Lopes-da-Silva |
| 15:25 – 15:35 | Melanoma-associated melanocortin 1 receptor variants confer redox signaling-dependent protection against oxidative DNA damage (from abstracts) | Maria Castejón-Griñan |
| 15:35 – 15:50 | Shedding light on the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor roles in pigmentation | Pedro Moura-Alves |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Refreshments | |
| 16:30 – 18:15 |
Session 2: Melanocyte development and differentiation (Chairs: Kerrie Marie, Miguel Seabra) |
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| 16:30 – 16:50 | Cross-talk between melanocytes and keratinocytes in the skin (Educational Talk) | Duarte Barral |
| 16:50 – 17:05 | Embryonic gene module re-expression in melanoma yields insights into a Hdac2-driven mechanism of plastic adaptation (Long Talk) | Kerrie Marie |
| 17:05 – 17:15 | Role of TMEM138 and the primary cilium in melanogenesis (from abstracts) | Brice Magne |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Pigment cell formation from the zebrafish neural crest (from abstracts) | Robert Kelsh |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Integrated single cell and bulk RNA transcriptomics identifies novels markers of developing melanocytes from distinct anatomical regions (Long Talk) |
Farah Jaber-Hijazi |
| 17:40 – 17:55 | Determinants of melanocyte heterogeneity (Long Talk) | Richard White |
| 17:55– 18:03 | Molecular basis of melanosome transport: how does small GTPase Rab27a rule Spire-type actin nucleators to disperse melanosomes (from abstracts) | Alistair Hume |
| 18:10 – 18:20 | short break | |
| 18:20 – 19:15 | Flash talks session #1 (Poster teasers; Poster #1-#20) | |
| 19:15 – 21:00 | Welcome reception, POSTER SESSION #1 | |
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Friday, 26 September 2025 |
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| 8:00 – 14:30 | Registration | |
| 8:30 – 10:30 |
Session 3: Melanocytic nevi and tumor development (Chairs: Heather Etchevers, Lukas Sommer) |
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| 8:30 – 8:50 | Seeds of Cancer: How Malignant Cells and Their Environment Spark Tumor Initiation (Educational Talk) | Lukas Sommer |
| 8:55 – 9:10 | A mouse MITF suppressor mutation and melanoma (Long Talk) | Eirikur Steingrimmson |
| 9:15 – 9:25 | Basigin (CD147) emerges as potential quantitative biomarker from comparative proteomic analysis of the surfaceome of human epidermal melanocytes and melanoma cells (from abstracts) | Minh Ngoc Nguyen |
| 9:25 – 9:35 | The role of RSL24D1 in malignant melanoma (from abstracts) | Leonie Stahl |
| 9:35 – 9:50 | Monitoring and mitigating cancer cell plasticity to overcome therapy resistance in melanoma (Long Talk) | Chris Marine |
| 9:50 – 10:00 | Role of NRF2 in melanoma reprogramming (from abstracts) | Ravi Babu Kollampally |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Identity crisis: stemness in the human melanocyte lineage (Long Talk) | Heather Etchevers |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshments | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 4: Albinism, Cutaneous mosaicism and further hereditary pigm. Disorders (Chairs: Lluis Montoliu) |
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| 11:00 – 11:25 | Albinism: beyond hypopigmentation (Educational Talk) | Lluis Montoliu |
| 11:25 – 11:42 | Albinism, Culture, and Society. An Approach to Albinism from a Social and Interactional Perspective (Long Talk) | Jose Antonio Solves Almela |
| 11:42 – 11:52 | Establishment of a Human Melanocyte Model Harboring the GNAS R201H Mutation for McCune-Albright Syndrome (from abstracts) | Sakai Yuta |
| 11:52 – 12:02 | The Role of Adam10 and Notch Signalling in Skin Pigmentation: Insights from Reticulate Acropigmentation of Kitamura (RAK) (from abstracts) | Hannah Bourget |
| 12:02 – 12:19 | Albinism genetics: not so black and white (Long Talk) | Panos Sergouniotis |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Short break | |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Flash talk session #2: Poster teasers | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch - POSTER SESSION #2 – (Poster teasers; Poster #21-#40) | |
| 14:00 – 15:40 |
Session 5: Vitiligo, hair graying, further acq. pigment. Disorders (Chairs: Meri Tulic, Mauro Picardo) |
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| 14:00 – 14:20 | Metabolic alteration in Vitiligo (Educational Talk) | Mauro Picardo |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | New aspects of vitiligo: Trained immunity and immune-biological changes during therapy (Long Talk) | Rosalie Luiten |
| 14:35 – 14:45 | Transcriptomic profiling of minimally invasive 1 mm skin punch biopsies identifies early disease activity beyond visible depigmentation in vitiligo (from abstracts) | Danique Berrevoet |
| 14:45 – 14:55 | Dissecting the cellular and immune landscape of vitiligo using single-cell transcriptomic analysis (from abstracts) | Hyun Jeong Ju |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Vitiligo as an emerging topic for Health Services Research in Germany – current status and future directions (Long Talk) | Markus Böhm |
| 15:15 – 15:25 | Non-invasive Imaging Findings in Vitiligo (from abstracts) | Alessia Paganelli |
| 15:25 – 15:40 | Early Repigmentation Approach for Stopping the Evolution of vitiligo: A prospective multicentric translational study (Long Talk) | Meri Tulic |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Refreshments | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Session 6: Transcriptional and posttranscript. Regulation, (epi-)genetics (Chairs: Panagiotis Karras, Marie-Dominique Galibert) |
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| 16:00 – 16:20 | From Gene Expression to Epigenetics: Regulatory Mechanisms Fueling Melanoma Pathogenesis (Educational Talk) | Marie-Dominique Galibert |
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16:20 – 16:35 |
Dissecting intratumor heterogeneity in melanoma metastasis (Long Talk) | Panagiotis Karras |
| 16:35 – 16:45 | Epigenetic control of bivalent genes during normal and oncogenic melanocyte differentiation (from abstracts) | Zelu Huang |
| 16:45 – 16:55 | SOX21 – a transcription factor preventing melanoma (from abstracts) | Nicole Rachinger |
| 16:55 – 17:10 | All that Remains: Melanoma Residual Disease and Disease Recurrence (Long Talk) | Liz Patton |
| 17:10 – 17:20 | Enhancer reprogramming by AP-1 shapes mesenchymal phenotype in melanoma (from abstracts) | Zubeir El Ahmad |
| 17:20 – 17:35 | LncRNAs in melanoma therapy resistance (Long Talk) | Eleonora Leucci |
| 17:45 – 18:45 | ESPCR General Assembly (Room: 01.023-1 "großer Seminarraum") | |
| 19:30 |
Award Dinner |
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Saturday, 27 September 2025 |
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| 8:00 – 9:30 | Registration | |
| 9:00 – 10:45 |
Session 7: Melanoma metastasis (Chairs: Luisa Lanfrancone, Colin Goding) |
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| 9:00 – 9:20 | Phenotype-switching and Melanoma metastasis (Educational Talk) | Colin Goding |
| 9:20 – 9:35 | Targeting metabolic liabilities in cancer metastasis (Long Talk) | Alpaslan Tasdogan |
| 9:35 – 9:45 | Unveiling the role of lipid metabolism in controlling cellular plasticity in metastatic melanoma (from abstracts) |
Lisa Mary |
| 9:45 – 9:55 | The effects of extracellular acidosis on tumor cell plasticity in human melanoma (from abstracts) | Chafia Chiheb |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | MyD88 plays a crucial role in promoting the dissemination of melanoma cells (Long Talk) | Luisa Lanfrancone |
| 10:15 – 10:25 | Investigating epithelial to mesenchymal transition heterogeneity in primary and metastatic uveal melanoma samples (from abstracts) | Nathalie Longakit |
| 10:25 – 10:40 | Melanosomes role in melanoma immunity | Carmit Levy |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Refreshments | |
| 11:15 - 12:50 |
Session 8: Therapeutic options for pigment cell disease (Chairs: Carola Berking, Corinne Bertolotto) |
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| 11:15 – 11:35 | Melanoma Therapy: Chances and Challenges (Educational Talk) | Carola Berking |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Synergistic effects of thiopurines and immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma therapy (Long Talk) | Daniela de Zio |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | RECQL4 overexpression as a driver of immune suppression and immunotherapy resistance in melanoma (from abstracts) | Egea-Rodriguez S |
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Alginate based 3D cell culture as a useful tool in Melanoma (from abstracts) | Carolin Eckert |
| 12:10 – 12:20 | RNA-based therapy to reach unmet needs in melanoma: ASOs against the driver gene TERT (from abstracts) | Nina Tardif |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | The molecular mechanisms involved in uveal melanoma (Long Talk) | Corinne Bertolotto |
| 12:50 – 13:20 | Key Note Speech | Marisol Soengas |
| 13:20 – 13:30 |
Concluding Remarks (President of ESPCR, Congress Chair ESPCR 2025, Congress Chair 2027) |
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| 13:30 | End of ESPCR 2025 annual meeting | |
