Visiting Speaker Series

January 25, 2024: Tiffany Scharschmidt, M.D., Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. "Living at Peace with our Skin Bacteria: Early Life Lessons"

February 8, 2024: Tudorita (Doina) Tumbar, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University. "Epithelial Stem Cells in Action: Cell Intrinsic and Niche Related Mechanisms"

February 29, 2024: Michel Gilliet, M.D., Professor & Chair of Dermatology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland “Immune Profiling for Precision Medicine of Inflammatory Skin Diseases” Annual Symposium Keynote Speaker:

April 25, 2024: Sangbum Park, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (Dermatology), and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University. "Capturing Cellular Dynamics During Wound Repair in Live Mice"

May 9, 2024: Noah Hornick, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University: "Disentangling Cutaneous irAE from their Namesake Dermatoses"

January 26, 2023: Emily Bernstein, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Remodeling Chromatin in Cancer"

February 2, 2023: Nicole Ward, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, "Mouse models of skin disease in 2040: is there a future?"

March 2, 2023 Annual Symposium Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth A. Grice, Ph.D., Sandra J. Lazarus Associate Professor in Dermatology, and Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.“Skin Microbiome: Risk and Reward for Barrier Integrity and Repair”

November 16 2023: Sonya Wolf-Fortune, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Molecular & Integrative Physiology (Katherine Gallagher Lab), University of Michigan Medical School. "Epigenetic Regulation in Chronic Skin Inflammatory Conditions"

December 14, 2023: Cristina de Guzman Strong, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health. "Understanding Human Skin Barrier Evolution and Health Disparities using Multi-Omics" 

March 3, 2022 Annual Symposium Keynote Speaker: Robert L. Modlin, M.D. Klein Professor of Dermatology, Division of Dermatology, and Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.“Acne: A Disease of Lipid Metabolism.” 

September 8, 2022: Scott Atwood, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, "Defining epithelial development and dysfunction"

September 20, 2022: Brian C. Capell, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, "Chromatin at the Nexus of Epithelial Development, Differentiation, and Cancer"

November 10, 2022: Cory Simpson, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Dermatology University of Washington, "Illuminating Organelle Dynamics in Epidermal Differentiation and Disease"

December 15, 2022: Colin Jamora Ph.D., Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Homeostasis Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine Bangalore, India "The Matricellular Protein Mindin Drives Fibrogenesis in a Mouse Model of Scleroderma"

March 4, 2021 - 2021 Annual Symposium Keynote Speaker
Richard Gallo, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine: "Lessons From the Skin Microbiome in Innate Immunity and Human Disease"

March 18, 2021
Feiyang Ma, Ph.D., Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles: “Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Defines the Cellular Architecture of the Antimicrobial Response Network in Human Leprosy Granulomas”

April 1, 2021
Lindsey Seldin, Ph.D., Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: "Impact of DNA Damage on Epidermal Homeostasis and Stem Cell Fate" 

August 26, 2021
Masanori Matsumoto, Ph.D., Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School: "Sensing and Reacting to Staphylococcus Aureus in the Skin"

October 28, 2021
Pantelis Rompolas, Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine: "Heterogeneity and Regulation of Stem Cells in Stratified Epithelia"

November 4, 2021
Terry Lechler, Ph.D., Departments of Dermatology and Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine: "Epithelial Morphogenesis and Differentiation"

December 16, 2021
Vicky Werth, M.D., Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: "Dermatomyositis: New Insights into Disease Mechanisms"

February 20, 2020
Luis Garza, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: “Appendage Regeneration”

March 2, 2020 - 2020 Annual Symposium Keynote Speaker
Michael D. Rosenblum, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine: "Immune Regulation in Skin"

October 29, 2020
Bethany Perez White, Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine: "Checks and Balances: Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks Ensure Epidermal Homeostasis"

November 12, 2020
Lynn Petukhova, Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Columbia University: "Leveraging biomedical data resources to improve our understanding of hidradenitis suppurativa"

December 17, 2020
Xiaomin Bao, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University: "Transcriptional regulation of human epidermal tissue regeneration”