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	WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH - DAY 1
08.00 – 16:30	REGISTRATION
08:45 – 09:00	CONFERENCE OPENING AND WELCOME
	Thomas DAWSON Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR President, Skin Research Society Singapore
09.00 – 10.30	SESSION 1: THE WOUND ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY Chair: Keith HARDING, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
09.00 – 09.15	Zee UPTON, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore David BECKER, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Wound care innovation for the tropics - Overview
09.15 – 09.45	Marjana TOMIC-CANIC, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA Human tissue storytelling: mechanisms, diagnostics and new treatments in wound healing
09.45 – 10.00	Moogaambikai Thangaveloo, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Surviving burns: Connexin 43 downregulation prevents burn progression
10.00 – 10.15	Tony PARKER, Queensland University of Technology, Australia How bad is my child’s burn? Differences in blister fluid biochemistry to assess paediatric burn wounds
10.15 – 10.30	Chenghao LIU, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Inflammation-regulated LRG1 orchestrates vessel leakage, angiogenesis and fibroplasia in cutaneous wound healing
10.30 – 11.00	Morning tea break

 

 

11.00 – 12.30	SESSION 2: Mechanisms of Skin Integrity and Differentiation Chair: Zee UPTON, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
11.00 – 11.30	Keith HARDING, Cardiff University, UK Wound healing - can we learn any lessons from approaches to cancer?
11.30 – 11.45	Benjamin William Walters, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore Histone acetylation: A key determiner of keratinocyte fate?
11.45 – 12.00	Thuy Tram DANG, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Investigating the influence of surface charge on biomaterial-mediated wound healing response by non-invasive imaging approach
12.00 – 12.30	Xin LU, University of Oxford, UK Regulating p53 and beyond: From cell death to sudden death
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 15.45	SESSION 3: Wound Healing & The Microbiome - Host-Microbe Interactions Chair: Thomas DAWSON, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
14.00 – 14.30	Elizabeth GRICE, University of Pennsylvania, USA Skin microbiome roles in inflammation and wound healing
14.30 – 14.45	Baptiste Janela, Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore Dermal cDC1 control sustained recruitment and survival of neutrophils through VEGFα secretion in response to cutaneous bacterial infection
14.45 – 15.00	Rathi Saravanan, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Thrombin derived host defense peptide modulates fibroblast growth and suppresses inflammatory response in vitro and in vivo
15.00 – 15.15	Hao LI, Molecular Engineering Laboratory, Singapore Elucidating the functional roles of skin microbial secreted proteases
15.15 – 15.45	Kimberly KLINE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Pathogenic mechanisms of Enterococcus Faecalis biofilm-associated wound infection

 

15.45 – 16.00	Xin LU - Introduction to Key Note Speaker, Birgit LANE
16.00 – 16.30	Birgit LANE, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore Building skin research in Singapore
16.30 – 19.00	Poster Session & Networking Session
	End of Day 1