| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Skin disorders and barrier function |
| Discussion leader: Manige Fartasch |
| Walter Holleran
Environmental factors and cutaneous stressors play a role in disease progression |
| Genji Imokawa
Barrier disruption in atopic dermatitis - biochemical background |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mechanism of stratum corneum formation |
| Discussion leader: Peter Elias |
| Steve Boyce
Formation of SC during wound healing |
| Steven Hoath
Vernix -its physiological role in uterus and after birth |
| Kathi Madison
Lamellar granule biogenesis |
| Mathias Schmuth
How do abnomalities in brick constituents cause barrier abnormalities? |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Vesicles - mechanism of action |
| Discussion leader: Richard Guy |
| Gregor Cevc
opinion 1 |
| Loan Honeywell
opinion 2 |
| Adrian Williams
opinion 3 |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Desquamation and barrier function |
| Discussion leader: Tony Rawling |
| Guy Serre
Corneodesmosomes, corneodesmosin, corneocyte cohesion and desquamation |
| Dominique Bernard
winter xerosis |
| Eleonora Candi
Desquamation and barrier function |
| Lieve Declercq
Barrier adaptation to seasonal and geographical
variations in climate |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Stratum corneum lipid organization |
| Discussion leader: Jennifer Thewalt |
| Miranda de Jager
Organization in stratum corneum lipid mixtures
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| Erwin London
Structure and function of sphingolipid- and cholesterol-rich membrane rafts |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Drug delivery |
| Chair: Annete Bunge |
| Begoña Delgado-Charro
Reverse Iontophoresis: What's new? What's next? |
| Leonard Shore
Peptide transport across stratum corneum |
| Sek Wen Hui
Electroporation: drug transport and skin ultrastructure |
| Daniel Blankschtein
Ultrasound-enhanced drug transport |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot session |
| Chair: Gerald Kasting |
| Martin Behne
pH distribution in human stratum corneum |
| Georgia Charalambopoulou
Water distribution studies on porcine stratum corneum |
| Galit Levin
Transdermal delivery of human growth hormone through microchannels created by RF-ablation |
| Ahmet Tezel
Low frequency sonophoresis: New mechanistic insights and novel applications |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | How to get macromolecules and genes into the skin |
| Chair: Phil Green |
| Peter Daddona
Macroflux transdermal Technology - A
Micromechanical Drug Delivery |
| George Cotsarelis
The hair follicle as a target for gene therapy |
| James Birchell
Intradermal non-viral gene delivery |
| Carl Alving
Transcutaneous vaccination in humans |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm | Business meeting
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| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Debate: Does microscopy (EM,LM,CSLM) provide a realistic picture of the epidermis |
| Moderator: Phil Wertz |
| pro: Gopi Menon |
| contra: Jonathan Hadgraft |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
