Mouse Models of skin cancer 2014 M ontpellier - France

Mouse Models of skin cancer
2014
Montpellier - France
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May, 25-28, 2014
An international meeting with a comparative
pathology session on melanoma models

Laboratoires Pierre Fabre
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www.pierre-fabre.com
Etre partout dans le monde tout en étant là
Présents dans plus de 130 pays • Partenaire de l’Oncopole de Toulouse
MÉDICAMENT SANTÉ FAMILIALE DERMO-COSMÉTIQUE
Nous consacrons à la recherche le quart de
notre chiffre d’affaires médical, avec une
préoccupation particulière pour la lutte
contre le cancer. En 1989, nous lancions
notre premier anti-cancéreux prescrit
depuis lors à plus d’un million de patients
dans 80 pays. Aujourd’hui, nous poursui-
vons notre effort dans nos centres de
recherche de Castres, de l’agglomération
toulousaine et de Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.
Nos équipes y mettent au point, jour
après jour, les traitements nouveaux qui
feront reculer la maladie.
Partenaires de l’Oncopole de Toulouse,
nous tenons à poursuivre notre déve-
loppement dans le Sud-Ouest où nous
comptons près de 4000 collaborateurs et
de nombreux accords avec la recherche
publique.

The conference will be held in the very dynamic city of Montpellier in May 2014. Montpellier
is located on the south coast of France on the mediterranean seaside. Conferences will take
place in part in Montpellier's university, one of the oldest european medical school.
The plenary sessions will highlight cutting edge research in the eld of skin
stem cell and tumor heterogeneity, the newest ndings based on mouse
models of melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and other skin cancers. A
signicant number of oral presentations will be selected among submitted
abstracts.
A dedicated pathology session will be open to researchers and patholo-
gists willing to share original observations obtained from faithful mouse
models of melanoma. Representative virtual tissue sections will be analyzed
by a panel of international experts who will compare relevant mouse models
to human melanomas.
Work performed over the last decades on mouse models of skin cancer have provided funda-
mental insights into various aspects of cancer development including mechanisms of action
of oncogenic pathways, determination of the cell of origin of various skin cancers, or the role
of the microenvironment.
The 2014 Mouse models of skin cancer conference will be the 2nd international meeting
sponsored by the french Canceropôle Grand Sud Ouest on mouse models of cancer. The
conference is designed to bring together international experts working in the eld of mela-
noma and non-melanoma skin cancers who use mouse models to better understand the
development of skin cancers and rationalize the development of novel therapeutic strategies.
This conference aims at fostering interactions between basic scientists, clinicians and
expert pathologists that will comment on common traits and dierences between mouse
models of skin cancer and the corresponding human diseases.

The Canceropole GSO team
wishes to express his most
sincere thanks to the
scientic committee
Florence Bernex - Biocampus, Montpellier
Cédric Blanpain - University of Brussels
Lionel Larue - Institut Curie, Orsay
Laurent Le Cam - Inserm, Montpellier
Jean-Christophe Marine - VIB Leuven

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Chairman: L. LE CAM, Inserm, Montpellier, France
 Growth by YAP/TAZ: Hippo pathway and beyond - S. PICCOLO, University of Padua, Italy
The French Society of Toxicologic Pathology (SFPT, Société Française de Pathologie
Toxicologique) is a scientific society whose goal is to improve human, animal and
environmental health by promoting research, education and knowledge
in the interdisciplinary field of toxicologic pathology.
The French Society of Toxicologic Pathology is recognized as a leading organization by
legislative and regulatory bodies. It provides continuous educational resources to its
membership and allied organizations,
and actively collaborates with sister societies to achieve similar objectives.
SFPT website: http://www.toxpathfrance.org/