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Labex SIGNALIFE Seminar series
Mechanisms regulating stemness in skin Cancer
Cédric BLANPAIN
Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE
Friday April 18th, 2014, 11:30 am
Théâtre du Grand Château, Campus Valrose
UFR Sciences, 28 Avenue Valrose, 06100 Nice
Cédric Blanpain, MD/PhD, is full professor and WELBIO investigator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
His lab is studying the role of stem cells (SCs) during development, homeostasis and cancer. Since he started in own
lab, he demonstrated the key role of Mesp1 during the specification of cardiovascular progenitors, identified the
cellular origin of Merkel cells and the mechanisms by which hair follicle SCs resist to DNA damage induced cell
death. Using lineage-tracing approaches, he uncovered new SC populations in the mammary epithelium and the
prostate, as well as the cells at the origin of the two most frequent skin cancers. He also recently developed new
methods to investigate cancer stem cells in skin tumors and identified a new role of VEFG in regulating skin cancer
SCs.
Invited by Pierre Léopold, Institut de Biologie Valrose (iBV)
http://signalife.unice.fr
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