Nesrine I. Affara1, Brandon L. Schanbacher2, Michael J. Mihm2, Angela C. Cook2, Carol S. Trempus3, John A. Bauer2, and Fredika M. Robertson1, 4
1Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio; 2The Center for Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Columbus Children's Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio; 3Cancer Biology Group, National Center for Toxicogenomics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and 4The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
     Localization of Phospho-Akt-1 in Specific Compartments of the Skin During Multi-Stage Carcinogenesis

Angel, Joe M.; Abel, Erika L.; Riggs, Penny K.; Elizondo, Laura; Caballero, Manuel; DiGiovanni, John. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park-Research Division, Smithville, Texas
     Identification of genetic loci that modify susceptibility to skin tumor promotion

Dong-Soon Bae, Jessica Lee, Vijayachandra Kinnimulki, and Adam Glick
Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, CCR, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland
     Expression profiling reveals gene specific effect of oncogenic Ras on the response of primary mouse keratinocytes to TGFb1

Cara L. Benjamin, Vladislava O. Melnikova, Coimbatore Sreevidya, and Honnavara N. Ananthaswamy
Department of Immunology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
     Oncogenic potential of mutant BRAFV599E in cellular transformation: Relevance to human melanoma

David Trono, Rebecca Beard, Rodney S. Nairn, and Andrew P. Butler
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park-Research Division, Smithville, Texas
     CDKN2X expression in Xiphophorus: a genetic model for melanoma susceptibility

Christophe Cataisson, Andrea Pearson, Sergei Nedospasov, Henry Hennings and Stuart Yuspa
Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, NCI
     Targeting overexpression of PKCa to the epidermis of transgenic mice enhances tumor formation independent of the inflammatory response

Tong Chen, Ronald G. Nines, Sarah M. Peschke and Gary D. Stoner
Cancer Chemoprevention and Support Program, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
     Chemopreventive effects of freeze-dried black raspberries in esophageal tumorigenesis through suppression of inducible nitric oxide synthase

Weihong Yin1, Jennifer Roberts1, Xiulan Yang3, Keith Chan2, John DiGiovanni2, Scott M. Lippman3, John L. Clifford1
1Dept. of Biochemistry, Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport and Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, 2Dept. of Carcinogenesis, Univ. of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, 3Dept. of Clinical Cancer Prevention, Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
     Active STAT3 is required for survival of human squamous cell carcinoma
cells in serum-free conditions.

Nadine Darwiche1, Andrew Ryscavage, Lisa Nolan, Stuart Yuspa, Henry Hennings and Adam Glick
1American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon, and Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, CCR, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland
     Expression profiling links high risk papillomas to squamous cell carcinomas

Mark S. Eller and Barbara A. Gilchrest, Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
A role for WRN in generating telomere-based DNA damage responses

Dan Gareau
Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
     Reflectance mode imaging melanoma

Taghrid B. El-Abaseri, Jill Fuhrman, Carol Trempus, Igor Shendrik, Raymond W. Tennant, and Laura A. Hansen
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
     Chemoprevention of ultraviolet light-induced skin tumorigenesis by inhibition of the epidermal growth factor receptor

Mei-Yu Hsu, Sunita Penmatcha, and Sherry Rovinsky
Department of Pathology and Dermatology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
     Noggin upregulation protects aggressive human cutaneous melanoma cells from BMP7-induced autocrine growth inhibition

Yinling Hu
Science Park Research Division, UTMD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas
     IKKa functions as a potential suppressor in skin carcinogenesis

Eve Kandyba, Cian Muldoon1, Michael Edward, David A Greenhalgh and Malcolm B Hodgins. Section of Squamous Cell Biology and Dermatology, 1Dept of Pathology, University of Glasgow, UK
     Gap junctional intercellular communication and Cx43 expression in human melanocytes and melanocytic lesions

Lao HC, Akunda JK, Yuspa SH1, Langenbach R.
Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
1Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
     Deficiency of cyclooxygenases in oncogenic Ras-transformed primary keratinocytes leads to reduced tumor formation

Allen G. Li1, Shi-Long Lu1, Ming-Xiang Zhang1,3, Chuxia Deng2, Xiao-Jing Wang1, 4
1Departments of Otolaryngology, Dermatology, and Cell & Developmental Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; 2Mammalian Genetics Section, GDDB, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
     Smad3 knockout mice exhibit a resistance to skin chemical carcinogenesis

Luowei Li, Fatima Soliman, Yousun Chong, Nancy L. Hu, Stuart H. Yuspa
Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
     Expression profiling links high risk papillomas to squamous cell carcinomas

Yuangang Liu and Molly Kulesz-Martin
Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University
     Apoptotic resistance conferred by germ cell-specific SPAF in malignant melanoma and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma.

Shi-Long Lu,1 Douglas Reh,1 Allen G. Li,1 Jennifer Woods,1 Christopher L. Corless,2 Molly Kulesz-Martin,3,4 and Xiao-Jing Wang1,3,4
Departments of 1Otolaryngology, 2Pathology, 3Dermatology, 4Cell and Developmental Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
     Overexpression of TGFb1 in head and neck epithelia results in inflammation, angiogenesis, and epithelial hyperproliferation

Mary Mac Partlin1, Shelya Zeng1, Hunjoo Lee1, Yongtao Yu1, Daniel Stauffer2, Yetao Jin1, Yanping Li1, Mathew Thayer2 and Hua Lu1*
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology1, Division of Molecular Medicine of Department of Medicine2, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
     p300 regulates p63 transcriptional activity

Mariateresa Mancuso, Simonetta Pazzaglia, Mirella Tanori, Simona Leonardi, Simonetta Rebessi, Vincenzo Di Majo, Vincenzo Covelli and Anna Saran
ENEA Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy
     Susceptibility to BCC induction by radiation in Ptch1neo6-7/+ mice is hair growth cycle- dependent

Sonja Muffler, Hans-Jürgen Stark and Petra Boukamp
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Div. Genetics of Skin Carcinogenesis, Heidelberg, Germany
     Improvement of organtotypic cultures as a model for human interfollicular epidermal stem cell niches

Kimberly M. Newkirk, Laurie G. Hudson, Jaipriya Parkhani, Donna F. Kusewitt
Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
     Ultraviolet radiation exposure induces Snail family transcription factors.

Maria Belen Cadenas and Marcelo L. Rodriguez-Puebla
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
     Role of cyclin D3 in normal and neoplastic proliferation of mouse keratinocytes

Joyce E. Rundhaug1, Kathleen A. Hawkins1, Amy Pavone1, Sally Gaddis1, Hyunsuk Kil1, Russell D. Klein1, Thomas R. Berton1, Elisabeth McCauley1, David G. Johnson1, Ronald A. Lubet2, Susan M. Fischer1* and C. Marcelo Aldaz1*. 1Department of Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park-Research Division, Smithville, TX 78957; 2National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
     SAGE profiling of UV-induced mouse skin squamous cell carcinomas, comparison with acute UV irradiation effects.

Akira Nakata, Takashi Kameda, Hirokazu Nagai, Kenji Ikegami, Yuqing Duan, Kunihiko Terada and Toshihiro Sugiyama
Department of Biochemistry, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
     Establishment and characterization of a mouse ameloblast-lineage cell line

Tober, K.L., Thomas, J.M., Hatton, J.L., Hill, K.J., Oberyszyn, T.M.
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
     The role of the EP prostanoid receptor, EP1 in acute UVB-mediated inflammation and tumor development

Xiao Wang1, Ya Juan Yao1, Angel Ramirez2, Jose L Jorcano2, Irina Budunova1
1-Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; 2Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
     Effect of tumor suppressor gene Cx26 on epidermis development and function

Scott M. Welford, Barbara Bedogni, Marianne Broome-Powell, and Amato J. Giaccia
Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
     The macrophage migration inhibitory factor is a HIF1 and Ras responsive gene in melanoma

Sun Yang, Frank L. Meyskens Jr.
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California
     Alterations in activating protein-1 (AP-1) composition correlated with phenotypic differentiation changes of human melanoma induced by resveratrol

Denggao Yao, Jean A. Quinn and David A. Greenhalgh
Section of Squamous Biology and Dermatology, Division of Cancer Sciences and Molecular Pathology, Glasgow University, Scotland
     Inducible cre-mediated N-ras activation and PTEN inactivation in transgenic mouse melanocytes requires keratinocyte hyperplasia to elicit a melanocyte pathology