The 2012 Montagna Symposium, Keeping It All Together: Adhesion, the Cytoskeleton and Signaling in Morphogenesis and Tissue Function, will explore the role played by cell adhesion and signaling in the structure and function of skin and the pathogenesis of numerous diseases, including cancer, vascular disease, autoimmune and inherited disorders of the skin, and wound healing. Topics to be addressed include intercellular junctions unique to skin; cell-cell adhesion and cell-matrix adhesion in signaling and disease; gap junctions and tight junctions in epidermis; cell motility; polarity; cadherins; integrins - diseases and interactions; and intermediate filaments.

Program Chairs

• Kathleen J. Green
  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Masayuki Amagai
  Department of Dermatology, Keio University School of Medicine
  

Session Chairs

• Andrew Kowalczyk
  Emory University
• John McGrath
  St. John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London
  
• Carien Niessen
  Department of Dermatology, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
  
  

Returning to the Oregon Coast
Salishan Resort
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
2.5 hours from Portland, Oregon

The Montagna Symposium on the Biology of Skin is supported by Grant Number 2 R13 AR009431 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS).