| Name |
Institution |
Expertise |
| Marco
d'Ischia (*) |
University of Naples Federico II,
Naples, Italy |
Structural characterization of natural and synthetic melanin pigments
5,6-dihydroxyindole chemistry |
|
Alessandra Napolitano |
University of Naples Federico II,
Naples, Italy |
Melanin analysis
Pheomelanins structuere and biosynthesis
Cysteinyldopas |
|
Alessandro Pezzella |
University of Naples Federico II,
Naples, Italy |
Structural characterization of melanin pigments
Design, synthesis and polymerization of novel 5,6-dihydroxyindole derivatives
Melanin inspired organo-electronic functional materials |
|
Lionel Larue |
Institut Curie, Orsay, France |
(ESPCR President) |
| Lluís
Montoliu |
CNB-CSIC,
Madrid, Spain |
Melanin and L-DOPA mediated effects on vision (retina development) and hearing (hearing loss) in albinism using animal models |
|
Ghanem Ghanem |
LOCE
- Institut Jules Bordet, Univ. Libre
Bruxelles, Belgium |
Melanin interaction with drugs and ionizing radiations. Melanin measurement. Cellular models for melanin modulation. |
| Mauro
Picardo |
San
Gallicano Dermatological Institute, Rome,
Italy |
methods of evaluation in
cell culture of the efects
of precursor and
intermediate of
melanogenesis |
| Maeda
Kazuhisa |
Tokyo
University of Technology, Japan |
Research and development of the whitening ingredient for cosmetics
Study of its mechanism on melanogenesis |
|
Julian M Menter |
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta,
GA, USA |
Melanin Chemistry
Melanin Photobiology |
|
Shosuke Ito |
Department of Chemistry, Fujita Health
University School of Health Sciences,
Toyoake, Japan |
Chemistry of melanogenesis;
Chemical assays of eumelanin, pheomelanin, and related metabolites |
|
Kazumasa Wakamatsu |
Department of Chemistry, Fujita Health
University School of Health Sciences,
Toyoake, Japan |
Chemistry of melanogenesis;
Chemical assays of eumelanin, pheomelanin, and related metabolites |
| Clara
Santato |
Polytechnique Montréal, Canada |
Study the charge transport properties (ionic and electronic) of melanin films for
potential optoelectronic applications. |
| John Simon
|
Virginia University, USA |
melanin structure, photoreactivity, melanosome surface properties |
|
Tadeusz Sarna
|
Jagiellonian University,
Department of Biophysics,
Krakow, Poland |
Characterization of
biophysical properties of
natural melanin pigments;
age-related
changes of retinal pigment
epithelium melanin;
photoreactivity and
photoprotective
properties of eumelanins and
pheomelanins |
|
José Carlos García-Borrón
|
University of Murcia, Spain |
melanogenic enzymes,
melanocortin receptors |
|
Alain Taïeb |
Service de Dermatologie et
Dermatologie Pédiatrique
Centre de référence pour les
maladies rares de la peau,
CHU, Bordeaux, France |
human pigmentation diseases |
|
Stephane Commo |
L'Oréal, Clichy, France |
Hair follicle melanocytes,
hair whitening |
|
François Amblard |
Institut Curie, Paris, France |
optical spectroscopy of
melanin
diagnostic imaging
melanoma cell detection |
|
Paul Meredith |
University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia |
Optical and photophysical
properties of melanins
Physical structure
Bioelectronic properties and
use
Electrical properties
and underlying transport
physics |
|
Fabio Cicoira |
Ecole Polytechnique de
Montreal, Canada |
Fabrication and
characterization of melanine
organic electrochemical
transistors,
Ionic/electronic conduction
in melanine |
| Catharina M. Lerche |
Dept of Dermatology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Development of LC-MS method for PDCA, PTCA, TTCA, TDCA
|
|
Ismael Galván |
Departamento de Ecología
Evolutiva, Estación
Biológica de Doñana (EBD),
Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas
(CSIC), Sevilla, Spain |
Evolution of melanins and
melanic traits. Role of
antioxidants in
melanogenesis |
|
Lucia Panzella |
University of Naples
"Federico II", Italy |
Preparation, analysis and
properties of natural and
synthetic melanins |
|
Kenzo Koike |
KAO Corporation, Beauty
Research Center, Bunka,
Sumida, Tokyo, Japan |
hair dyeing , 5,6-dihydroxyindole
polymerization, enzymatic
hair bleaching, tyrosinase-based
technology |
|
Luigi Zecca |
National Research Council of
Italy |
Investigations on structure,
synthesis and role of
neuromelanins in brain aging
and neurodegeneration |
