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PASPCRPASPCRPASPCRJune 2003 Vol. 11 Number 2 Newsletter Introduction... would like to see on the Web site, or you would like by Bill Oetting to include information of past PASPCR activities, please let me know and I will add them. The abstracts have been received, the scientific program has been set, and the pit is being dug to There has been a major update of the IFPCS bake the clams for the 11th Annual Meeting of the Mouse Coat Color Gene Table. See page 3 in this PASPCR. In this issue of the PASPCR Newsletter newsletter for more information. you will find the scientific program for the 2003 An- nual Meeting, to be held at Cape Cod, Massachu- The IFPCS web site can now be reached by using setts, on September 4th -7th. If you have not done so, the domain name ifpcs.org. The domain name you should register for both the meeting and your ipcc.info will take you to the IPCC web site, provid- hotel room. Hotel reservations must be made before ing you the most up to date information on the Inter- July 25th to receive the guaranteed conference rate. national Pigment Cell Conference which will be held The deadline for requesting a travel stipend from the on September 18 - 23, 2005 in the Natcher Conference PASPCR is August 1st. More information can be Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, found at the PASPCR web site (paspcr.org). This MD. Pictures of the Natcher Conference Center and will be a great meeting as well as being lots of fun. a preliminary scientific program have just been added. I hope to see you at Cape Cod. There is a possibility that the URLs for the PASPCR The PASPCR Newsletter is published quarterly and IFPCS web sites will be changed, due to a transfer and is intended to serve as a means of communica- of the web pages to a new web server. I do not know tion for the members of our Society. You are in- what the future URLs will be, but I will keep you in- vited to contribute articles, or other information you formed. If you have bookmarks that link directly to feel will be of interest to members of the PASPCR. specific pages (such as the mouse coat color gene page), If you attend a scientific meeting and have heard they will not work once the URLs have been altered. results which you think will be of interest to the mem- Remember, the PASPCR home page will always be bership of the PASPCR, please write a few para- available at paspcr.org and the IFPCS home page will graphs summarizing what was presented and share be available at ifpcs.org. it with us. Any information on upcoming meetings of interest will be added to the “Calendar of Events”. This is your newsletter, and we depend upon you to In this Issue . help us make sure it best serves the Society’s needs. Contributions and comments can be sent to me, pref- PASPCR Officers........................................2 erably by E-mail, to [email protected]. Calendar of Events.....................................2 Corporate Sponsers....................................3 The PASPCR Web Site is the major, up-to-date Welcome new PASPCR members..............3 source of current information for the PASPCR mem- Revised Mouse Coat Color table...............3 bership and for individuals who are interested in the Letter from the 19th IPCC Organizer..........4 PASPCR. If there is additional information that you 11th Annual Meeting of the ESPCR............5 American Thoracic Society.........................5 The PASPCR Web Site can be found at: Positions Wanted/Available........................6 Program - 11th Annual PASPCR Meeting....8 http://www.paspcr.org Bibliography..............................................15 PASPCR 2 June 2003 The PanAmerican Society for Calendar of Events: Pigment Cell Ressarch Sept. 3-7, 2003 XIth Annual Meeting of the Pan- American Society for Pigment Cell Research, C/O Dr. Raymond E. Boissy to be held in Cape Cod, MA. Department of Dermatology Contact: Dr. Jean Bolognia. University of Cincinnati E-mail: [email protected]. 231 Bethesda Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45267-0592 Sept. 17-20, 2003 XIth Annual Meeting of the Euro- pean Society for Pigment Cell Research, to be Officers: held in Gent, Belgium. Contact: Prof. JeanMarie Naeyaert. Zalfa Abdel-Malek, E-mail: [email protected]. President John Pawelek 2004 XIIth Meeting of the PanAmerican Society for President-elect Pigment Cell Research, to be held in Irvine, Cali- Raymond E. Boissy fornia. Secretary/Treasurer Contact: Frank Myskins. E-mail: [email protected] Council Members: 2004 XIIth Meeting of the European Society for Pig- Gisella Erf ment Cell Research, to be held in Paris, France. Bryan Fuller Contact: Dr. Lionel LaRue Ruth Halaban E-mail: [email protected] Thomas J. Hornyak Manickam Sugumaran 2005 XIVth International Pigment Cell Conference Brian Potterf (IPCC), to be held in Bethesda, MD, USA. Glynis Scott Contact: Dr. Vince. Hearing Miri Seiberg E-mail: [email protected] Richard Swank IFPCS Represenative: Note: Go to the PASPCR Web page for the most Richard A. King recent up-dates for meetings of interest. past-President PASPCR The PASPCR Newsletter is published quarterly by Manickam Sugumaran, Ph.D. the PanAmerican Society for Pigment Cell Re- Univ of Massachusetts at Boston search. All views are those of the authors. For Department of Biology further information or to submit articles, please con- 100 Marrissey Boulevard tact members of the Publications Committee. Boston, MA 02125 (617) 287-6600 Publications Committee: [email protected] William S. Oetting, Ph.D. Richard T. Swank, Ph.D. Editor Roswell Park Cancer Institute University of Minnesota Department of Molecular & Cell Biology Department of Medicine- Genetics Elm and Carlton Streets MMC 485 Buffalo, NY 14263 420 Delaware St. SE (716) 845-3429 (612) 624-1139 [email protected] [email protected] PASPCR June 2003 3 Corporate Sponsors Update of the Coat Color Table by Raymond E. Boissy by Bill Oetting The PASPCR would like to acknowledge and thank The IFPCS Coat Color Table is an attempt to bring our Corporate Sponsors; the list below reflects con- together information on genes that affect the type, and tributions over the past 2 years. Financial gifts from distribution of melanin pigment in the mouse coat. For these sponsors have allowed our Society to increase several years, the Coat Color Table has slowly in- benefits to the membership far out of proportion to creased in size as new mouse and human loci have the actual dues collected from members. Monies con- been cloned and published in the literature. With the tributed by these sponsors have been used over the help of Dot Bennett (who provided most of the new years to support various PASPCR functions including information), the IFPCS Coat Color Table has been our Young Investigator Award program, meeting travel expanded to include all known coat color genes. This stipends, annual meeting expenses and this Newslet- information will be formally published in: Bennett D.C. ter. and Lamoreux M.L. The Color Loci of Mice - A Ge- netic Century. Pigment Cell Res 16: 2003. GOLD Corporate Patrons Procter and Gamble Co. Links to this table can be found in the IFPCS web Shiseido Co, Ltd. site or the PASPCR web site within the PASPCR in- Combe, Inc. formation page. You can also directly link to the table using the URL: http://www.cbc.umn.edu/ifpcs/ SILVER Corporate Patrons micemut.htm (Note: this URL may change). Avon Products, Inc. Galderma Laboratories, Inc The table focuses on mouse coat color loci, but also Stiefel Laboratories includes the human homologues and associated hu- man genetic diseases when known. For many of the entries, there are links to The Jackson Laboratories’ Mouse Genome Informatics web page and to OMIM, Welcome New Members to provide expanded information on those loci. Cur- by Raymond E. Boissy rently there are 127 loci described in this table. The PASPCR would like to welcome these new mem- Most loci within the table are obvious coat color bers to the Society: genes. Some loci, such as bcl2 and brca1, are not obvious candidates for coat color loci, but mutations in these genes (sometimes as observed in a mouse Valerie Kempf - Duke University, Durham, NC knockout) do result in a dilution or alteration of coat Yan Liu - Duke University, Durham, NC color, and thus have been included in this table. Michael Olshavsky - Procter & Gamble, Cincin- nati, OH Many of these coat color mutations can be obtained from the Wellcome Trust Functional Genomics Mouse Isabel Santana - Unilever Research, Edgewater, Pigmentary Mutants Repository, a repository for mouse NJ pigmentary mutants under the direction of Dr. Lynn Shelia Rocha - Unilever Research, Edgewater, NJ Lamoreux in association with Dr. Jim Womack, Dis- Cloris Faraco - Universidade Federal Do Parana, tinguished Professor, and Dr. Richard Ermel, Director Curitiba Parana, Brazil of Laboratory Animal Research and Resources, at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M Univer- Hyung Sik Yoon - Soeul, Korea sity, College Station, Texas. Francis Noonan - George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC We hope that this table is of use to you. If you notice Patrick Farmer - University of California-Irvine, any errors, or loci that have been missed, please con- Irvine, CA tact either myself at [email protected], or Dot Bennett at [email protected]. PASPCR 4 June 2003 Dear Members of the ESPCR, JSPCR and about the Conference center (with photos), prelimi- PASPCR : nary travel information about how best to get here and how best to sneak out of the meeting to visit the Time has a way of moving on and although it has Smithsonian and Art Museums when you have time only been about 6 months since the highly successful (along with maps of how to do that), the members of International Pigment Cell Conference (IPCC) held our Scientific Committees, and even an overview of in the Netherlands last year, it won’t be that long be- the meeting program.