ASP is excited to announce monthly webinars on the first Thursday of every month, from 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time (10:00–11:00 am Pacific Time). These are free for everyone! They will also be recorded and put behind the ASP member wall a couple of days after the webinars.
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Upcoming Webinars
34th ASP Webinar
Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: John-Stephen Taylor, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Non-adjacent anti pyrimidine dimers: An in vitro curiosity or an in vivo reality?
Registration: https://burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0DQYT6IzTGevG2kuyswcUA
35th ASP Webinar
Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Sunil Kalia, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: TBD
36th ASP Webinar
Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Carlos Frederico Martins Menck, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Title: TBD
Past Webinars
33rd ASP Webinar
Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Jean Cadet, PhD
Professor, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Editor-in-Chief, Photochemistry and Photobiology
Title: Contribution of oxidation reactions to the photochemistry of cellular DNA
32nd ASP Webinar
Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 6:00–7:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Hironobu Ikehata, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Title: The wavelength dependence of UVR genotoxicity for mouse skin
31st ASP Webinar
Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 6:00–7:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Jin Ho Chung, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea
Title: UV regulates appetite and body weight
30th ASP Webinar
Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 6:00–7:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Cheng-Che Eric Lan, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan\
Title: Effects of Photon Density on UVB-induced Skin Carcinogenesis
29th ASP Webinar
Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Edward V. Maytin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Section Head of Molecular Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic
Title: The more the merrier: What else can we add to improve 5-ALA based photodynamic therapy of skin cancer?
28th ASP Webinar
Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Nabiha Yusuf, PhD, MSPH
Professor, Department of Dermatology and Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 modulates cutaneous immune responses and prevents skin cancer.
27th ASP Webinar
Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Robert C. Smart, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Title: C/EBP transcription factors and lncRNAs regulate critical responses to UVB radiation that impact skin tumorigenesis.
26th ASP Webinar
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Sherri A. McFarland, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Light-triggered Metallodrugs for Cancer Therapy: the Story of TLD1433
25th ASP Webinar
Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Michael G. Kemp, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Wright State University
Title: Where do all the dimers go? On the fate of UV photoproducts in damaged DNA
24th ASP Webinar
Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Lesley Rhodes, BSc, MD, FRCP, FRSB
Professor of Dermatology and Photobiology, University of Manchester
Title: Evaluating Acute Responses of Human Skin to Ultraviolet Radiation
23rd ASP Webinar
Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, PhD
Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Title: No Oxygen, No Problem! Development of Photosensitizers for the Treatment of Cancer Cells under Anoxic Conditions
22nd ASP Webinar
Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Theresa M. Busch, PhD
Research Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Dos, Don’ts and Don’t Knows of Dose Rate Effects in Photodynamic and Radiation Therapies
21st ASP Webinar
Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Ming-Lin Liu, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Neutrophil NETosis and the effects of UVB on lupus flare – The effect of sun on skin is not only skin deep
20th ASP Webinar
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Alexander Greer, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Title: Deconvolution of Photooxidation Processes using Mechanistic, Biomimetic, and Synthetic Studies
19th ASP Webinar
Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Mauricio S. Baptista, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, University of São Paulo
Title: Mechanisms of photosensitized oxidation and the consequences to human health
18th ASP Webinar
Thursday, December 1st, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Sheera Adar, PhD
Jacob and Lena Joels Memorial Foundation Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Title: Genomic characterisation of the interplay between UV induced DNA damages, chromatin and transcription
17th ASP Webinar
Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Shiyong Wu, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Ohio University
Title: Friend or Foe? The Roles of cNOS in UV-induced Carcinogenesis
16th ASP Webinar
Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Christin Burd, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University
Title: Following the footprints of UV mutagenesis in mouse models of melanoma
15th ASP Webinar
Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Jayaraman Sivaguru, PhD
Distinguished University Professor and the Antonia and Marshall Wilson Professor, Associate Director for Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University
Title: Uncovering New Excited State Reactivity Through Rationale Design of Molecules
14th ASP Webinar
Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Bevin P. Engelward, ScD
Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: CometChip: High throughput technology for quantifying multiple classes of DNA lesions
13th ASP Webinar
Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
Edward Wigglesworth Professor & Chairman, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: Melanocytes and pigmentation: targets and participants in photobiological signaling
12th ASP Webinar
Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Yu-Ying He, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Section of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
Title: RNA methylation in UV damage response and carcinogenesis
11th ASP Webinar
Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Nihal Ahmad, PhD
“Nelson M. Hagan Class of 1929” Endowed ProfessorVice Chair for ResearchDepartment of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Title: Prevention of photocarcinogenesis by dietary grape in SHK-1 hairless mice
10th ASP Webinar
Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Georg T. Wondrak, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and ToxicologyDirector of Graduate StudiesCollege of Pharmacy, University of Arizona
Title: Exploring the Skin Exposome in Photodamage and Carcinogenesis: A Redox Perspective
9th ASP Webinar
Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: John Wyrick, PhD
Professor, Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences
Title: Genome wide maps of rare and atypical UV photoproducts reveal distinct patterns of DNA damage formation in chromatin
8th ASP Webinar
Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 1:00-2:00 pm EST
Speaker: Jeffrey B. Travers, M.D., Ph.D., FAAD (Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University)
Brage Golding Distinguished Professor for Research, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Professor of Dermatology
Title: Platelet-activating Factor as a Critical Mediator for UVB responses
7th ASP Webinar
Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm EST
Speaker: Andrzej Slominski, MD, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Endowed Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Photo-neuro-endocrinology: central role of the skin
6th ASP Webinar
Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm EST
Speaker: Keith Elkon, MD
Professor and Head, Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Mart Mannik, MD-Lucile T. Henderson Endowed Professor in Rheumatology
Title: Solar power: the role of UV light in lupus
5th ASP Webinar
Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm EST
Speaker: Ben Van Houten, PhD (Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
Title: Shining light on how DNA repair proteins cooperate to process base damage: from single molecules to cells
4th ASP Webinar
Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 1:00–2:00 pm EST
Speaker: Dongping Zhong, PhD (Professor, The Ohio State University)
Title: Light Harvesting in Photoreceptor UVR8
3rd ASP Webinar
Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 1-2pm ET
Speaker: Cristina Flors, IMDEA Nanoscience in Madrid, Spain
Title: Nanoscale imaging of amyloid photodynamic damage
2nd ASP Webinar
Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 1:00–2:00 pm EST
Speaker: Russell N. Van Gelder, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Boyd K. Bucey Memorial Chair
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle, WA)
Title: Non-visual opsins in retinal and extraretinal photoreception
1st ASP Webinar
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Speaker: Andrés Thomas of the National University of La Plata, Argentina.
Title: Degradation of biomolecules photoinduced by pterins, a model to understand type I photosensitized oxidations