Scaling Hair Follicle Regeneration in Space and Time – a Recipe for a Full Head of Hair Maksim Plikus, PhD
Professor, Dep. of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine (UCI) Why Attend this Seminar? Hair follicle is a highly regenerative skin micro-organ, commonly used as the model for studying mechanisms of stem cell regulation. The end product of hair follicle regeneration is a single hair strand, yet hundreds of thousands of follicles need to grow their hair strands together in order to produce functional, high-density hair coverage, both in animals and in humans on the scalp. Understanding how thousands of neighboring follicles coordinate their individual regenerative activities toward a common goal of “thick hair” holds answers to how organ-wide regenerative activities are managed in general. In this seminar, new approaches that skin “uses” to efficiently scale and self-organize hair growth will be presented. Translational potential of this knowledge toward new hair loss therapies will be also discussed. Meeting ID: 930 4620 8772
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