11th International Conference on Applied Hair Science: Full Scientific Program Released This Week

We are very excited this week to be able to launch the full scientific program for the 2024 Hair Conference.  To see all the details go to the conference registration site, https://cvent.me/qLVbgN.  Select the ‘Agenda’ from the top menu bar and click on the various session titles to see all the details.  More details on the speakers can be found by clicking on their names.  Thanks very much, yet again, to the Scientific Committee and the speakers for creating another exciting and inspiring program!

The 11th International Conference on Applied Hair Science will take place on June 12th and June 13th, 2024. This year the conference will be a hybrid event, and you can join either live in Red Bank, NJ, or online. Places for the live event are limited to 120, so make sure you book soon to secure your places. Register now at https://cvent.me/qLVbgN . Group discounts, academic discounts and sponsorship packages are available. Please contact us https://www.triprinceton.org/contact-us for more information.

Selling Hair Care Products with Science

The award-winning journalist, Emily Dougherty, will present her thoughts on the scientific marketing of hair care products in a presentation entitled ‘Science Sells: How the evolution of hair care journalism led to 2024's ingredient-obsessed consumer and cosmetic-chemist celebrities, at the forthcoming 11th International Conference on Applied Hair Science. The conference will take place in Red Bank, New Jersey on June 12th and June 13th . This year the conference will be a hybrid event with live streaming for virtual attendees. To register for the conference, click here.

Journalist Emily Dougherty has covered the science behind beauty products for over 25 years for publications including The New York Times, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar and WWD's Beauty Inc. Her award-winning articles, published in over 40 countries, have been read by tens of millions of readers around the world. She graduated from Yale University and lives in NYC with her husband, her son, and a very small dog named Ed.

The abstract to Emily’s talk reads as follows:

The global haircare consumer has never been so obsessed with the science that goes into their favorite products. This presentation explores the evolution of science-based hair content within media, from traditional cosmetic reporting to consumer-facing interpretations of technical findings. We will look at who, what and where of current consumer media consumption across traditional media and social networks: who they trust, what kind of information they are looking for, and where they are going for this information — highlighting the role of clinicals and claims as well as the rise of the 'celebrity cosmetic chemist'. We will address the growing concerns about 'science-washing'; and the ethical considerations and challenges surrounding the integration of science into beauty journalism, including issues of transparency and misinformation.

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For more information about registering for the conference, click here. All the

presentations from the 9th International Conference in 2021 and 10th International

Conference in 2022 can be viewed on the TRI Library.

Announcing Another Keynote Speaker for the 11th International Conference on Applied Hair Science: Dr Jeff Plowman – ‘The Evolution of Keratin Proteomics’

We are delighted to be able to announce that the second keynote speaker for TRI’s 11th International Conference on Applied Hair Science is Dr Jeff Plowman (AgResearch, New Zealand).  Jeff will present a lecture entitled ‘The Evolution of Keratin Proteomics’.  The conference will take place in Red Bank, New Jersey on June 12th and June 13th.  This year the conference will be a hybrid event with live streaming for virtual attendees.  To register for the conference, click here.

Jeffrey Plowman is a protein chemist with over 44 years of experience in the area. Starting as a food analyst with the Chemistry Division of the Department of Science and Industrial Research, he joined to the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute where he studied the molecular basis for micelle stability using two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and molecular modelling. After this he took up a position with the Wool Research Organization of New Zealand, and eventually AgResearch, to develop and expand its proteomic capability in the area of keratin proteins. Through this work he has gained international recognition in the area of keratin protein structure and function.

The abstract to Jeff’s talk reads as follows:

Coined in the 1990s, proteomics is the study of the expressed protein component of the genome of any organism at a certain point in time. In the case of its application to keratin proteins in hair and wool fibers, proteomics has undergone considerable evolution starting with one-dimensional gel electrophoretic separation, through to non-equilibrium and then electrofocusing-based two-dimensional electrophoresis, to gel-free proteomic approaches. 

At the same time the identification of proteins by these techniques has also moved from the application of amino acid analysis to mass spectrometric approaches, the latter starting with peptide mass fingerprinting through to the present-day approach of sequencing of peptides after a second fragmentation of the peptide inside the mass spectrometer. All of this has been aided by the generation of a near complete set of sequence information for keratins and the keratin associated proteins, something that was not available 30 years ago. Keratin proteomics has also become more than the simple cataloguing exercise that existed then towards a wider range of applications that look at protein structure, protein abundance and protein modification. For instance it has been used to develop an understanding of how stretching and other processes affect the readily accessible disulfide bonding in the fiber and hence which ones are potentially involved in inter- and intra-molecular crosslinking. Another approach has seen the application of the label-free quantitative approach to determine differences of relative abundances of proteins between wild-type and crimp mutant animals as part of an overall investigation into the basis of fiber curvature.

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For more information about registering for the conference click here.  All the presentations from the 9th International Conference in 2021 and 10th International Conference in 2022 can be viewed on the TRI Library.