The 2018 Alan Cooper Epiderm Lecture was recently hosted by The University of Queensland Dermatology Research Centre at the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane on Friday 27 July.

This year's event featured a keynote presentation by Professor Alan Cooper, ARC Laureate Fellow, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, University of Adelaide, on “Evolutionary changes in the human microbiome and immune system”.