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The Charles Institute Seminar Series 2009-2010

 

The Charles Institute Seminar series will bring together leading international experts to speak on the lastest advances in dermatology. The Charles Institute Seminar Series is held in conjunction with the Conway Lecture & Seminar Series (CLASS).

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Seminar 1 - ‘Basement membrane type VII collagen and skin cancer'

Prof Edel O’Toole  
Professor of Molecular Dermatology & Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at the Centre for Cutaneous Research, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
UCD Conway Institute Lecture Theatre
Friday 23 October – 12.00

View Seminar 1 slides here (PPT) 73MB
Listen to Seminar 1 here (MP3) 32MB

Seminar 2 - Severe skin diseases: Integrating new concepts of basic research into a clinical perspective

Prof Vincent Piguet
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Geneva and Clinical Consultant, University Hospital of Geneva
UCD Conway Institute Lecture Theatre
Friday 06 November – 13.00

View Seminar 2 slides here (PDF) 7MB
Listen to Seminar 2 here (MP3) 45MB

Seminar 3 - Dermatological Danger

Dr Graham Ogg
MRC Human Immunology Unit, Programme Leader Reader in Cutaneous Immunology, Consultant Dermatologist, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Oxford
Lecture Theatre COO4 - UCD Health Sciences Centre
Friday 27 November - 13.00
View Seminar 3 slides here (PPT) 6MB
Listen to Seminar 3 here (MP3) 11MB

Seminar 4 - New treatments for inherited skin diseases

Prof John McGrath
Professor of Molecular Dermatology at King’s College London, Head of the Genetic Skin Disease Unit
Lecture Theatre COO4 - UCD Health Sciences Centre
Friday 15 January, 2010– 13.00
View and listen to Seminar 4 slides with audio here (AVI Video) 100MB

The Charles Institute Open Day Seminar - Pathogenesis and targeted treatment of psoriasis

Prof James G. Krueger, MD, PhD
Head of the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology at the Rockefeller University
Lecture Theatre COO4 - UCD Health Sciences Centre
Monday 08 February, 2010– 13.00
View and listen to Open Day Seminar slides with audio here (AVI Video) 62MB

The Charles Institute Open Day Public Lecture - UV Radiation & the Skin: The Science & Risks

Dr David. E Fisher
Chief of the Department of Dermatology,  Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Monday, 08 February, 2010 -18.30
View and listen to Open Day Public Lecture slides with audio here (WMV Video) 70MB

Seminar 5 - From antibody therapy to autoantigen identification: The role of T cells in psoriasis

Prof Joerg C. Prinz
Department of Dermatology, University of Munich, Germany
UCD Conway Institute Lecture Theatre
Friday 19 February, 2010– 12.00

Seminar 6 - Psoriasis is a systemic inflammatory disease: pathogenetic links and clinical consequences

Prof Wolf-Henning Boehncke
Department of Dermatology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Lecture Theatre B004 - UCD Health Sciences Centre
Thursday 22 April, 2010 - 13.00

Details of further seminars will be posted in the coming weeks