The 1st Charles Institute Seminar Series was launched in May 2019, and ran until June 2020, with 23 speakers presenting in total.
The series saw an array of guest speakers from Ireland, Uk & EU, present on a wide range of topics from clinical, to basic research perspectives. The presentations were both in-person in the Charles Seminar Room as well as being broadcast to healthcare professionals on Adobe Connect for most of the series, but due to the global pandemic, it switched to a wholly-online format from March 2020.
The series was chaired by Prof. Desmond Tobin, and supported by an unrestricted educational grant by RELIFE (part of A. Menarini Ireland), and synopses of the seminars featured in The Medical Independent (www.mindo.ie), as written by medical journalist Pat Kelly.
Below you can see list of speakers from the first Charles Institute Seminar Series, as well as link to flyers and synopses.
Speaker 1: Prof. Eugene Healy
29th May 2019: Keratinocyte cancer; a fair-weather fiend.
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis 'Keratinocyte cancer: A ‘fair-weather fiend’
Speaker 2: Dr Julie Thornton
5th June 2019: Can sunshine heal your wounds?
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Shedding light on UVB radiation and wound-healing'
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Speaker 3: Prof. Brian Kirby
5th June 2019: Targetted therapies for psoriasis - the end is nigh?
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Is the end nigh for severe psoriasis?'
Speaker 4: Prof. Edel O'Toole
28th June 2019: The Palmoplantar Keratodermas
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Beneath the skin of PPKs'
Speaker 5: Prof. Alan Irvine
17th July 2019: Atopic Dermatitis Comes of Age
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: ' The big picture on atopic dermatitis'
Speaker 6: Dr David Baeza
28th August 2019: Artificial lighting: Blue light and Chronodisruption
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Analysing light for life'
Speaker 7: Dr Majella Lane
4th September 2019: Skin health and the importance of topical formulation design
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Topical issues in dermatology'
Speaker 8: Prof. Ulla Knaus
11th September 2019: Reactive Oxygen Species – Lessons from Gut to Skin
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Gut feelings on reactive oxygen species'
Speaker 9: Dr Emer Duffy
2nd October 2019: Sniffing the barrier - Probing skin function through the volatile footprint
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Breaking barriers on the volatile footprint'
Speaker 10: Dr Ciarán Morrison
23rd October 2019: Centrosome proteins that link primary ciliogenesis and the DNA damage response
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'The missing links in cellular dysfunction'
Speaker 11: Prof. Anne-Marie Tobin
Wed 13th November 2019: From Bed to Bench
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'From the bench to the bedside'
Speaker 12: Dr Aoife Lally
27th November 2019: Skin cancer in immunosuppressed patients: the evolving picture
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Insights on a vulnerable patient population'
Speaker 13: Dr Dmitri Wall
Wed 11th December 2019: Alopecia current therapeutic options
Speaker 14: Dr Jacobo Elies
15th January 2020: Vasculopathy mechanisms in autoimmune skin diseases –Novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of Scleroderma
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Getting to know scleroderma'
Speaker 15: Prof. Sinéad Langan
22nd January 2020: Recent advances in the epidemiology of atopic eczema
Speaker 16: Dr Andrei Mardayev
5th February 2020: Naked mole rat, a long-lived and cancer-resistant mammal, as a new model to study human skin health
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'The naked truth about human health research'
Speaker 17: Dr Mark Mellet
19th February 2020: Regulation of Interleukin-36γ and its role in inflammatory skin disease
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Under the skin of psoriasis'
Speaker 18: Prof. Eva M.J Peters
4th March 2020: The psycho-neuro-immune connection and the skin: an integrative view
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Stress — the enemy of human health'
Speaker 19: Prof. Rachel Watson
29th April 2020: Ageing in the dermis: Lessons across ethnicities
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Clinical perspectives on skin ageing'
Speaker 20: Dr Veronica Kinsler
6th May 2020: Of spots and stripes - understanding mosaic disorders of the skin
Speaker 21: Prof. Mark Birch-Machin
13th May 2020: The relationships between nutritional status, antioxidants, bioenergy and interventions on human skin ageing
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: 'Protecting the skin we’re in'
Speaker 22: Prof. Mat Hardman
10th June 2020: Understanding Pathological Wound Healing; Opportunities for Translation.
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis: ' Big challenges, bigger opportunities in wound-healing'
Speaker 23: Claire Higgins
17th June 2020: Hacking the Skins Ability to Bear Load
Medical Independent Talk Synopsis 'Handling the pressure in wound-healing'