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2025 – forthcoming webinars
- 9 April – 13:30pm CET – Episode 74 – Mastering Research in Psoriatic Arthritis: my journey – Francesco Ciccia
- 28 May – 13:30pm CET – Episode 75 – Aging – Rei Watanabe and Elaine Fuchs
- 11 June – 13:30pm CET – Episode 76
- 9 July – 13:30pm CET – Episode 77
- 27 August – 13:30pm CET – Episode 78
- 24 September – 13:30pm CET – Episode 79
- 8 October – 13:30pm CET – Episode 80 – From primary to metastatic melanoma: requirements for metastatic spreading – Martin Röcken
- 12 November – 12:30pm CET – Episode 81 – sunlight’s harmful/beneficial effects – Richard Weller and David Whiteman
- 10 December – 13:30pm CET – Episode 82
2025 – PAST WEBINARS
- 12 Ma – Ep 73 – The vitiligo Puzzle: Which Side are you on? – Julien Seneschal and Mauro Picardo – Webcast
- 12 Feb– Ep 72 – Misregulated wound healing – a disease-promoting principle – Sabine Eming – Webcast coming soon
- 22 Jan– Ep 71 – WEBCAST
The lifespan and kinetics of human dendritic cell subsets and their precursors in health and inflammation (JEM Nov 2024) by Ruth Lubin
Epidermal maintenance of Langerhans cells relies on autophagy-regulated lipid metabolism (J Cell Biol Nov 2024) by Raquel Sal-Carro
2024 – past webinars
- 06 November – Ep 69 – Microneedle systems for enhanced management of skin conditions – Ryan Donnelly – Webcast
- 17 July – Ep 65 – 3D Bioimage analysis of volume electron microscope images of skin cells – Ross Laws –Webcast
- 20 March – Ep 61 – Non invasive imaging in skin research – Elvira Moscarella – Webcast
- 16 October – Ep 68 – Microbiome – Ellen van den Bogaard, John Common – Webcast
- 12 June – Ep 64 – Webcast – Is skin aging reversible, or is it a lost cause when loss of stemness and increased senescence emerge? – Peter de Keizer and Pidder Jansen-Duerr
- 14 February – Ep 60 – Webcast – The journey from PSO to PsA: can we prevent it? – Diamant Thaçi and Luis Puig
21 August – Webcast – Ep 66
Staphylococcus aureus-specific skin resident memory T cells protect against bacteria colonization but exacerbate atopic dermatitis-like flares in mice by Camille Braun
Metabolic coordination between skin epithelium and type 17 immunity sustains chronic skin inflammation by Piotrek Konieczny
22 May – Ep 63 – Webcast
MHC-I upregulation safeguards neoplastic T cells in the skin against NK cell-mediated eradication in mycosis fungoides (Nat Commun. Jan 24) – Yun-Tsan Chang
Loss of Dicer in Newborn Melanocytes Leads to Premature Hair Graying and Changes in Integrin Expression(J Invest Dermatol. Mar 24) – Juliette Bertrand
17 January – Ep 59 – Webcast
Landscape of mast cell populations across organs in mice and humans (J Exp Med Oct 2023) – Marie Tauber
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal aberrant lymphoid developmental programs driving granuloma formation (Immunity Feb 2023) Anna Redl
Acknowledgement – ESDR Kitchen 2024 Episodes are generously supported by


Ep 56-61 supported by UCB through a medical education grant
Ep 66 to 69 supported by Bristol Myers Squibb through an educational grant
2023 – past webinars
- 15 March – Ep 49 – Zebrafish model as a new tool for skin cancer research – Elizabetta Palazzo – Webcast
- 19 April – Ep 50 – Multimodal imaging of stress-related adaptations in metabolism and epilipidome of the epidermis – Florian Gruber WEBCAST
- 15 November– Ep 57 – The perfect recipe to initiate a start up – Nicolò Brembilla –Webcast
- 15 Feb Ep 48 – Psoriasis: early vs late intervention, a biological rationale – Luis Puig and Lars Iversen – Webcast
- 07 June Ep 52 – Inside out vs outside in: 20 years later – Alan Irvine and Emma Guttman – Webcast
- 04 October Ep 56 – AI in dermatology: gamechanger or existential threat? – Roxana Daneshjou and Veronica Rotemberg – Webcast
- 19 July Ep 53 – Computer modelling of inflammatory skin disease – Nick Reynolds – Webcast
- 13 Sept Ep 55 – Bench to bedside: Skin barrier diseases – Matthias Schmuth – Webcast
- 6 Dec Ep 58 – The Interleukin-36 pathway in inflammatory skin diseases : beyond pustular psoriasis – Hervé Bachelez – Webcast
23 August Ep 54 – Webcast
PPAR-γ regulates the effector function of human T helper 9 cells by promoting glycolysis (Nature Communications, April 2023) – by Nicole Bertschi
Differentiation of IL-26+ TH17 intermediates into IL-17A producers via epithelial crosstalk in psoriasis (Nature Communications, June 2023) – by Jeremy Di Domizio
24 May Ep 51 – WEBCAST
Fibroblast inflammatory priming determines regenerative versus fibrotic skin repair in reindeer (Cell, Dec 2022) by Elodie Labit
The Long Noncoding RNA LINC00958 Is Induced in Psoriasis Epidermis and Modulates Epidermal Proliferation (JID, January 2023) by Longlong Luo
18 Jan Ep 47 – WEBCAST
Tick feeding modulates the human skin immune landscape to facilitate tick-borne pathogen transmission (JCI Sept 2022) by Johanna Strobl
Spatial transcriptomics landscape of lesions from non-communicable inflammatory skin diseases (Nature Communications, Dec 2022) Alexander Schaebitz
Acknowledgement – ESDR Kitchen 2023 Episodes are generously supported by




Ep 47 to 52 supported by Bristol Myers Squibb through an educational grant
Ep 50 to 55 sponsored by Almirall
Ep 56-61 supported by UCB through a medical education grant
This Episode 58 is supported by an independent medical educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim
2022 – past webinars
- 04 May Ep 39 – The skin’s barrier: a cryo-EM based overview of its architecture and stepwise formation – Lars Norlen – Link to JID overview article referred to in episode –Webcast
- 29 June Ep 41 – Building a Network Meta-Analysis – Emilie Sbidian – Webcast
- 21 Sept Ep 43 – In vitro and ex vivo hair research models: Key assay for clinically relevant human hair research – Janin Edelkamp – Webcast
- 09 March Ep 36 – A clinician scientist journey in rare skin disorders – Edel O’Toole – Webcast
- 19 Oct Ep 44 – The epidermis – a battleground for inflammatory skin diseases – Erwin Tschachler – Webcast
- 02 Nov Ep 45 – Progress in the understanding and treatment of Netherton syndrome – Alain Hovnanian – Webcast
- 14 Dec Ep 46 – Chasing triggers of skin inflammation – Michel Gilliet – Webcast
12 Jan – Ep 33 – Webcast
Homeostatic IL-13 in healthy skin directs dendritic cell differentiation to promote TH2 and inhibit TH17 cell polarization (Nature Nov 2021) – Johannes U. Mayer
Transgenic Epidermal Cultures for Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa — 5-Year Outcomes (NEJM Dec 2021) – Maximilian Kueckelhaus
23 March– Ep 37 – webcast
Mitochondrial metabolism coordinates stage-specific repair processes in macrophages during wound healing (Cell Metab 2021 Dec) Sebastian Willenborg
The cGAS-STING pathway drives type I IFN immunopathology in COVID-19 (Nature 2022 Jan) Jeremy Di Domizio
24 August – Ep 42 – Webcast
Interleukin-17 governs hypoxic adaptation of injured epithelium (Science June 2022) Piotr Konieczny
Germline thymidylate synthase deficiency impacts nucleotide metabolism and causes dyskeratosis congenita (American Journal of Human Genetics August 2022) Hemanth Tummala
2021 – past webinars
- 27 Jan – Ep 13 Epigenomic profiling for unraveling gene regulation in skin – Andrew Lin Ji –Webcast
- 24 March – Ep 17 Proteomic Skin Atlas – Beatrice Dyring-Andersen – Webcast – read Q&A
- 19 May – Ep 19 Biological Models to Study Melanoma – Lionel Larue – Webcast
- 14 July – Ep 23 Mouse models of Atopic Dermatitis – Saeko Nakajima – Webcast
- 06 Oct – Ep 27 Spatially resolved transcriptomics – technology to applications in the skin – Joakim Lundeberg – Webcast
- 01 Dec – Ep 31 3D epidermal equivalents to study skin disease pathophysiology and disease – by Ellen van den Bogaard – Webcast
- 13 Jan Ep 12 Atopic Dermatitis & Cardiovascular Disease – Sinead Langan and Sara Brown – Watch now
- 10 Mar Ep 16 Can we prevent or cure androgenetic alopecia? – Ralf Paus and Andrew Messenger – Watch now
- 30 June Ep 22 Keratins: structural v regulatory proteins – Pierre Coulombe and Birgit Lane – Watch the video
- 08 Sept Ep 26 Is psoriasis an autoimmune disease? – Jörg Prinz and Johann Gudjonsson – Watch now
- 17 Nov Ep 30 Is sequencing skin tumours a waste of time? David Adams and Neil Rajan – Watch now
- 10 Feb Ep 14 Watch the video
- Developmental cell programs are co-opted in inflammatory skin disease presented by Gary Reynolds
- Essential Functions of Glycans in Human Epithelia Dissected by a CRISPR-Cas9-Engineered Human Organotypic Skin Model presented by Sally Dabelsteen
- 21 April Ep 18 – Watch the video
- Keratinocytes control skin immune homeostasis through de novo-synthesized glucocorticoids (Science Advances 2021) Presented by Truong San Phan
- Sustained androgen receptor signaling is a determinant of melanoma cell growth potential and tumorigenesis (Journal of Experimental Medicine) presented by Min Ma
- 16 June – Ep 21 – Watch the video
- Analysis of Matched Skin and Gut Microbiome of Patients with Vitiligo Reveals Deep Skin Dysbiosis: Link with Mitochondrial and Immune Changes (J Invest Dermatol. 2021 ) – presented by Meri Tulic
- Recruitment of inflammatory monocytes by senescent fibroblasts inhibits antigen-specific tissue immunity during human aging. (Nat Aging 1, 2021) – presented by Emma Chambers
- 25 August Ep 25 – Watch the video
- Niche stiffening compromises hair follicle stem cell potential during ageing by reducing bivalent promoter accessibility. Nature cell biology – presented by Janis Koester
- Single-cell analysis of human skin identifies CD14+ type 3 dendritic cells co-producing IL1B and IL23A in psoriasis. J Exp Med – presented by Satoshi Nakamizo
- 03 Nov Ep 29 Watch the video
- Thymic stromal lymphopoietin induces adipose loss through sebum hypersecretion presented by Ruth Choa
- EGFR-mediated epidermal stem cell motility drives skin regeneration through COL17A1 proteolysis presented by Daisuke Nanba
- 24 Feb Ep 15 Chasing after simple logic behind a complex disease, pemphigus – Masa Amagai – Watch the video
- 02 June Ep 20 My personal expedition searching ingredients of inflammatory skin disease – Lars French – Watch the video
- 28 July Ep 24 How to make a mosaic cake – Veronica Kinsler
- 20 Oct Ep 28 Psoriasis – from T cell exclusion to cytokine-based therapies – Martin Rocken – Watch the webcast
- 15 Dec Ep 32 Global goodness with scrumptious single cells – Muzlifah Haniffa – Watch the video
Acknowledgement – ESDR Kitchen 2021 Episodes are generously supported by





Ep 11 to 14 supported through a grant from Amgen
Ep 12 to 19 sponsored by Sanofi
Ep 18 to 25 sponsored by Almirall
Ep 20 to 27 supported by Bristol Myers Squibb
Ep 25 to 32 supported by Pfizer
2020
- Ep 1 – Mass Cytometry Analysis Tools for Decrypting the Complexity of Biological Systems – Tiago R. Matos – webcast – Q&A
- Ep 5 – Sc-RNAseq to study skin – Patrick M. Brunner – webcast – Q&A
- Ep 9 – CRISPR Genetic Screens to unravel novel genetic elements in epidermal homeostasis and disease – Auken Otten – Webcast
Ep 4 – Webcast
Hair follicle stem cell replication stress drives IFI16/STING-dependent inflammation in hidradenitis suppurativa – Presented by Cindy Orvain
Sensing of endogenous nucleic acids by ZBP1 induces necroptosis and skin inflammation – Presented by Wim Declercq
Ep 7 – Webcast
Mechanisms of stretch-mediated skin expansion at single-cell resolution – Presented by Mariaceleste Aragona
The commensal skin microbiota triggers type I IFN–dependent innate repair responses in injured skin – Presented by Jérémy Di Domizio
Ep 11 – Webcast
IgE effector mechanisms, in concert with mast cells, contribute to acquired host defense against Staphylococcus aureus – Presented by Philipp Starkl
Myeloperoxidase Modulates Inflammation in Generalized Pustular Psoriasis and Additional Rare Pustular Skin Diseases – Presented by Stefan Haskamp
Loss-of-Function Myeloperoxidase Mutations Are Associated with Increased Neutrophil Counts and Pustular Skin Disease – Presented by Francesca Capon
- Ep 3 – Psoriasis:A Personal Peripatetic Path of Discovery – Chris Griffiths – Q&A – webcast
- Ep 6 – A personal journey through the biology and the pathology of skin pigmentation – Alain Taïeb & Muriel Cario-André – webcast
- Ep 10 – Beyond sticking together: My quest to understand why there are so many epidermal cadherins – Kathleen Green – Q&A – Webcast
Acknowledgement

Episodes 7 to 11 supported through a grant from Amgen