June 8

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09:00 – 10:30

Session I: Integrative Biology: Harnessing genome wide data sets for a holistic understanding of renal disease processes

Integrative Biology: Lessons to be Learned from Prostate Cancer
Scott Tomlins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA

Integrative Biology of Gene Regulation: Re-defining the Genome
Thomas Werner, Genomatix Software GmBH, Munich, Germany

Defining Tissue Specific Regulatory Networks: From Worms to Nephrons
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break in Poster Area

11:00 – 12:00

Session II: Modeling of Complex Dependencies in Biological Systems

Modeling complex regulatory networks over time: Case study in diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity
Alan Attie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Additive and Non-additive Genomic Summaries for Outcome Prediction in Chronic Kidney Disease
Kerby Shedden, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

12:00 – 13:30

Networking Lunch & Poster Viewing

13.30 – 15.00

Session III: Integrating Genetic Variants with Clinical Phenotypes

The NHLBI Large Scale DNA sequencing project: Emerging opportunities for nephrology
Steve Rich, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Linking Genetic Variance with Renal Disease
Sudha Iyengar, Case Western, Cleveland
Carl Langfeld, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem

Capturing the podocyte: Capturing the podocyte: high throughput platform from candidate exome sequencing
Andrey Shaw, Washington U, St. Louis

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break in Poster Area

15:30 – 18:00

Session IV: Integration of -Omics Data Sets Along the Regulatory Continuum

Genone Wide Analysis of Epigenetics of Human Diabetic Nephropathy
Katalin Susztak, Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Epigenetic modulation of renal ischemic response
Masaomi Nangaku, University of Tokyo

Transcriptional network analysis of renal disease
Clemens Cohen, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Systems Approach Identifies HIPK2 as a Critical Regulator of Kidney Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis
John (Cijang) He, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York

CKD network definition in Syskid
Rainer Oberbauer/Bernd Mayer, Vienna, Austria  

Signaling Modulators that Support Progession in Diabetic Nephropathy
Finian Martin, Dublin University College

Official Dinner (in Palmer Commons)