June 8

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
TBA, University of Michigan

Integrative biology of gene regulation: Re-defining the genome
Thomas Werner, Munich, Germany

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break in Poster Area

10:00 – 12:00

Session II: Modeling of complex dependencies in biological systems

Defining tissue specific regulatory networks: from worms to nephrons
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton

Modeling complex regulatory networks over time: Case study in diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity
Allan Attie, Univ. Wisconsin

Extracting predictors of clinical behavior from complex data sets: lesions learned in oncology and nephrology
Kerby Shedden, Statistics, Univ. of Michigan

Modelling molecular behavior on a subcellular level
Ravi Iyengar, Mount Sinai Medical School, NY

12:00 – 13:30

Networking Lunch & Poster Viewing

13.00 – 15.00

Session III: Integrating genetic variance with clinical phenotypes

The NHLBI Large Scale DNA sequencing project: Emerging opportunities for nephrology
Steve Rich, Univ. Virginia

Genetic risk for CKD: Linking CKDgene to the phenotype
Caroline Fox

SLEGENE and FIND: Diabetic Nephropathy and Lupus Nephritis: two case studies to link genetic variance with renal disease
Sudha Iyengar, Case Western, Cleveland
Carl Langfeld, Wake Forest (TBC)

Genetic screening in rare renal diseases in 2012
Olivier Devuyst, Univ. Zurich

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

15:00 – 18:00

Session IV: Integration of -omics data sets along the regulatory continuum

Genome wide analysis of epigenetics of diabetic nephropathy
Katalin Susztak, Univ. Penn

Epigenetic modulation of renal ischemic response
Masaomi Nangaku, Univ. Tokyo

Transcriptional network analysis of renal disease
Clemens Cohen, Univ. Zurich

Defining the drivers of renal fibrosis on a network level
John (Cijang) He, Mount Sinai Medical School, NY

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

Modelling regulatory elements in diabetic nephropathy
Finian Martin, Univ. College Dublin

Official Dinner (in Palmer Commons)