September 12

 

This schedule is provisional, and will be filled in as speakers and themes are confirmed. Be sure to return to this page regularly to stay up to date with the program.

 

08:30 – 10:15	SESSION 2: Genome-Wide Association Studies and Epigenetics
	Chair: Jeffrey Kopp, USA
08:30 – 09:15	Keynote Lecture
	“The future of GWAS for the study of pathogenesis”
	Joel Hirschhorn, USA
09:15 - 09:45	GWAS in renal disease
	Caroline Fox, USA
09:45 - 10:15	Meta-analysis identifies multiple loci associated with kidney function-related traits in East Asian populations
	Yukinori Okada, Japan
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
10:45 – 12:45	SESSION 3: Renal Cystic Ciliopathies: From Genes and Signaling Pathways to Treatment
	Chairs: Gregory Germino, USA and Dorien Peters, The Netherlands
10:45 - 11:15	Using broad genomic tools to identify mutations of MUC1 as causing MCKD1
	Mark Daly, USA
11:15 - 11:45	Polycystin-dependent inhibition and cilia-dependent activation of renal cyst growth
	Stefan Somlo, USA
11:45 – 12:15	Protein complexes and ‘signalomes’ in renal ciliopathies
	Peter Jackson, USA
12:15 – 12:45	Signaling pathways and therapeutic molecules in cystic kidney disease
	Vicente Torres, USA
12:45 - 14:45	Networking Lunch & Poster Viewing
14:45– 15:45	SESSION 4: Animal Models of Genetic Renal Disease
	Chair: Helen McNeill, Canada
14:45 - 15:15	Nephrotic Syndrome and soluble Flt1
	Susan Quaggin, USA
15:15 - 15:45	Lessons from mouse models of heart disease
	Cecilia W. Lo, USA
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
16:15 – 18:10	Oral presentations selected from abstracts
16:15 - 16:30	The ciliopathy protein ANKS6 is the critical activator of NEK8 kinase, regulating situs determination, cardiopulmonary development and renal morphogenesis
	Peter Czarnecki, USA
16:35 - 16:50	Mutations in DCDC2 cause nephronophthisis with hepathic fibrosis
	Markus Schueler, USA
16:55 - 17:10	A high throughput mass spectometry based test for medullary cystic kidney disease type 1
	Daniel Gale, United Kingdom
17:15 - 17:30	Robo2 forms a protein complex with Ilk and loss of Robo2 alleviates the glomerular phenotype of Ilk podocyte-specific knockout mice
	Hila Milo Rasouly, USA
17:35 - 17:50	Podocyte MDM2 prevents P53 overactivation-related cell death (podoptosis), proteinuria, and glomerulosclerosis
	Hans-Joachim Anders, Germany
17:55 - 18:15	Genetic analysis in aging inbred strains and diversity outbred mice identifies novel and networks for age-related kidney disfunction
	Ron Korstanje, USA

 

 

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