September 13

 

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 5: Zebrafish as a model of (renal) disease
	Chair: Weining Lu, USA
08:30 – 09:15	Keynote Lecture
	“Small molecule screening in zebrafish models of disease”
	Len Zon, USA
09:15 - 09:45	Genetic disease models in zebrafish for screening of therapeutic compounds
	Randall T. Peterson, USA
09:45 – 10:15	Zebrafish models of genetic nephrotic syndrome
	Iain Drummond, USA
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
10:45 – 12:15	SESSION 6: Genetics of congenital anomalies of the kidney
	Chair: Paola Romagnani, Italy
10:45 - 11:15	Autosomal dominant causes of congenital anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract (CAKUT)
	Ali Gharavi, USA
11:15 – 11:45	miRNA139a
	Dontscho Kerjaschki, Austria
11:45 – 12:15	Uromodulin and kidney disease: A question of dosage
	Olivier Devuyst, Switzerland
12:15 – 14:15	Networking Lunch & Poster Viewing
14:15 – 16:15	SESSION 7: Insights into podocyte biology and diseases
	Chair: Ali Gharavi, USA
14:15 – 14:45	Monogenic forms of nephrotic syndromes: New concepts
	Corinne Antignac, France
14:45 – 15:15	Insights into mechanisms from monogenic forms of nephrotic syndrome
	Martin Pollak, USA
15:15 - 15:45	AKT2 is essential to maintain podocyte viability and function during chronic kidney disease
	Fabiola Terzi, France
15:45 – 16:15	Abatacept in B7-1-positive proteinuric kidney disease
	Peter Mundel, USA

 

 

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