Seminar Series

O’Brien Kidney Center Seminar Series
2012-2013

Lectures held from 5 – 6 p.m. at the Faculty Club, unless noted otherwise.

Date

Lecturer

Institution

August 29, 2012 Alessia Fornoni, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
"Podocyte Lipids in FSGS and Diabetic Nephropathy"
Univ. of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
September 27, 2012 Fiona Cowles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
Visiting Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
"Regulation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) by COMMD family proteins"
University of Otago School of Medical Science
UT Southwestern Medical Center
October 18, 2012 Ora Weisz, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte Division, and of Cell Biology and Physiology
Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine
"Apical Traffic in Renal Epithelial Cells"
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
October 31, 2012
10 a.m.
K5.600 
Edith Hummler, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
"ENaC in salt and potassium homeostasis- knockouts, transgenics and TALEN"
University of Lausanne
November 15, 2012 Josh Lipschutz, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
TBD
University of Pennsylvania
January 17, 2013 Youhua Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
"Epithelial-mesenchymal communication: new paradigm in fibroblast activation and renal fibrosis"
University of Pittsburgh
February 21, 2013 Bertram L. Kasiske, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Head of Transplant Nephrology
"Effects of Reduced Kidney Function on Living Kidney Donors"
University of Minnesota
March 19, 2013 Isidro Salusky, M.D.
Chief, Pediatric Nephrology
Co-Chair, Participant and Clinical Interaction and Resources Program
Professor, Pediatrics
"Effects of Current CKD-MBD Therapies on Bone and FGF23"
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
April 18, 2013 Chi-Yuan Hsu, M.D.
Professor in Residence, Nephrology
Department of Medicine
"The Links Among Acute, Chronic and End-stage Renal Disease"
University of California
San Francisco Medical Center
Symposium May 2, 2013
Tuesday
May 14, 2013
Gerhard Giebisch, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Renal and Extrarenal Aspects of Potassium Homeostasis 
Yale University School of Medicine