O’Brien Kidney Center Lecture Series
All lectures are held from Noon to 1 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Presentations will be virtual and will utilize Zoom.
November 1, 2022
Lecturer: Edward R. Smith, Ph.D., FASN
Title: Professor of Nephrology
The Royal Melbourne Hospital Australia
Lecture: "Calciprotein particles: Lot’s Wife’s problem solved”
June 9, 2022
Lecturer: Ravi Thadhani, M.D., MPH
Titles: Chief Academic Officer, Mass General Brigham
Professor of Medicine and Academic Dean of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Lecture: "Artificial Intelligence in Nephrology: Real or Hype?”
March 28, 2022
Lecturer: Joost Hoenderop, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Molecular Renal Physiology, Department of Physiology
Institution: Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (RIMLS), Radboud University Medical Center
Lecture: "Renal magnesium handling in health and disease”
March 14, 2022
Lecturer: Joo-Seop Park, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Institution: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Lecture: "Gene Regulatory Networks in Kidney Development”
March 7, 2022
Lecturer: Richard J. Johnson, M.D.
Title: Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
Institution: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Lecture: "Fructose activates an Evolutionary Pathway that may Contribute to Chronic Kidney Disease and other Noncommunicable Diseases”
February 7, 2022
Lecturer: Jennifer R. Charlton, M.D., M.Sc.
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology
Institution: University of Virginia Health Systems
Lecture: "Nephron number: from development to diagnostics”
January 10, 2022
Lecturer: Ryuichi Nishinakumara, M.D., Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Department of Kidney Development
Institution: Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University
Lecture: "Building the kidney from pluripotent stem cells”
November 15, 2021
Lecturer: Kathleen D. Liu, M.D., Ph.D., MAS
Title: Professor in Research, Step 3
Institution: The University of California San Francisco
Lecture: "AKI Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned from ARDS and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
October 18, 2021
Lecturer: Mark de Caestecker M.B, B.S., Ph.D., F.A.S.N.
Title: Professor of Medicine
Institution: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology
Lecture: "How reversible is ureteric obstruction?”
July 26, 2021
Lecturer: Isaac J. Pence, Ph.D.
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institution: Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
Lecture: "Translational Biophotonics: Addressing Clinical Problems with Light-Tissue Interaction”
April 5, 2021
Lecturer: Vivek Bhalla, M.D., FASN, FAHA
Title: Associate Professor Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine
Lecture: "Contribution of vascular endothelial cell-specific molecule-1 (Esm-1) to Diabetic Kidney Disease”
March 29, 2021
Lecturer: Ronak Lakhia, M.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Institution: UT Southwestern
Lecture: "Role of Cholesterol in ADPKD”
February 22, 2021
Lecturer: Peter Van Buren, M.D, MSCS
Title: Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Institution: UT Southwestern
Lecture: "Using Intradialytic Blood Pressure Slopes to Improve Fluid Management in Hemodialysis Patients”
January 11, 2021
Lecturer: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Molecular Biology
Institution: UT Southwestern
Lecture: "Building renal blood vessels, in the embryo and the dish”
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Seminar Director
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Previous Lectures
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/6/20 | Igor Stagljar, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada |
Advancing Precision Medicine with Targeted Interaction Proteomics: Tales of Mutant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor |
| 2/10/20 | Ralph Mason, Ph.D. UT Southwestern |
Imaging opportunities for kidney disease |
| 3/9/20 | Aylin Rodan, M.D., Ph.D. University of Utah School of Medicine |
Potassium in the Balance: Ion Regulation of WNK Kinases |
| 10/12/20 | Orlando Martí Gutiérrez, M.D., M.MSc. The University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Fostering translational research in kidney disease: an FGF23 story |
| 10/19/20 | Terry Watnick, M.D. The University of Maryland |
Aneurysms in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease |
| 10/26/20 | Samir M. Parikh, M.D. Harvard University |
Kidney stress resistance: moving metabolism to the patient |
| 11/23/20 | Sarah Huen, M.D., Ph.D. UT Southwestern |
Metabolism as Disease Tolerance: From a Multi-organ to Intra-renal Perspective |
| 12/7/20 | Leslie Gewin, M.D. Vanderbilt University |
AKI to CKD: Is beta-catenin a friend or foe? |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2/1/19 | R. Todd Alexander, M.D., Ph.D. University of Alberta |
Calcium Mediated Regulation and Developmental Changes in Intestinal Calcium Absorption |
| 2/25/19 | Kumar Sharma, M.D. UT San Antonio Health Science Center |
Metabolic Kidney Disease |
| 3/25/19 | Wanpen Vongpatanasin, M.D. UT Southwestern |
The Role of Inorganic Phosphate in Cardiometabolic Health and Fitness: Can a common food additive turn you into a couch potato? |
| 4/11/19 | W. Brian Reeves, M.D. UT San Antonio Health Science Center |
Innate Immune Mechanisms of Acute Kidney Injury |
| 9/5/19 | David Bushinsky, M.D. University of Rochester School of Medicine |
Acid-Base and the Skeleton |
| 10/21/19 | Lise Bankir, Ph.D. INSERM, Sorbonne University, Paris, France |
Vasopressin, hydration, and chronic kidney disease |
| 10/22/19 | Lise Bankir, Ph.D. INSERM, Sorbonne University, Paris, France |
Glucagon revisited: coordinated actions on the liver and kidney, and possible role in potassium homeostasis |
| 11/11/19 | Rachel Lennon, M.B.B.S, Ph.D. University of Manchester and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, UK |
Alport syndrome and basement membrane biology |
| 12/2/19 | Bekir Tanriover, M.D., M.P.H. UT Southwestern |
Predictive models and decision tools in renal transplantation |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/29/18 | Joseph M. Rutkowski, Ph.D. Texas A&M College of Medicine |
Lymphatics and lymphangiogenesis in the kidney: is it time to take notice? |
| 3/5/18 | Hartmut H. Malluche, M.D., FACP University of Kentucky |
Renal Osteodystrophy: An Ongoing Challenge for Nephrologists |
| 4/9/18 | Tanya N. Mayadas, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School |
Regulation of Leukocyte Trafficking in Glomerulonephritis |
| 9/12/18 | Mary Leonard, M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine |
A Structural Approach to Metabolic Bone Disease in CKD |
| 10/22/18 | Rick Schnellmann, Ph.D. University of Arizona |
Mitochondrial Biogenesis as a Therapeutic Target for Acute and Chronic Diseases |
| 10/29/18 | Carsten Wagner University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology |
Phosphate: from Deficiency to Excess |
| 11/19/18 | Sagar Nigwekar, M.D. Harvard University |
Vitamin K and MGP in Calciphylaxis |
| 12/13/18 | Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., FRS Washinton University School of Medicine in St. Louis |
KATP Channels and Vascular Pathology: Novel Insights from Cantu Syndrome |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/30/17 | Christian Faul, Ph.D. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
Pathologic Actions of FGF23 in Chronic Kidney Disease |
| 2/17/17 | Robert Lenkinski, Ph.D. UT Southwestern |
Spectral CT in research of Renal Stones and Renal Parenchymal Diseases |
| 2/28/17 | Carla Nester, M.D. University of Iowa |
C3 Glomerulopathy: Complement Dysregulation as Disease Target |
| 3/13/17 | Makoto Kuro-o, M.D., Ph.D. UT Southwestern |
Mechanisms of Phosphatopathy |
| 3/27/17 | Li-Li Hsiao, M.D., Ph.D. Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program (KDSAP): An Innovative Way to Increase Nephrology Workforce |
| 4/10/17 | Samir Parikh, M.D. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Mitochondria and Mechanisms of Renal Stress Resistance |
| 5/1/17 | Donald Wesson, M.D. Baylor Scott & White Health |
Dietary Proteins, Acid-Base Balance, and CKD |
| 8/18/17 | Johannes Loffing, M.D. Professor, University of Zurich, Institute of Anatomy |
"The Renal Distal Convoluted Tubule: Key Player for Na+ and K+ Homeostasis" |
| 10/2/17 | Carlton M. Bates, M.D. Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
"Fgfr signaling in nephron progenitors: Links to metabolism and cystogenesis" |
| 11/20/17 | Matthias Wolf, M.D. Professor, UT Southwestern |
"The urinary protein Uromodulin is a novel magnesiotropic factor" |
| 12/11/17 | Anna Greka, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School |
“ Mechanism-based, podocyte-protective therapy for progressive kidney diseases” |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10/13/16 | Mark L. Zeidel, M.D. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Incontinence and Lower Urinary Tract Syndrome: New Insights From Basic Research |
| 11/21/16 | Olivier Staub, Ph.D. Universite de Lausanne |
Phosphorylation and ubiquitylation networks in the control of sodium and potassium homeostasis by the kidney |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/15/15 | Jeffrey Miner, Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine |
The glomerular filter and the paradigms of pierson and alport syndromes |
| 02/19/15 | Katalin Susztak, M.D., Ph.D. Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
Chronic kidney disease: How to identify targets |
| 03/24/15 | Joseph Flynn, M.D., M.S. Seattle Children’s Hospital |
Progression of chronic kidney disease in children |
| 09/17/15 | John Cijiang He, M.D., Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Systems biology approach to study diabetic kidney disease |
| 10/20/15 | Joachim H. Ix, M.D., M.A.S., FASN University of California, San Diego |
A new approach to phosphate lowering in CKD |
| 11/09/15 | Oliver Devuyst, M.D., Ph.D. University of Zurich - Institute of Physiology |
Uromodulin: From rare to complex kidney disorders |
| 11/19/15 | Doris Herzlinger, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College |
Transcriptional regulation of renal vascular patterning |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/23/14 | Charmaine Lok, M.D. University of Toronto |
Vascular Access: Facts, Fish Tales, and Fantasies |
| 02/06/14 | Ambra Pozzi, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical School |
Extracellular Matrix and Growth Factor Receptors in Healthy and Diseased Kidney |
| 03/20/14 | Raymond Harris, M.D. Vanderbilt University Medical School |
The Potential Role of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Acute and Chronic Kidney Injury |
| 04/17/14 | David Pearce, M.D. University of California, San Francisco |
Mechanisms of specificity in the control of kidney tubule sodium transport. |
| 09/18/14 | Vicki Huff, Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
WT1 in kidney development and human disease |
| 09/30/14 | Bradley Warady, M.D. Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City |
Improving the care of children on peritoneal dialysis |
| 10/16/14 | Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. San Francisco General Hospital |
Surveilling chronic kidney disease in the United States |
| 11/17/14 | René Bindels, Ph.D. Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands |
Stepstones towards understanding renal calcium and magnesium handling |
| 12/11/14 | Harald W. Jueppner, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital |
FGF23: More than a phosphate-regulating hormone |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/17/13 | Youhua Liu, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Communication: New Paradigm in Fibroblast Activation and Renal Fibrosis |
| 02/21/13 | Bertram L. Kasiske, M.D., F.A.C.P. University of Minnesota School of Medicine |
Unraveling the Pathogenesis of CVD in CKD: Are Kidney Donors at Risk? |
| 03/19/13 | Isidro Salusky, M.D. David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles |
Bone-FGF23 and CKD -MBD |
| 04/18/13 | Chi-Yuan Hsu, M.D., M.S. University of California, San Francisco Medical Center |
The Links Among Acute, Chronic and End-stage Renal Disease |
| 05/14/13 | Gerhard Giebisch, M.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
Renal and Extrarenal Aspects of Potassium Homeostasis |
| 06/27/13 | Milagros Samaniego-Picota, M.D. University of Michigan Medical School |
ln search of a clinical biomarker in kidney transplantation; Donor specific antibodies - past, present, and future |
| 09/19/13 | Leif Oxburgh, D.V.M., Ph.D. Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute |
Control of Nephron Formation in the Embryonic Kidney |
| 10/17/13 | Alda Tufro, M.D., Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
Semaphorin 3A Role in Renal Development and Disease |
| 11/04/13 | Alessandra Boletta, Ph.D. San Raffaele Scientific Institute |
Polycystin-1 Binds Par3/aPKC and Controls Convergent Extension during Renal Tubular Morphogenesis |
| 12/05/13 | Ian Smyth, Ph.D. Monash University |
An integrated view of cell and tissue dynamics during renal development |
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08/29/12 | Alessia Fornoni, M.D., Ph.D. University of Miami School of Medicine |
Podocyte Lipids in FSGS and Diabetic Nephropathy |
| 09/27/12 | Fiona Cowles, Ph.D. University of Otago School of Medical Science |
Regulation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) by COMMD family proteins |
| 10/18/12 | Ora A. Weisz, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
Apical Traffic in Renal Epithelial Cells |
| 10/31/12 | Edith Hummler, Ph.D., MER, PD University of Lausanne |
ENaC in salt and potassiumhomeostasis–knockouts, transgenics, and TALEN |
| 11/15/12 | Joshua Lipschutz, M.D. University of Pennsylvania Medical Center |
The Role of Cdc42 and the Exocystin Ciliogenesis and Cystogenesis |