Seminars
Renal Research Conference
Weekly meetings hosted by the Vanderbilt O'Brien Kidney Center at 8:30 a.m. CT on Fridays
The Vanderbilt O'Brien Kidney Center (VOKC) Renal Research Conference occurs Fridays at 8:30 a.m. CT from September through May each academic calendar year. The conference aims to:
- Provide junior investigators from Vanderbilt and partner institutions with a supportive venue where they can hone their presentation skills and practice responding to questions
- Foster collaborations between VOKC investigator with directors of core laboratories at VUMC and investigators from laboratories at Vanderbilt Univeristy by sharing research capabilities and interests
- Provide senior investigators within VOKC with the opportunity to present early work for feedback and critical review from colleagues
- Invite pioneering renal researchers from around the world to share latest findings with VOKC investigator
Past Presenters
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Jan. 7, 2022 | Colin Reily, PhD | Immunoglobulins and Pathobiology of IgA Nephropathy |
Jan. 14, 2022 | Susan B. Gurley, MD, PhD | ACE2 in 2022 – A Focus on the Kidney |
Jan. 21, 2022 | Adriana Hung, MD, MPH | Genetic Determinants of Diabetic Kidney Disease |
Feb. 4, 2022 | Reena Rao, PhD | New pathogenic roles of vasopressin type-2 receptors |
Feb. 11, 2022 | Gabriel Loeb, MD, PhD | Protective Effects of Renal G protein-coupled Estrogen Receptor in Hypertension |
Feb. 18, 2022 | Billy Hudson, PhD | Goodpasture’s Disease: A Window into the Architecture and Function of the Kidney Filter |
Feb. 25, 2022 | Arohan R. Subramanya, MD, FASN | Amplifying Potassium Sensing and Responsiveness in the Kidney via WNK Kinases |
March 4, 2022 | William Fissell, MD | Overcoming the Dedifferentiation of Cell Culture Stress in Renal Tubule Cells |
March 18, 2022 | Moshe Levy, MD | The Role of Nuclear Receptors in Regulation of Metabolism and Disease |
March 25, 2022 | Marcus Bitzer, MD | MicroRNAs: Disease modulators with complex functions |
April 8, 2022 | W. David Merryman, PhD | Targeting Cadherin-11 for Chronic Kidney Disease |
April 22, 2022 | Kerri Cavanaugh, MD, MHS | Testing innovations to improve communication healthcare visit information to patients & caregivers |
April 29, 2022 | Ronak Lakhia, MD | Genetic and Epigenetic Regulators of Polycystic Kidney Disease |
May 6, 2022 | Robert J. Coffey, Jr., MD | Recent Progress onExtracellular Vesicles and Nanoparticles: Tracing Footsteps of DPEP1 |
May 13, 2022 | Shuvo Roy, PhD | Constructing an Implantable Bioartificial Kidney |
May 20, 2022 | Mary Choi, MD | Mitochondria and Necroptosis –New Insights into Human and Experimental Kidney Disease |
May 27, 2022 | Bethany Birkelo, DO | COVID-19-associated Acute Kidney Injury |
May 27, 2022 | Kuniko Hunter | TGFB and Metformin Mediate Substrate Metabolism in Vitro |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Jan. 8, 2021 | Jorge Gamboa, MD, PhD | Bioenergetic and Structural Impairment of Skeletal Muscle in Chronic Kidney Disease |
Jan. 22, 2021 | Carl Oberg, MD, PhD | Physiology of Solute and Water Transport Across Glomerular Capillary Walls |
Jan. 29, 2021 | Anna Greka, MD, PhD | Membrane proteins and disrupted mechanisms of cellular homeos |
Feb. 5, 2021 | Brian Rini, MD, FASCO | Updates on Biology and Clinical Approach to Metastatic Kidney Cancer |
Feb. 12, 2021 | Eman Gohar, PhD | Protective Effects of Renal G protein-coupled Estrogen Receptor in Hypertension |
Feb. 19, 2021 | John P Fisher, PhD | 3D Printing for Engineering Complex Tissues |
Feb. 26, 2021 | Oliver Devuyst, MD | From Rare to Common: The Genetic Architecture of Kidney Disease |
March 5, 2021 | Marcus Moeller, MD | The glomerular filter as electrical power house |
March 12, 2021 | Benjamin "Beno" Freedman, PhD | Human Kidney Organoids for Therapy Development |
March 19, 2021 | Jan Kielstein, MD | Extracorporeal removal of pathogens - why and how? |
March 26, 2021 | Craig Brooks, PhD | IL-22 Promotes Nephrotoxin induced AKI through Activation of the DNA Damage Response |
April 2, 2021 | Jason Wertheim, MD PhD | Regenerative Technologies for (Re)Building Tissues: Scaffolds and Cellular Populations |
April 16, 2021 | Andrew Terker, MD, PhD | Potassium channels you’ve never heard of: in kidney health and disease |
April 23, 2021 | Javier Jaramillo Morales, MD and Melis Sahinoz, MD | Mitochondrial function in the skeletal muscle of patients with chronic kidney disease and heart failure |
April 30, 2021 | Matthew H. Wilson, MD, PhD | Adventures in Engineering Gene Therapy for Cystinuria |
May 14, 2021 | Fabian Bock, MD, PhD | Rac1 promotes renal epithelial collecting duct integrity |
May 21, 2021 | Selene Colon , PhD | The Complex Role of Peroxidasin in Injury |
Sept. 10, 2021 | Combined with KPT: Peter Nickerson, MD | HLA molecular mismatch: A Tool for Precision in Transplant Medicine |
Sept. 17, 2021 | Michelle Reyzer, PhD | Imaging Mass Spectrometry: Applications to Biology |
Sept. 24, 2021 | JP Cartailler, PhD, and Leesa Sampson, PhD | Bioinformatics and Informatics Services Offered by Creative Data Solutions, a Vanderbilt Shared Resource |
Oct. 8, 2021 | Navjot Pabla, PhD | Protein Kinase Inhibitors and Acute Kidney Injury |
Oct. 15, 2021 | David M Patrick, MD, PhD | Cardiovascular Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Mechanistic Insights |
Oct. 22, 2021 | Megan G. Behringer, PhD | Evolutionary Traps: How can experimental evolution inform medicine and biomedical research? |
Oct. 29, 2021 | Ali Gharavi, MD | Genomic Medicine in Nephrology |
Nov. 12, 2021 | Corina Borza, PhD | Discoidin Domain Receptor 1 Contributes to Kidney Inflammation and Fibrosis by Promoting the Phosphorylation of Breakpoint Cluster Region Protein and STAT3 |
Nov. 19, 2021 | Matt Luther, MD | Aldosterone, Exosomes and Renal Sodium Channels |
Dec. 3, 2021 | Ken Lau, PhD | Constructing and Validating a Human Pre-Cancer Atlas |
Dec. 10, 2021 | JP Arroyo, MD, PhD | Vasopressin and the Local Response to Extracellular Fluid Tonicity Changes |
Dec. 17, 2021 | Janos Peti-Peterdi, MD, PhD | A New View of Macula Densa Cells in Renal |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Jan. 10, 2020 | Susan Ziolkowski, MD | Rethinking Sarcopenia and the Obesity Paradox in CKD |
Jan. 17, 2020 | Ming-zhi Zhang, MD | Myeloid Cyclooxygenase 2 in Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology |
Jan. 31, 2020 | Denise Marciano, MD, PhD | Mechanisms of tissue morphogenesis in the kidney |
Feb. 7, 2020 | Brad H. Rovin, MD, FACP, FASN | Kidney Biopsy-Based Management of Immunosuppression for Patients with Lupus Nephritis |
Feb. 21, 2020 | Leslie Gewin, MD | Renal tubular beta-catenin protects in AKI to CKD |
Feb. 28, 2020 | Brandon Kistler, PhD, RD | Nutrition during Hemodialysis: Current Evidence and Opportunitites for Growth |
March 6, 2020 | Lorraine Ware, MD | The Aster Clinical Trial: Are New Treatments for Sepsis-Induced AKI Blooming? |
April 17, 2020 | Kuniko Hunter, graduate student | AMPK – and non-canonical TGFb-signaling mediate in vitro differentiation and metabolic reprogramming of human renal tubule epithelial cells |
May 1, 2020 | Kensei Taguchi, MD, PhD | Cyclin G1-mediated dedifferentiation of kidney tubular cells modulates AKI to CKD transition |
May 8, 2020 | Kerri Cavanaugh, MD, MHS | Evaluating Communication as a Key Determinant in Hemodialysis Care |
May 29, 2020 | Edward Siew, MD, MSCI | Intermediate Clinical and Patient-Centered Outcomes After Acute Kidney Injury |
Sept. 11, 2020 | Raymond Harris, MD | Role of Macrophage IRF4 In Response to Ischemic Kidney Injury |
Sept. 18, 2020 | Elena Pokidysheva, PhD | A COL4A3 variant provides opportunity to uncover function and dysfunction of glomerular BM suprastructure in Alport disease |
Oct. 2, 2020 | Ryan Hsi, MD | Selective versus empiric strategies for reducing kidney stone recurrence |
Oct. 16, 2020 | Lauren Woodard, PhD | Genome Engineering of Stem Cells for Kidney Regneration |
Oct. 30, 2020 | Yu Pan (Penny) | |
Nov. 6, 2020 | Roberto Vanacore, PhD | Insights into the Role of Post-Translational Modifications of Collagen in Tissue Functions and Disease |
Nov. 13, 2020 | John Stafford, MD, PhD | Sex Differences in Cardiometabolic Disease; Implications for CKD |
Nov. 20, 2020 | Antonis Hatzopoulos PhD, FAHA | Mechanisms of Tissue Repair and Regeneration |
Dec. 4, 2020 | Khaled Abdel-Kader, MD | Real-Time Population Health Management Using the EHR |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Jan. 11, 2019 | Matthias Kretzler, MD | Precision Medicine for FSGS: The Neptune Experience |
Jan. 18, 2019 | Vivek Kasinath, MD | Activation of Fibroblastic Reticular Cells in Kidney Lymph Node during Crescentic Glomerulonephritis |
Jan. 25, 2019 | Ebele Umeukeje, MD | Patient-Centered Approaches to Reducing Kidney Disease |
Feb. 1, 2019 | Neal Paragas, PhD | Cell-Specific Image-Guided Transcriptomics of Acute Kidney Injury |
Feb. 15, 2019 | Bennett Landman, PhD | Opportunities for Machine Learning with Radiology: Learning to Improve Patient Care with ImageVU's 100 Trillion Pixels |
Feb. 22, 2019 | Kelly Birdwell, MD, MSCI | APOL1 and Kidney Transplant Outcomes |
March 1, 2019 | Ashley Pitzer, PhD | Contribution of ASC-inflammasome to vascular injury and dysfunction: Role of RNA Receptor RIG-I |
March 8, 2019 | Craig Brook, PhD | Quantifying organellar dynamics in kidney tissue with structured illumination microscopy |
March 15, 2019 | Alfred Cheung, MD | AVF Maturation Failure |
March 22, 2019 | Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, FAHA | Salt-Sensitivity in Hypertension and Renal Inflammation: A Role of Oxidative Lipid Modifications |
April 5, 2019 | Adriana Hung, MD, MPH | Comparative Effectiveness of SGLT2 in Euglycemic DKD: Bone Health and Lower Limb Amputation; Genetics of DKD in the MVP |
April 12, 2019 | Paul Voziyan, PhD | Mass spectrometry reveals macromolecular damage in the kidney |
April 19, 2019 | Devika Nair, MD | Psychological and Spiritual Support for Vulnerable Patients in Person-Centered Kidney Disease Care |
April 26, 2019 | Maya Vinzing, PhD | Preclinical Safety Tesing in Cardiovascular Development at Bayer |
May 3, 2019 | Kirk Campbell, MD | Novel Mediators of Podocyte Injury in Glomerular Disease Progression |
May 10, 2019 | Kyle Brown, PhD | Structure-Function Studies of Integrin a1b1 |
May 17, 2019 | Bo Faust, PhD | Profilin-mediated actin allocation regulates the growth of epithelial microvilli |
May 24, 2019 | Dirk Thomas, MD, PhD and Mario Berger, PhD | How to address the kidney in Early Drug Development; Biomarkers in the Kidney Arena, New Insights |
Sept. 6, 2019 | Takamune Takahashi, MD, PhD | Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase as a Therapeutic Target for Diabetic Nephropathy |
Sept. 13, 2019 | David P. Basile, PhD | The_17 Mediation of Repair and Disease Progression Following Kidney Injury: Two Sides of the Same (cyto) Coin |
Sept. 20, 2019 | Lauren Scarfe, PhD | Modeling AKI to CKD Transition in Mice |
Sept. 27, 2019 | Sergey Budko, PhD | Mysteries of mutations in Alport syndrome |
Oct. 4, 2019 | Volker Haase, MD | Mitochondrial dysfunction in renal pathogenesis |
Oct. 11, 2019 | Nick Ferrell, PhD | Tissue Mechanics in Diabetic Kidney Disease |
Oct. 18, 2019 | Venkata Sabbisetti, PhD | Novel therapeutic strategies for kidney diseases |
Nov. 1, 2019 | Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, PhD | Mendelian Randomization and CKD Mineral Bone Disorder |
Nov. 15, 2019 | Ambra Pozzi, PhD | Fused in Sarcoma: a DNA-RNA binding protein involved in fibrosis |
Nov. 22, 2019 | Subhashini Bolisetty, PhD | Different Faces of Ferritin in Acute Kidney Injury |
Dec. 6, 2019 | Nisha Bansal, MD | New Strategies for Blood Pressure Management in Hemodialysis Patients |
Dec. 13, 2019 | Shuto Ishibe, MD | Pathobiology and Insights into the treatment of nephrotic syndrome |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Jan. 19, 2018 | Ryan M. Allen, PhD | Lipoprotein-bound, microbial small RNAs in health and disease - A work in progress |
Jan. 26, 2018 | Daisuke Katagiri, MD, PhD, FASN | Nitric Oxide and Endothelial-Podocyte Crosstalk in Diabetic Nephropathy |
Feb. 2, 2018 | Anupam Agarwal, MD | Lymphangiogenesis in the pathogenesis of acute kidney injury |
Feb. 9, 2018 | Manuel Chiusa, PhD | Nuclear DDR1 Story! |
Feb. 16, 2018 | Richard Breyer, PhD | Asprosin: Does this hormone make me look fat? |
Feb. 23, 2018 | Laura Dember, MD | Pragmatic Trials in Dialysis: An Appealing Alterantive? |
March 9, 2018 | William Fissell, MD | It Takes a Village: Implantable Artifical Kidney |
March 16, 2018 | Matthew Wilson, MD, PhD | Adventures in Genome Engineering for Kidney Disease |
April 6, 2018 | Elizabeth Phillips, MD | Preventing Serious Immunologically Medicated Adverse Drug Reactions as a Model for Personalized Medicine |
April 27, 2018 | Amy Major, PhD | Preventing Serious Immunologically Medicated Adverse Drug Reactions as a Model for Personalized Medicine |
May 4, 2018 | Roberto Vanacore, PhD | MicroRNA-22 as a Potential Pathogenic Modifier of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Associated Kidney Disease |
May 11, 2018 | Stefan Somlo, MD | Role of LOXL2-mediated collagen crosslinking in diabetic nephropathy |
May 18, 2018 | Patrick H. Nachman, MD, FASN | The Molecular Genetics of Polysystic Kidney and Liver Diseases |
May 25, 2018 | Marika Manolopoulou, MD | The Fast Pace of Change in Membranous Nephropathy |
Sept. 7, 2018 | Alp Ikizler, MD | TGF-beta Signaling in Proximal Tubules Affects Chronic Injury Response Through Cell Cycle |
Sept. 14, 2018 | Steven Coca, DO, MS | Macronutrient Utilization in Advanced Kidney Disease: Implications for Protein Energy Wasting Syndrome |
Sept. 21, 2018 | Jonathan Scott Maltzman, MD, PhD, FAST | Leveraging Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease: Current and Future Applications |
Sept. 28, 2018 | Ming-Zhi Zhang, MD | Protective immune responses to CMV in solid organ transplantation |
Oct. 5, 2018 | Matthew Semler, MD, MSCI | Gender Differences in the Development of Glomerulopathy in Mice with an EGFR Agin0of-Function Mutation |
Oct. 12, 2018 | ASN Practice | Balanced Crystaloids versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults |
Oct. 19, 2018 | Motoko Yanagita, MD, PhD | The Mechanism of AKI to CKD |
Nov. 2, 2018 | Stellor Nlandu Khodo, PhD | Epithelial beta-Catenin Activation In Chronic Renal Injury |
Nov. 9, 2018 | Julie Wright Nunes, MD, MPH | Kidney Disease Prevention: When Research Meets Reality |
Nov. 16, 2018 | Ethan Lippmann, PhD | Modeling and Understanding Neurovascular Function and Disease Using Human iPSCs and Engineering Strategies |
Nov. 30, 2018 | Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD | Innovation in Transplantation: From Bench to Bedside |
Dec. 7, 2018 | Lauren Woodard, PhD | Kidney Stem Cells: From New to Old and Back Again |
Dec. 14, 2018 | Sandeep Mallipattu, MD | Krüppel-Like Factors: Three Fingers in Control of Kidney Disease |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Jan. 11, 2017 | Jim Shayman, MD | Lysosomal Biology in Rare and Common Diseases |
Jan.18, 2017 | Tess Dupre, PhD | Sphingolipids in cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury |
Jan. 25, 2017 | Jim Shayman, MD | Lysosomal Biology in Rare and Common Diseases |
Feb. 1, 2017 | Jens Mark Titze, MD | Salty food induces body water conservation and decreases fluid intake |
Feb. 8, 2017 | Jens Mark Titze, MD | High-salt intake reprioritizes osmolyte and energy metabolism for body fluid conservation |
Feb. 15, 2017 | Matthew Sparks, MD | Vascular Type 1 Angiotensin Receptors in blood Pressure Regulation |
Feb. 22, 2017 | John McLean, PhD | Big Data in Untargeted Metabolomics |
March 1, 2017 | Leslie Gewin, MD | TGF-beta and the Goldilocks Principle |
March 15, 2017 | Hanako Kobayashi, PhD | Renal Interstitial Cells: kidney development, Erythropoietin regulation, and fibrosis |
March 29, 2017 | Bruce Molitoris, MD | Gentamicin, a link to unlocking monogenic premature stop codon diseases |
April 5, 2017 | Craig Brooks, PhD | Cycling towards Fibrosis: Cell Cycle and Autophagy Proteins Drive Kidney Fibrosis |
April 12, 2017 | Aseel Alsouqi, PhD | Tissue Sodium Accumulation: Studies in Pre-Hypertensive and ESRD Patients |
April 26, 2017 | Ming-Zhi Zhang, MD | Macrophage CXO-2 in kidney injury |
May 3, 2017 | Kathleen Liu, MD | AKI Biomarkers: A Work in Progress |
May 24, 2017 | Edward Siew, MD, MSCI | Post-AKI Outcomes: Beyond the Fall |
Sept. 8, 2017 | Raymond Harris, MD | The Role of the Erbb Family in Acute Kidney Injury |
Sept. 15, 2017 | Volker Haase, MD | Oxygen metabolism in Renal Disease |
Sept. 22, 2017 | Eric Delpire, PhD | Novel mutations in human SLC12A transporters: Challenges of unique clinical cases |
Sept. 29, 2017 | Michael King, PhD | Collaboration Opportunities in Biomedical Engineering/King Lab Research on Platelets and Metastasis |
Oct. 6, 2017 | Philip Halloran, MD | Reschedule - Combining KPT with RRC |
Oct. 13, 2017 | Subramaniam Pennathur, MD | Myeloperoxidase, CKD and Atherosclerosis |
Oct. 27, 2017 | Rafael Kramann, MD | Perivascular Progenitors in Fibrotic and Cardiovascular Disease |
Nov. 10, 2017 | Jerrod S. Denton, PhD | Exploring the therapeutic potential of renal inward rectifier potassium channels |
Nov. 17, 2017 | Khaled Abdel-Kader, MD, MS | Risk Stratifying Older Adults with CKD |
Dec. 1, 2017 | Jay Bhave, MD, PhD | Role of Hypobromous Acid in Tissue Biology |
Dec. 8, 2017 | Matthew S. Shotwell, PhD | Using Leftover Blood from Clinical Labs to Study Individual and Population Pharmacokinetics |
Dec. 15, 2017 | Erin Plosa, MD | Epithelial B1 Integrin Regulates Lung Innate Immunity |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Sept. 7, 2016 | Billy Hudson, PhD | Goodpasture's disease: a window into the dawn of the extracellular matrix and multicellular tissues |
Sept. 14, 2016 | Nick Ferrell, PhD | Mechanotransduction in the Kidney |
Sept. 21, 2016 | Daniel Hu, MD | Muscle-Kidney Communication via the Myokine Irisin Suppresses Renal Metabolic Reprogramming and Fibrosis in Mice |
Sept. 28, 2016 | Matthew Tyska, PhD | Imaging with STORM and SIM: a revolution in resolution |
Oct. 5, 2016 | Cassieanne Robinson-Cohen, PhD | Race, Genetic Variation, and Mineral Metabolism Disturbances |
Oct. 12, 2016 | Craig Duvall, PhD | Optimization of Molecularly Targeted RNAi Therapies Against Undruggable Targets; A Missed Opportunity in Renal Diseases? |
Oct. 19, 2016 | Agnes Fogo, MD | Mechanisms of Progression - Beyond the Glomerulus |
Oct. 26, 2016 | Matt Luther, MD | Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids and Insulin Sensitivity |
Nov. 2, 2016 | Joshua P. Fessel, MD, PhD | Mitochondrial Biology and Techniques for Study |
Nov. 9, 2016 | Rachel Forbes, MD; Jessica Overstreet, PhD; Sharidan Parr, MD; Jianchun Chen, MD; Huifang Cheng, MD | ASN Practice: Oral Abstract Presentations |
Nov. 30, 2016 | Alexander Staruschenko, PhD | Calcium Signaling as an Emerging Determinant of Podocyte Injury in Diabetic Nephropathy |
Dec. 7, 2016 | Jose Gomez, PhD | A New Role for Sox6 in Blood Pressure Regulation |
Dec. 14, 2016 | Mark de Caestecker, MBBS, PhD | The Case for Phenotypic vs. Target-based Drug-Discovery for Acute Kidney Injury |
Contact the Reneal Research Conference organizers:
For more information and questions, please email Lindsey Schindler, Program Manager, or call (615) 343-5400.