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O'Brien Seminar Series

2009-2010

The Lectures will again be held at the Faculty Club at 5:00PM for each of the following dates.

10/1/09** Gary Desir, M.D. Yale University
10/15/09 Michi Umetani UT Southwestern
11/5/09** David Ellison, M.D. University of Oregon Health Sciences Center
11/19/09 Rong Ma, M.D., Ph.D. University of North Texas Health Science Center
12/3/09** Jochen Reiser, M.D., Ph.D. Miami Miller School of Medicine
12/17/09 Quan Li, Ph.D. UT Southwestern
1/7/10 Wanpen Vongpatanasin, M.D. UT Southwestern
1/21/10** Lynda Szczech, M.D. Duke
2/4/10 Robert Toto, M.D. UT Southwestern
2/18/10** Chirag Parikh, M.D. Yale School of Medicine
3/4/10** Uptal Patel, M.D. Duke
3/18/10 Amelia Eisch, Ph.D. UT Southwestern
4/1/10** Lloyd Cantley, M.D. Yale School of Medicine
4/15/10 Vishal Patel, M.D. UT Southwestern
5/6/10   Annual Symposium
**Lecture Co-Sponsored by the Norman W. Carter Lecture Fund and Nephrology Division of Internal Medicine.

2008-2009

09/04/08 Leighton James, M.D. UT Southwestern CTGF, Hexosamine Flux and the Kidney! Quo Vadis?
09/18/08 Matthew Breyer, M.D.
Eli Lillly and Company - Lilly Research Laboratories
Genetics of diabetic nephropathy in mice
10/02/08 Thomas Carroll, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Wnt Signaling and Regulation of Epithelial Tubule Diameter.
11/20/08 Peter Igarashi, M.D. UT Southwestern Pathogenesis of Cystic Kidney Diseases
12/02/08 Moshe Levi, M.D. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Potential role of nuclear receptors including VDR in diabetic nephropathy
12/04/08 Igor Stagljar, Ph.D. University of Toronto Membrane protein complexes and functional pathways: from ABC transporters to Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
12/18/08 John Wallingford, Ph.D. UT Austin Planar Cell Polarity and Ciliogenesis: From neural tube defects to polycystic kidney disease
01/15/09 Alan Davidson, Ph.D. Harvard Kidney development in Zebrafish
02/05/09 Mark Rosenberg, M.D. University of Minnesota Renal Regeneration
02/13/09

Cheryl Walker, Ph.D.  &

Eric Jonasch, M.D.

MD Anderson Cancer Center The Kidney 3 C’s: Cilia, Cysts and Cancer
02/19/09 Massimo Attanasio, M.D. UT Southwestern Nephronophthisis and human ciliopathies
03/05/09 Chou-Long Huang, M.D., Ph.D. UT Southwestern Klotho and Kidney Diseases
03/19/09 Barbara Ehrlich, Ph.D. Yale University The inner life of cells: regulation of intracellar calcium
3/31/2009 Carlton Matthew Bates, M.D. Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh  Role of Fibroblast growth factor receptors in the kidney
04/02/09 Alfred Cheung, M.D. The University of Utah Hemodialysis Vascular Access.
04/16/09 Dr. Helen McNeill  Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Planar Cell Polarity in Development and Cystic Kidney Disease
5/7/09 Stefan Somlo, MD
Yale 2009 2nd Annual Symposium
05/21/09 Ravi Ishwar Thadhani, M.D. Harvard Vitamin D in Renal Disease: Observations, Biology, and Trials

2007-2008

10/25/2007 Makoto Kuro-O, M.D./Ph.D. UT Southwestern “Klotho and Phosphate Metabolism”
11/15/2007 Sanjay Nigam, MD Univ California, San Diego “Budding and Branching in the Developing Kidney”
2/28/2008 Benjamin L. Margolis, MD Univ Michigan “Protein Complexes that Control Cell Polarity and Ciliogenesis”
3/20/2008 Thomas M. Coffman, MD Division of Nephrology, Duke  “The Kidney in Hypertension: Guyton Revisited”
4/10/2008 Klaus B. Piontek, PhD Johns Hopkins “Early Loss of PKD1 Defines an Important Development Switch in the Kidney”
4/24/2008 Joseph Bonventre, MD, PhD Harvard  
5/55/2008 Samir S. El-Dahr, M.D. Tulane