Keynote Speaker:
Paola Arlotta, PhD
Understanding human brain development and disease: from embryos to organoids

Abstract Competition Winners:
Dr. Wei-Chien Yuan [Camargo Lab]
Hbo1 is an...

Guest speaker:
Melissa Little, PhD
Theme Director of Cell Biology and Head, Kidney Research Laboratory, Murdoch Chidlren's Research Institute
Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Program Leader of Stem Cells Australia

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HSCI Kidney Interlab Fellowships Update

Presenters:
Amar Majumdar, MD, PhD
Hildebrandt Lab | Boston Childrens Hospital | Harvard Medical School
Genetics of heritable kidney disease

Navin Gupta, MD
Bonventre Lab | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard Medical School
Engineering new kidneys

Pizza and beverages will be provided.  All members of the HSCI research community are encouraged and welcome to...

Guest speaker:
Andrew P. McMahon, PhD
W.M. Keck Provost Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and Biological Sciences
Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center For Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research
University of Southern California

Faculty host:  Bill Anderson

Postdocs wishing to share lunch with Andy, immediately following his seminar, should email...

Kidney Program Inter-lab meeting - Open to all members of the HSCI research community for a robust, interdisciplinary discussion - no registration required!

Guest lecturers:
Samira Musah, PhD
Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellow
NIH/NIDDK Nephrology Research Fellow
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Harvard Medical School, Genetics Dept.
Ingber and Church Laboratories
"Directed differentiation of human iPS cells to reconstitute kidney glomerular...

Program: 

HSCI Kidney Program Inter-lab Meeting
Open to all members of the HSCI research community - no registration required.

Guest speakers:
Anna Greka, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Director, Glom-NExT Center for Glomerular Kidney Disease and Novel Experimental Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Synaptopodin is a coincidence detector of tyrosine versus serine/threonine phosphorylation for the...

HSCI Kidney Inter-lab Meeting

Guest speakers:
Dr. Ryuji Morizani
Bonventre Lab
Renal Division and Division of Biomedical Engineering
Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard Medical School

Prof. Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D.
Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Paulsen School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Co-Director, Harvard...

Guest speaker:
Leif Oxburgh
Senior Scientist, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

All members of the HSCI research community are welcome - no registration required!
Pizza and beverages provided.

Kidney Group Meeting - no registration - all members of the HSCI research community are welcome.

Presenter:
Zhixiang Tong, PhD
Post doctoral Fellow, Karp Lab
Division of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Medicine
Center for Regenerative Therapeutics
Brigham and Women's Hospital

BWH Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar

Online registration recommended.

Presentation:Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Renal Division, HMS
and
Rafael Kramann, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Humphreys Lab

Organ fibrosis is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world, but the pathogenic mechanisms...

Presentations by:
Caramai Kamei (Drummond Lab)
"Identifying progenitor cells in zebrafish kidney regeneration"

Rafael Kramann (Humphreys Lab)
"Perivascular progenitors in fibrotic disease"

No registration necessary - open to all members of the HSCI research community - in all disease areas.

"Shifting the TGF-B/BMP signaling paradigm in renal and metabolic disease"