Kidney Development and Disease

<div>A. Model Systems of Kidney Development and Disease:&nbsp;</div><div>1. Madhu Tapadia &nbsp; madhu@bhu.ac.in</div><div>Co-author: Naveen Gautam gautam.naveen6@gmail.com&nbsp;</div><div>Topic: Drosophila Malpighian Tubule Development</div><div><br></div><div>2. Alan Davidson a.davidson@auckland.ac.nz&nbsp;</div><div>Co-author: Richard Naylor</div><div>Topic: Zebrafish Nephron Formation</div><div><br></div><div></div>3. Rebecca Wingert rwingert@nd.edu&nbsp;<div>Co-author: graduate student</div><div>Topic: Zebrafish as a model of kidney disease</div><div><br></div><div>4. Kelly McLaughlin kelly.mclaughlin@tufts.edu </div><div>Co-author: Shoshoni Caine</div><div>Topic: Use of Xenopus frogs to study renal development/repair</div><div><br></div><div>B. Cell Renewal, Differentiation and Fate in Nephrogenesis:</div><div>5.</div> Zubaida Saifudeen zubisaif@tulane.edu&nbsp;<div>Topic: p53-Energy metabolism directed renewal vs differentiation</div><div><br></div><div>6. Peter Hohenstein peter.hohenstein@roslin.ed.ac.uk</div><div>Co-author: Derya Ozdemir Derya.Ozdemir@roslin.ed.ac.uk&nbsp;</div><div>Topic: Wilms’ tumors and differentiation (tentative)</div><div><br></div><div>7. Leif Oxburgh oxburl@mmc.org&nbsp;</div><div>Co-authors: Deepthi Muthukrishnan, Aaron Brown, Sarah McCarthy, Jennifer Fetting</div><div>Topic: Growth factor regulation in the nephrogenic zone</div><div><br></div><div>8. Wenzheng Zhang Wenzheng.zhang@uth.tmc.edu</div><div>Co-aut</div>hors: Lihe Chen and Paul Higgins Topic: Development and Diseases of the Collecting Duct&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>9. Norman Rosenblum norman.rosenblum@sickkids.ca</div><div>Co-authors: Christopher Rowan and Sepideh Sheybani Deloui</div><div>Topic: Origin and function of the renal stroma in health and disease</div><div></div><br><div>C. Nephron Morphogenesis and Maintenance:</div><div>10. Ian Smyth ian.smyth@monash.edu&nbsp;</div><div>Co-author: Kieran Short kieran.short@monash.edu&nbsp;</div><div>Topic: integrating tissue morphology and cellular events during branching morphogenesis in the developing kidney</div><div><br></div><div>11. Kimberly Reidy kreidy@montefiore.org&nbsp;</div><div>Topic: Polarity Proteins in Kidney Development and Disease (tentative) </div><div></div><div></div><br><div>12. Pamela Tran ptran@kumc.edu&nbsp;</div><div>Topic: Cilia in Cystic Kidney Disease</div><div><br></div><div>13. Brad Yoder byoder@uab.edu&nbsp;</div><div>Co-authors: Cheng Song song1c@uab.edu&nbsp;</div><div>Kurt A Zimmerman zimmermk@uab.edu&nbsp;</div><div>Topic: Inflammation and Fibrosis in Polycystic Kidney Disease</div><div><br></div><div>14.</div> Ana Sofia Cruz sofiacruzs@gmail.com<div>Co-authors: Arvind Bhimaraj and Keith Youker</div><div>Topic: Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Kidney Fibrosis</div><div><br></div>