Thursday May 28

08.30     Registration

09.00     Introduction

Renal development and malformative disorders Coordinator: Adrian Woolf

09.15     Development of the renal-urogenital system
Adrian Woolf
10.00     Malformative Syndromes with renal involvement
Nine Knoers

10.45     Coffee break

11.15     Anomalous kidney development and associated genes        
Stefanie Weber
12.00     Genetic approaches to renal malformations:
Simone Sanna-Cherchi

12.45     Lunch

 

Glomerular Disorders
Coordinator. Corinne Antignac

14.30     Hereditary podocytopathies
Corinne Antignac
15.15     Inherited diseases of the glomerular basement membrane
Marie Claire Gubler

16.00     Coffee break

16.30     Renal involvment in mitochondriopathies
Francesco Emma
17.15     Genetic aspects of IgA nephropathy
Francesco Scolari

Friday May 29

Tubular disorders
Coordinator. Martin Konrad

09.00     Genetics bases of salt reabsorption and related disorders - Martin Konrad
09.45     Genetics bases of ion channels and related disordes - Olivier Devuyst

10.30     Coffee break

11.00     Genetics of Diabetic Nephropathy - Francesco Cucca
The renal disease associated with mutations in the HNF1B gene
Coralie Bingham
12.30     Renal Disorders in Alström syndrome         Francesco Scolari

13.00     Lunch

Cystic disorders and ciliopathies
Coord Alessandra Boletta

14.30     Polycystic kidney disease                                Alessandra Boletta
15.15     Uromodulinopathies                                         Luca Rampoldi

16.00     Coffee break

16.30     Nephronophthisis and Joubert related syndromes
Enza Maria Valente
17.15     Clinical and therapeutic aspects on cystic diseases
Giuseppe Remuzzi
18.00     Organ transplantation in genetic kidney diseases
Jean Pierre Grunfeld

20.00     Social Dinner

 

Saturday May 30

New frontiers in genetic renal disorders
Coordinator: coord. Jean Pierre Grunfeld

09.00     Neuron-like communications in glomerular cells
Maria Pia Rastaldi
09.45     Renal progenitor cells in human kidneys
Paola Romagnani

10.30     Coffee break

11.00     Advances in the pathogenetic mechanisms of renal fibrosis
Giulio Gabbiani
11.45     MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulation on podocyte genes
Scott Harvey

12.30     Quality assessment and CME tests

13.00     Lunch