Summit
Monday, June 22, 2026
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Registration Opens

Hotel Lobby

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Welcome Reception & Networking Event

West Shore Pavilion

5:45 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Welcome Remarks

West Shore Pavilion

Speakers: Michelle L Gumz, PhD,  Clintoria R Williams, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Keynote: Sex Differences in Kidney Function, Hypertension and Inflammation: How Menopause Changes Everything!

West Shore Pavilion

Speaker: Heddwen L Brooks, PhD

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Group Dinner

West Shore Pavilion

8:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Lightning Talks with Dessert

West Shore Pavilion

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CDT
Continental Breakfast

Waterfront Restaurant

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
Session 1: Lymphatics in Kidney Injury and Disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Ina M Schiessl,  Guiomar N Gomes

8:35 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
Lymphangiogenesis in AKI and CKD

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Anupam Agarwal, MD

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Kidney Lymphatics and the Immune Response to Injury

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Joseph M Rutkowski, PhD

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM CDT
Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis of Tertiary Lymphoid Organs in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Ahmad Mohammad, BS,  Michael E Seifert, MD, MSCI,  Miguel Melendez-Ferro, PhD

9:40 AM – 9:50 AM CDT
Renal vascular remodeling in diabetic nephropathy

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Anders M Kristensen,  Francesco De Luca,  Anna Faivre,  Isabela Binotti de Araujo,  Hao Yuan,  Hanne Kidmose,  Duncan Sutherland,  Lin Lin,  Ina M Schiessl

9:50 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
Nephron-specific Pannexin-1 knockout alters sodium handling in the kidney.

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Veniamin Ivanov, PhD,  Pablo A Ortiz, PhD,  Tengis S Pavlov, PhD

10:00 AM – 10:25 AM CDT
A.M. Break

Harbor Ballroom 4

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Session 2: Immunophysiology

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Yogesh Scindia, PhD,  Erika I Boesen, PhD, FAHA

10:35 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
Immune Pathways in Renal Function: Insights into Health and Disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Denise Cornelius, PhD

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Renal-myeloid Crosstalk in Hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Luis F Michea, MD, PhD

11:30 AM – 11:40 AM CDT
IL-17 Signaling in Juxtaglomerular Cells as a Driver of Kidney Damage in Diabetes.

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Mariela Mendez,  Maria Cecilia Ortiz-Capisano, MD,  Tang-Dong Liao, MD,  Ze Meng, BS

11:40 AM – 11:50 AM CDT
Dietary modulation of CD4+ T cell-mediated renal dysfunction and injury during pregnancy

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: John Henry H Dasinger, PhD,  Evan W Murders, MS,  Fatima Nguyen, BS,  Om Patel, BS,  William C Rittmeyer, BS,  Marvin Tchangwa, BS

11:50 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
The role of casts in proximal tubule injury and atrophy

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Anna Faivre,  Anders M Kristensen,  Xiang Zheng,  Qi Wu,  Peder Berg,  Camilla Tanderup Sjøgaard1,  Hanne Kidmose,  Robert A Fenton,  Ina M Schiessl

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT
Networking Lunch

Harbor Ballroom 4

1:00 PM – 4:15 PM CDT
Free Time
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Career Development: Speak up for Science: Tools and Strategies for Effective Advocacy

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Carmen De Miguel, PhD, MS, FAHA,  Clintoria R Williams, PhD

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Group Photo

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Session 3: Metabolic Matters: Powering the Kidney in Health and Injury

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Robert S Hoover, MD, FASN, FAHA,  Amanda Marks-Hultstrom, PhD

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
Fatty Acid Oxidation in Injured Kidney Tubules: More than the Mitochondria!

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Leslie Gewin, MD

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM CDT
Off the Rails: Metabolism-Transport Uncoupling in the Proximal Tubule

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Alison J Kriegel, PhD

5:30 PM – 5:40 PM CDT
Comparative analysis of renal morphology in male and female Wistar rats submitted to a resistance exercise protocol

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Guiomar N Gomes,  Emily R Cordeiro,  Debora C K Lichtenecker,  Nathalia B Silva,  Leticia M Monteiro,  Rogerio Argeri,  Isadora G Almeida,  Isabela B M Silveira

5:40 PM – 5:50 PM CDT
Proximal Tubule-Specific Overexpression of PPAR Alpha Attenuates Tubule Damage in the Male Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats on a High Salt Diet

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Zachary Tacner,  Lauren Yunker, PhD,  Alison J Kriegel, PhD

5:50 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Histamine uptake via organic cation transporters induces intracellular calcium release in podocytes of freshly isolated glomeruli

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Corey Andrews, MS,  Oleg Palygin, MSc, PhD,  Daria V Ilatovskaya, MS, PhD, FAHA,  Alena Cherezova, MS,  Denisha R Spires, PhD,  Charlee Hutt,  Mykhailo Fedoriuk, PhD,  Mariia Stefanenko, MS,  Ray Wade,  Marharyta Semenikhina, MSc, PhD,  David L Mattson, PhD

5:59 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Tuesday Poster Session

Harbor Ballroom 1

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Defining the Cytoskeletal Interactome of the Proximal Tubule: A Network Analysis of Payload-Specific ADC Nephrotoxicity

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Guido Capriles, MD,  Amit Rajput, MD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Magnetic resonance imaging in renal studies

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speaker: Per Eckerbom

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
PAR1 Inhibition with Vorapaxar Reduces Renal Macrophage Infiltration and Remodels Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediator Profiles in Type 2 Diabetic Nephropathy

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Ruslan Bohovyk, PhD,  Olha Kravtsova, PhD,  Melissa Lowe, BS,  Vladislav Levchenko, BS,  Gunjan Upadhyay,  Ganesh V Halade, PhD,  Oleg Palygin, MSc, PhD,  Alexander Staruschenko, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Cross-Species Transcriptomic Insights into Molecular Pathways Linking AKI-to-CKD Progression with Neuropsychiatric Complications

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Francesca Di Sole, PhD,  Mark Nemcek,  Parik G Suda,  Lane C Mulder,  Victor Babich, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Proximal Tubular FoxO3 Deletion Protects Against Acute Kidney Injury but Exacerbates Response to Chronic Injury

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speaker: Shivani Sharma

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Therapeutic Targeting of the ANGPT2/TIE2 Signaling Axis Improves Diabetic Nephropathy in the BTBR Ob/Ob Mouse

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Amanda Marks-Hultstrom, PhD,  Marie Jeansson, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Pretreatment of DRD4 agonist reduces apoptosis, oxidative stress and acute kidney injury in the mice with cisplatin treatment

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Dechao Yan, MS,  Xiaoyan Wang, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Exercise Speeds Recovery from Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Sophia Sears, PhD,  Nathan O'Leary, BA

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Whole Kidney Lysate Masks Sex-Specific Immune Signatures Revealed by Renal Endothelial RNA-Seq in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Lada Palygina,  Helen M Butler, PhD,  Marice K McCrorey,  Ryan S Lacey, BS,  Marie E Zehntner, BA,  Marharyta Semenikhina, MSc, PhD,  Wayne Fitzgibbon, PhD,  Oleg Palygin, MSc, PhD,  Justin P Van Beusecum, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Toll Like Receptor 4 in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension and Renal End-Organ Damage

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: David L Mattson, PhD,  Emily C Burns-Ray, PhD,  Sadaf Hasan, PhD,  Mary N Cherian-Shaw, PhD,  Samuel D Walton, PhD,  Justine M Abais-Battad, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Advancing kidney disease research through access to human transplant tissues and functional translational cores.

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Kathryn E Glorioso,  Oleg Palygin, MSc, PhD,  Justin P Van Beusecum, PhD,  Marharyta Semenikhina, MSc, PhD,  Mariia Stefanenko, MS,  Marice K McCrorey,  Helen M Butler, PhD,  Mykhailo Fedoriuk, PhD,  Kannan Samy, MD,  Daria V Ilatovskaya, MS, PhD, FAHA,  Joshua H Lipschutz, MD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
CD8+ T cells mediate kidney fibrosis in diet induced obesity

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Claudia Edell, PhD,  Annye Bennett,  Anna Sorace, PhD,  Jennifer S Pollock, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
CD19-Targeted Bispecific T-Cell Engager Achieves Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell-Like B-Cell Depletion and Reverses Established Lupus Nephritis

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Heidi A Creed, PhD,  Sivasankaran M Ponnan, PhD,  Erica B Peres Verratti, BS,  Misael A Licea Gomez, BS,  Sebastien TE Lewis, BS,  Neelakshi Mungra, PhD,  Danny A Kim, BS,  Jason P Price, PhD,  Shaun W Jackson, MD, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
The Choice of Counterion Influences Renal Side-Effects of Lithium-Based Therapies

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Sarah Stanley, BS, BE,  Mykola Mamenko, MS, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Calprotectin is required for premenopausal protection from angiotensin II-induced hypertension and kidney dysfunction

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Katherine M Mantilla, BS,  Vishwadeep Shelke, MPharm, PhD,  Madison M Altom, BS,  Kayla M Nist, MS, PhD,  Erica M Delaune, BS,  Trinity Jones,  Robert S Hoover, MD, FASN, FAHA,  Luis F Michea, MD, PhD,  Heddwen L Brooks, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Sex-dependent role of calprotection in renal myeloid cell infiltration during ANG II hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Vishwadeep Shelke, MPharm, PhD,  Erica M Delaune, BS,  Katherine M Mantilla, BS,  Trinity Jones,  Kayla M Nist, MS, PhD,  Robert S Hoover, MD, FASN, FAHA,  Luis F Michea, MD, PhD,  Heddwen L Brooks, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Using Graphical Analysis to Understand Kidney Function

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speaker: Thomas Stiles

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Tight junction proteins define the functional compartments of a novel intercellular channel involved in paracellular and transcellular ion transport within murine thick ascending limb.

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Brook Busselman, PhD,  Vedant Thakkar, BS,  Indra Chandrasekar

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Kidney abnormalities resulting from Notch deficient nephrogenesis are rescued with inactivation of Ift88

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Ayesha Anwer,  Matthew McKillop, MS,  Jennifer DeRiso, MS,  Jyotirmoyee Das,  Kameswaran Surendran

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Group Dinner

Harbor Lawn

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CDT
Continental Breakfast

Waterfront Restaurant

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
Session 4: Omics Advances in Renal Physiology

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Pablo A Ortiz, PhD,  Waleed Rahmani, MD, PhD

8:35 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
Single-cell and Spatial Omics in Kidney Disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Parker Wilson, MD, PhD

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Empowering Your Research Program Through the Integration of Omics

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Jonathan W Nelson, PhD

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM CDT
High salt blunts time-of-day transcriptomic changes, affecting metabolic adaptations in salt-sensitive hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Lashodya V Dissanayake, MD, PhD,  Adrian Zietara, PhD,  Ratnakar Tiwari, PhD,  Olha Kravtsova, PhD,  Michelle L Gumz, PhD,  Alexander Staruschenko, PhD

9:40 AM – 9:50 AM CDT
Defining the Interactome of the soluble (pro)renin receptor using TurboID proximity labeling

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Mohammad O Sako, MD, PhD,  Augustine Takyi, MS,  Lukas Kennett,  Paul A Stewart, PhD,  Nirupama Ramkumar, MD, MPH

9:50 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
High-resolution spatiotemporal mapping of the renal myeloid niche during kidney repair and fibrosis

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Waleed Rahmani, MD, PhD,  Lauren Bell,  Hema Sundaramoorthi, PhD,  Abdulvasey Mohammed,  Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD

10:00 AM – 10:25 AM CDT
A.M. Break

Harbor Ballroom 4

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Session 5: Weathering the Storm: Renal Responses to Stress and Injury

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Kelly Hyndman, PhD,  Stephanie Franzen, PhD

10:35 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
The Role of Tubuloglomerular Feedback in AKI to CKD Transition

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Ruisheng Liu

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Transdermal GFR Assessment at the Point of Care

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Stuart L Goldstein, MD

11:30 AM – 11:40 AM CDT
A murine model of recurrent heat stress that causes kidney injury

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Hung Nguyen, MS,  Cassidy Rehage, BS,  Anna Montgomery, BS,  Nicholas Harris, BS,  Kelly Hyndman, PhD

11:40 AM – 11:50 AM CDT
Sex differences in proximal tubule protein handling and adaptive responses after partial ischemia reperfusion injury in mice

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Katherine E Shipman, PhD,  Anders M Kristensen,  Elynna B Youm, BA,  Seth B Brubaker,  Aurelie Edwards, PhD,  Ina M Schiessl,  Ora A Weisz, PhD

11:50 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
A way to prevent sepsis-AKI? Extracorporeal ozone acutely reduces organ injury in experimental gram-negative sepsis

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Stephanie Franzén, PhD,  Carley Fowler,  Bahareh Razmand,  Paul Skorup, MD, PhD,  Johan Sjöholm,  Per-Ola Wictor,  Mattias Günther, MD, PhD,  Miklos Lipcsey, MD, PhD

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT
Networking Lunch

Harbor Ballroom 4

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Free Time
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Career Development (optional)

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Session 6: The Kidney as a Sensor

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Justine M Abais-Battad, PhD,  Kayla M Nist, MS, PhD

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
Illuminating The Renal Response to pH Imbalances with Single-Cell Resolution

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Nathan Zaidman

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM CDT
From Bowman's Space to the Bedside: Intrarenal Pressure Dynamics and the Physiologic Basis of the JuxtaFlow Renal Assist Device

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Alencia Washington, PhD

5:30 PM – 5:40 PM CDT
Sex-specific regulation of renal ion channels in a novel rat model of hyperkalemia with chronic kidney disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Sati Alexander, BS,  Torrie Depeyster, BS, MS,  Daria V Ilatovskaya, MS, PhD, FAHA,  Mykola Mamenko, MS, PhD,  Oleg Palygin, MSc, PhD

5:40 PM – 5:50 PM CDT
Cardiovascular and Renal Effects of Renal Denervation in Hypertensive Rats with CKD

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Erika Nishi,  Amanda Veiga, PhD,  Ruy C Campos,  Cássia Bergamaschi

5:50 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Two-photon imaging of the Cl sensor SuperClomeleon can be used to measure NCC-mediated Cl entry and intracellular chloride (Cli) in distal convoluted tubules (DCT) of live mice

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Pablo A Ortiz, PhD,  Andrew Wu

5:59 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Wednesday Poster Session

Harbor Ballroom 1

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Pannexin 1 and pannexin 3 control renin-secreting cell phenotype

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Madison D Williams, MS, PhD,  Brooke L O'Donnell, PhD,  Taylor J Buckley,  Nirelle K Sitchoa,  Brant E Isakson, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Ovarian Hormones Contribute to Cellular Proliferation Following 5/6 Nephrectomy in microRNA-146b-/- Female Sprague Dawley Rats

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Jenny Nguyen, BS,  Alison J Kriegel, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Notch signaling and mTOR complex 1 play opposing roles in regulation of kidney collecting duct cell type plasticity.

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Alicia Simmons, BS,  Malini Mukherjee,  Ayesha Anwer,  Oduduabasi Isaiah,  Michael Kareta,  Brook Busselman, PhD,  Indra Chandrasekar,  Kameswaran Surendran

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Distal convoluted tubule proliferative cell state transition signal transduction

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Paul A Welling, MD,  Hyun Jun Jung, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Sex-specific effects of early life stress on cardiovascular rhythmicity and vulnerability to circadian stress

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Hiruni M Aponso, BS,  Maria A Venegas, PhD,  Mary Latimer, PhD,  Kim Johnson, PhD,  David M Pollock, PhD, FAHA

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Elucidating a potential role for OLFR-558 in maternal outcomes

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Brian List, BS,  Jennifer Pluznick, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
GPER1 is a modulator of OR51E1 and OR51E2 signaling

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Parishmita Sarma, PhD,  Jennifer Pluznick, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Sex Differences in the Kidney Circadian Transcriptome

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Michelle L Gumz, PhD,  Sophia A Eikenberry, BS,  Alexandria Juffre, BS, MS,  Bryanna Broderick,  G Ryan Crislip, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Sex-specific regulation of the renal epithelial sodium channel and aquaporin-2 in Dahl Salt-Sensitive PERIOD-1 knockout rats

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Alexandria Juffre, BS, MS,  Indra Chandrasekar,  Michelle L Gumz, PhD,  Sophia A Eikenberry, BS,  Brook Busselman, PhD,  Hannah Costello, PhD,  Adrian Zietara, PhD,  Lashodya V Dissanayake, MD, PhD,  Kit-Yan Cheng, BS,  Alexander Staruschenko, PhD,  Lauren G Douma, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Investigating Olfactory Receptor 558 (Olfr558) mediated sex differences in blood pressure regulation and aging

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Rachel Muir, PhD,  Jiaojiao Xu, PhD,  Alexandra Medcalf, BS,  Lakshmi Santhanam, PhD,  Jennifer Pluznick, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Investigating Olfr558 and Olfr78 in the Kidney during Early Postnatal Development

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speaker: Rebeca N Rodriguez, BS

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
A Tri-Omic Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies a Glomerular-Specific Epigenetic Vulnerability in Hydralazine-Induced Vasculitis

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Guido Capriles, MD,  Mohannad Abdeltawwab, MD,  Amit Rajput, MD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Spatial transcriptomic of mice kidneys indicates tonicity and NFAT5 mediated gene expression pattern

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Bayram Edemir,  Katrin Nerger,  Kristina Engel

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
A Comparison of the Cardiorenal Effects of the GLP1 Receptor Agonists Semaglutide and Retatrutide in Adolescent Male Mice

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Steven Didik, MS,  Bong Sook Jhun, PhD,  Thomas E Sharp III, PhD,  Ganesh V Halade, PhD,  Hariom Yadav, PhD,  Thanh Trung Van, MS,  Sidharth P S Mishra, PhD,  Shalini Jain, PhD,  Alexander Staruschenko, PhD,  Lashodya V Dissanayake, MD, PhD,  Vladislav Levchenko, BS,  Olha Kravtsova, PhD,  Ruslan Bohovyk, PhD,  Ratnakar Tiwari, PhD,  Melissa Lowe, BS,  Abigail Shapiro, BS,  Jin O-Uchi, MD, PhD

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Group Dinner

Harbor Lawn

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CDT
Continental Breakfast

Waterfront Restaurant

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
Session 7: Emerging Therapeutics for Acute and Chronic Kidney Diseases

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Alexander Staruschenko, PhD

8:35 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
TIE2 Activation by Antibody-clustered Endogenous angiopoietin-2 Prevents Capillary Loss and Fibrosis in Kidney Disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Marie Jeansson, PhD

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Targeting KLF15-Glucocorticoid Signaling in Proteinuric Kidney Disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Sandeep Mallipattu, MD

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM CDT
Time-Restricted Feeding Increased Gluconeogenesis and Altered Metabolic Pathway Transcripts in the Renal Cortex of High-Salt Fed Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Lauren Yunker, PhD,  Alison J Kriegel, PhD

9:40 AM – 9:50 AM CDT
Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Renal Cortical Sphingolipid Dysregulation as a Candidate Mechanism of Kidney Injury in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Kosuke Yamaka, MD, PhD,  Satoshi Shimada, MD, PhD,  Ibrahim Y Vazirabad, MS,  Chun Yang, PhD,  Brian R Hoffmann, PhD,  Timothy Stodola, PhD,  Ranjan K Dash, PhD,  Allen W Cowley, Jr, PhD

9:50 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
Bariatric Surgery Acutely Reduces Renal Hyperperfusion via Renal Sympathetic Mechanisms in Obesity, Independentof Blood Pressure Changes

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Sumit Monu, DVM, PhD

10:00 AM – 10:25 AM CDT
A.M. Break

Harbor Ballroom 4

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Session 8: Cross-Organ Conversations in Kidney Physiology and Pathophysiology

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Jan Williams, PhD,  Babatunde Anidu, BS

10:35 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
ET-1 Signaling in Immune Cells: Implications for Diabetic Kidney Disease

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Carmen De Miguel, PhD, MS, FAHA

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Advances in Kidney Proteomics - Spatial Meets Single Cell

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Robert A Fenton

11:30 AM – 11:40 AM CDT
Inhibition of Gut-Selective NHE3 Attenuates Hypertension and Renal Damage in Dahl SS Rats

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Samuel D Walton, PhD,  Jeffrey N Lin,  Maya L McFadden, BS,  Ayomikun Akin-David, BS,  Lily N Hartenburg,  Mary N Cherian-Shaw, PhD,  Justine M Abais-Battad, PhD

11:40 AM – 11:50 AM CDT
Bmal1 positively regulates renal endothelin-1 in female rats

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Maria A Venegas, PhD,  David M Pollock, PhD, FAHA

11:50 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Sex-specific regulation of the endothelin-1 pathway in Dahl Salt-Sensitive PERIOD-1 knockout rats

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Lauren G Douma, PhD,  Alexandria Juffre, BS, MS,  Sophia A Eikenberry, BS,  Adrian Zietara, PhD,  Lashodya V Dissanayake, MD, PhD,  Hannah Costello, PhD,  Alexander Staruschenko, PhD,  Michelle L Gumz, PhD

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT
Networking Lunch

Harbor Ballroom 4

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Free Time
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
Career Development: "Hands-on Coding!” with Jonathan Nelson

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Jonathan W Nelson, PhD

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Session 9: Next Generation

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Janos Peti-Peterdi, MD, PhD,  Clintoria R Williams, PhD

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
The Molecular and Physiologic Effects of Calcineurin Inhibitors on WNK Body Biomolecular Condensates

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Cary Boyd-Shiwarski, MD, PhD

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM CDT
Lightsheet Microscopy and TubuleMAP for Mapping Whole Intact Nephrons in the Kidney

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speaker: Chetan Poudel, PhD

5:30 PM – 5:40 PM CDT
Afferent Renal Denervation Attenuates Sodium Appetite Following Acute Sodium and Volume Depletion

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Babatunde Anidu, BS,  Amanda Veiga, PhD,  Rawan Almutlaq, MS,  Mariana Lauar, PhD,  Alex Dayton, MD, PhD,  Louise Evans, PhD

5:40 PM – 5:50 PM CDT
Sall3: a potential master regulator of distal convoluted tubule cell identity via epigenetic modeling

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Lauryn Torres-Hernandez, BS,  Boyoung Kim,  Celio Damacena de Angelis, PhD,  Eric Delpire, PhD,  Hyun Jun Jung, PhD,  Paul A Welling, MD

5:50 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
Loss of calprotectin removes female protection from angiotensin II hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and vascular contractility but not renal fibrosis

Harbor Ballroom 2 & 3

Speakers: Kayla M Nist, MS, PhD,  Erica M Delaune, BS,  Katherine M Mantilla, BS,  Sarah H Lindsey, PhD,  Luis F Michea, MD, PhD,  Heddwen L Brooks, PhD

5:59 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Thursday Poster Session

Harbor Ballroom 1

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Tubule-specific effects of low potassium intake

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Adrienne M Assmus, PhD,  Qi Wu,  Louise Odgaard,  Xiang Zheng,  Robert A Fenton

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Chronic Liver Disease: a Risk Factor for Fungal Pyelonephritis

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Tanmay Arekar, MS,  Divya Katikaneni, MS,  Thrisha Acharya, BS,  Gabriella Garcia,  Sofia Hernalsteen,  Katherine L Horst,  Teresa O'Meara, PhD,  Michail S Lionakis, MD, ScD,  Yogesh Scindia, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Influence of Sodium Bicarbonate on the Exercise Pressor Reflex in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Soolim Jeong, PhD,  Alina Niu,  Jeann L Sabino-Carvalho, PhD,  Jeanie Park, MD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Time-restricted feeding attenuates pro-inflammatory lipid mediators in diet-induced obese mice

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Emma Sayeski, BS,  Claudia Edell, PhD,  Jason L Hellmann, PhD,  Jennifer S Pollock, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
A novel neuronally differentiated endothelial cell subtype regulates organ blood flow in the kidney and brain

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Georgina Gyarmati, MD, PhD, MPH,  Janos Peti-Peterdi, MD, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Phenotypic Variation in Early-Stage Embryos of the Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Lindsey J Daniel, PhD ABD,  Dr. Warren W Burggren, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Reprogramming the Renal Sodium Set Point: A Zinc–ENaC Axis in Hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Kelia McMichael, BS,  Tara Wenegieme, BS,  Fahron Williams, BS,  Robert S Hoover, MD, FASN, FAHA,  Clintoria R Williams, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Sex-specific kinetics of immune cell infiltration during angiotensin II–induced hypertension

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Erica M Delaune, BS,  Kayla M Nist, MS, PhD,  Trinity Jones,  Katherine M Mantilla, BS,  Vishwadeep Shelke, MPharm, PhD,  John Henry H Dasinger, PhD,  Luis F Michea, MD, PhD,  Heddwen L Brooks, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Role of the Novel Kinase Traf2 and NCK Interacting Kinase (TNIK) in Renal NaCl Handling Through Regulation of the Na+/K+/2Cl- Cotransporter NKCC2

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Jessica Granados PIneda,  Paulo S. Caceres,  Mariela Mendez,  Pablo A Ortiz, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Pannexin 1 intracellular loop motif Y198 influences renal hemodynamics

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Madison D Williams, MS, PhD,  Brooke L O'Donnell, PhD,  Vikram Sabapathy, PhD,  Nirelle K Sitchoa,  Taylor J Buckley,  Santosh Karnewar, PhD,  Rahul Sharma, PhD,  Jonathan R Lindner, MD,  Brant E Isakson, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Circulating myeloid cells restrain salt-sensitive hypertension by preserving endothelial function and renal sodium handling

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Josselin Nespoux, PhD,  Alicja Czopek, PhD,  Kevin Stewart, BSc (Hons),  Matthew A Bailey, PhD,  Neeraj Dhaun, MD, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Endothelin Receptor Antagonism Alleviates Cardiorenal Dysfunction in a Murine Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Marice K McCrorey,  Helen M Butler, PhD,  Adviye Ergul, MD, PhD,  Justin P Van Beusecum, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Magnitude and variability of renal vascular conductance responses to exercise and cold in healthy Black adults

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Mohamed H Ibrahim, BS,  Alison J McLure, BS,  Mary J Jackson, RN, MS,  Brittany Harrison, BS, RDCS, RVT, RDMS, CIIP,  Sarah Brockley, BS,  Elizabeth Jones, MD, MPH, MBA,  A Parker Ruhl, MD, MHS, ATSF,  Hans Ackerman, MD, DPhil

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Immunometabolic Pathways in Chronic Kidney Disease Identified by Transcriptomic Analysis of an Adenine Diet–Unilateral Nephrectomy Rat Model

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Francesca Di Sole, PhD,  Vanja Duric, PhD,  Victor Babich, PhD,  Susan D'Onofrio,  Erica N. Hansen,  Mark Nemcek,  Advay Prasad,  Ajay P Singh,  Parik G Suda,  Rachel Bane,  Sydney Ballweber

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Postmenopausal Females Exhibit Limited Renal Compensation During Seasonal Environmental Heat Stress: A Pilot Study

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Christin Domeier, MSc,  Kyle A Smith, PhD,  Joseph C Watso, PhD,  Jonathan W Hoch, BS,  Mary E Peck,  Ella C Ashley,  Lily O Voelkel,  Joseph D Vondrasek, MSc,  Thomas G Bissen, MSc,  Andrea J Lobene, PhD, RDN, LDN,  Austin T Robinson, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Elucidating mechanisms behind the microbial regulation of aldosterone

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Sunyoung Jeong, BS,  Jennifer Pluznick, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Tubular Inhibition of ACOX1 Worsens Injury in Chronic Kidney Disease

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Kevin Hurtado, PhD,  Dipranjan Laha, PhD,  Irfan Lodhi, PhD,  Leslie Gewin, MD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Integrated Extracellular Flux Analysis Reveals Segment-Specific Substrate-induced Energetic Programs in Renal Tubules

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Chun Yang, PhD,  Satoshi Shimada, MD, PhD,  Theresa Kurth,  Ranjan K Dash, PhD,  Allen W Cowley, Jr, PhD

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Refining the defining of acute kidney injury: Physiological insights from clinical cohorts

Harbor Ballroom 1

Speakers: Michael Marks-Hultström, MD, PhD, FAPS,  Anders Larsson, MD, PhD,  Mikael Eriksson, MD, PhD,  Miklos Lipcsey, MD, PhD,  Rasmus Mossberg, MD,  Johanna Helmersson-Karlqvist, PhD,  Liisa Byberg, PhD,  Johan Arnlöv, PhD,  Max Bell, MD, PhD,  Johan Mårtensson, MD, PhD,  Alain Dardashti, MD, PhD,  Maria Eriksson Svensson, MD, PhD

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Group Dinner, Awards & Closing Remarks

Harbor Lawn