Program Outline SCHEDULE DRAFT 30 May: 3:00 pm Registration 5:30 pm Welcome 6:30 pm Plenary Lecture: Genetic risk of diabetes and chronic kidney disease (Jose Florez, Harvard/MIT, US) 7:20 – 9:00 pm Reception (Foyer of the Ballroom and Verger A) 9:00 – 10:00 pm Organizing/International Committee Meeting 31 May: 7:30 – 8 am Coffee & Light Snacks 8:00 am Plenary Lecture: “iPSs in kidney and podocyte development” (Ryuchi Nishinakamura, Japan) 8:30 – 10:10 am Session 1: Podocyte origin in development and disease 10:10 – 10:30 am Coffee Break 10:30 – 12:10 pm Session 2: Poster blitz and trainee engagement (introduction by the KFOC Director) 12:10 – 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 – 2:00 pm Poster Session I 2:00 – 3:40 pm Session 3: Podocyte Architecture: Focus on cytoskeleton, SD, and their regulation in health and disease 3:40 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break 4:00 – 5:40 pm Session 4: Podocytes and friends 7:30 pm Banquet for all participants (Ballroom, Marriott) 1 June 7:30 – 8 am Coffee & Light Snacks 8:00 am Plenary lecture: Drug discovery for kidney disease (TBA) 8:30 – 10:10 am Session 5: Immune etiology of nephrotic syndrome 10:10 – 10:30 am Coffee Break 10:30 – 12:10 pm Session 6: Advances in therapeutics for glomerular nephropathies 12:10 – 1:30 pm Lunch 12:30 – 2:00 pm Poster session II 1:00 – 1:45 pm Round table discussion with the editors 2:00 – 3:40 pm Session 7: Complement disease in glomerulus 3:40 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break 4:00 – 6:00 pm Session 8: Metabolic origin of glomerular disease Distribution of the Feedback questionnaire 8:00 pm Speakers’ Dinner 2 June 8:00 – 8:30 am Coffee & Light Snacks 8:30 – 10:10 am Session 9: Genetics of glomerular disease 10:10 – 10:30 am Coffee Break and Feedback Questionnaire Collection 10:30 – 12:10 pm Session 10: Model systems to study podocytes 12:10 – 12:30 pm Concluding remarks including feedback summary