Departmental Seminar – Friday October 9

October 9 – Friday @ 2:00

“Dynamin, a Novel PharmacologicalTarget in Chronic Kidney Disease”

Sanja Sever, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Nephrology Division
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Refreshments at 1:45 p.m.

670 Albany Street – Lobby Level #107/108

Contact:

Program Director, Barbara Slack, PhD
Program Coordinator: Debra Kiley, 414-7914

Target Audience: Faculty, Students, Residents, Greater Boston Scientific Community (advertised in MIT’s Bulletin).

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to: 1) recognize the latest insights into the molecular mechanisms that underlie chronic kidney diseases (CKDs), such as dis-regulation of the actin cytoskeleton in podocytes as well as the role of regulatory GTPase dynamin in regulating actin cytoskeleton; 2) recall that dysregulation of the actin cytoskeleton in podocytes represents a common pathway in the pathogenesis of proteinuria across a spectrum of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) and 3) state that chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects hundreds of millions of peo­ple worldwide.