Upcoming KidGen Events
8th - 9th September 2018 - Sydney
KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium: Renal Genomics -Translating the Potential.
The 2018 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium will be held at the International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney in conjunction with the ANZSN Annual Scientific Meeting 2018.
Invited international speakers:
A/Prof Anna Greka, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Glomerular Kidney Disease and Novel Experimental Therapeutics
Prof Phil Beales, Great Ormond Street ICH, - Translational Genomics and Cilial Disorders
KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium: Renal Genomics -Translating the Potential.
The 2018 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium will be held at the International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney in conjunction with the ANZSN Annual Scientific Meeting 2018.
Invited international speakers:
A/Prof Anna Greka, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Glomerular Kidney Disease and Novel Experimental Therapeutics
Prof Phil Beales, Great Ormond Street ICH, - Translational Genomics and Cilial Disorders
Past KidGen Events
World kidney day celebration
3:00 - 5:00pm 8th March 2018
Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
Level 2, 48 Flemington Rd, Parkville, Vic
3:00 - 5:00pm 8th March 2018
Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
Level 2, 48 Flemington Rd, Parkville, Vic
We would like to invite you to celebrate World Kidney Day at the Royal Children’s Hospital on the 8th of March from 3-5pm. The theme for 2018 is Kidneys and Women’s Health so please join us to hear four amazing women speak about their perspective on kidney disease.
Grace and Karissa Gaskell will speak about their experience as patient and parent managing kidney disease.
Dr Kathy Paizis will speak about her role caring for women with kidney disease through before, during and after pregnancy.
Prof Melissa Little will discuss her hopes for the future and ask whether we can use stem cells to treat kidney disease.
Grace and Karissa Gaskell will speak about their experience as patient and parent managing kidney disease.
Dr Kathy Paizis will speak about her role caring for women with kidney disease through before, during and after pregnancy.
Prof Melissa Little will discuss her hopes for the future and ask whether we can use stem cells to treat kidney disease.
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7th-8th December 2017 Renal Genetics Symposium - RCH Melbourne
A report of the meeting has been published Human Genomics and is available on-line
Jayasinghe K, Quinlan C, Stark Z, Patel C, Sampson MG, Saleem M Mallett AJ and on behalf of the KidGen Collaborative Meeting Report of the 2017 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium, Human Genomics 2018 12:5 https://humgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40246-018-0137-7
A report of the meeting has been published Human Genomics and is available on-line
Jayasinghe K, Quinlan C, Stark Z, Patel C, Sampson MG, Saleem M Mallett AJ and on behalf of the KidGen Collaborative Meeting Report of the 2017 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium, Human Genomics 2018 12:5 https://humgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40246-018-0137-7
The Renal Genetics Symposium is aimed at nephrologists, geneticists, genetic counsellors, nurses, metabolic physicians, researchers and patient support groups interested in kidney development and disease, metabolic kidney disease and functional genomics.
Program and Speakers
The 2017 program is longer and more ambitious than last year with international speakers and sessions devoted to population genomics, podocytopathies, fabry’s disease, indigenous health, phenotyping and functional genomics. Confirmed speakers include Prof Moin Saleem, Dr Matthew Sampson, Prof Andrew Sinclair, Dr William Wong, Dr Madhivanan Sundaram, Dr Clara Gaff, Prof Kathy Nicholls, Ella Lynch, Prof Kathryn North, Dr Zornitza Stark, Prof Andrew Elefanty, Prof Melissa Little, Dr Duncan MacGregor, Dr Jenny Bracken and Dr Andrew Mallett.
International Guest Speakers
Professor Moin Saleem is head of Bristol Renal, a world-renowned research group focussed on glomerular disease which has generated the gold standard in vitro model system for examining the human glomerular podocyte. He will speak about the UK approach to rare and inherited kidney disease and genomic profiling in steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome.
Dr Matthew Sampson is a paediatric nephrologist and researcher at the University of Michigan. His research combines innovative genomic technologies, statistical genetics, computational genetics and bioinformatics to elucidate the role of genomic variation in renal disease. He will speak about using population genetics to interrogate monogenic nephrotic syndrome diagnosis and APOL1 risk alleles.
Debate
A feature session will be a debate on the pros and cons of panels, WES and WGS - guest speakers Dr Bruce Bennetts, Dr Seb Lunke, Dr Cas Simons, Dr Zornitza Stark, A/Prof Julie McGaughran and Dr Amali Mallawaarachchi
Full Program can be found here
Poster Competition
Abstracts are invited for the 2017 KidGen Poster award competition. Submissions open 1st June 2017 and close 31st October 2017. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded during the closing session of the Symposium.
Further details on poster abstracts can be found here.
Accommodation
For those travelling from interstate or overseas a limited number of rooms have been held in a variety of hotels and colleges close to the Symposium venue. Any of the special rates for Symposium delegates must be booked prior to 30th September.
Some Accommodation options can be found here
Childcare
A limited number of childcare places may be available for children under 5-years, if you are interested please email KidGen@mcri.edu.au with “Childcare Query” as the subject line, before the end of September. Expressing facilities are also available onsite.
Registration fees
Registration includes all Symposium sessions, catered morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch on both days, and the Drinks and Canapés Mixer event on Thursday evening.
Early bird registration fees available until 31st October 2017.
Concession registration available to all allied health professionals, PhD or other university enrolled students, early career researchers (less than 5 years post PhD.
KidGen member registration available to all KidGen members.
Developing Countries registration click here for list of developing countries according to HINARI
Industry Registration
Full Registration: $400, Early bird $300
Concession Registration: $200, Early bird $150
KidGen Member Registration: $200, Early bird $150
Developing Countries Registration $0 (email organizers directly to register KidGen@mcri.edu.au.)
Industry Registration $600 (email organizers directly to register KidGen@mcri.edu.au)
To register follow this link https://www.trybooking.com/281941
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If you are paying from an MCRI or VCGS cost centre, please use the booking code "internal" in Trybooking and arrange an internal transfer to the KidGen Symposium cost centre. Send an email to KidGen@mcri.edu.au to confirm transfer.
You may also pay on invoice rather than using an online credit card. To do this enter the booking code "invoice17" in Trybooking and email kidgen@mcri.edu.au to request an invoice.
For general enquiries please contact Dr Cathy Quinlan or Louise Wardrop at KidGen@mcri.edu.au
Twitter: meeting # is #kidgen2017
Sponsors
The KidGen Collaborative would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for their generous support of this Symposium. Genome One, Reata Pharmaceutical, Sanofi Genzyme and Shire Australia.
Program and Speakers
The 2017 program is longer and more ambitious than last year with international speakers and sessions devoted to population genomics, podocytopathies, fabry’s disease, indigenous health, phenotyping and functional genomics. Confirmed speakers include Prof Moin Saleem, Dr Matthew Sampson, Prof Andrew Sinclair, Dr William Wong, Dr Madhivanan Sundaram, Dr Clara Gaff, Prof Kathy Nicholls, Ella Lynch, Prof Kathryn North, Dr Zornitza Stark, Prof Andrew Elefanty, Prof Melissa Little, Dr Duncan MacGregor, Dr Jenny Bracken and Dr Andrew Mallett.
International Guest Speakers
Professor Moin Saleem is head of Bristol Renal, a world-renowned research group focussed on glomerular disease which has generated the gold standard in vitro model system for examining the human glomerular podocyte. He will speak about the UK approach to rare and inherited kidney disease and genomic profiling in steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome.
Dr Matthew Sampson is a paediatric nephrologist and researcher at the University of Michigan. His research combines innovative genomic technologies, statistical genetics, computational genetics and bioinformatics to elucidate the role of genomic variation in renal disease. He will speak about using population genetics to interrogate monogenic nephrotic syndrome diagnosis and APOL1 risk alleles.
Debate
A feature session will be a debate on the pros and cons of panels, WES and WGS - guest speakers Dr Bruce Bennetts, Dr Seb Lunke, Dr Cas Simons, Dr Zornitza Stark, A/Prof Julie McGaughran and Dr Amali Mallawaarachchi
Full Program can be found here
Poster Competition
Abstracts are invited for the 2017 KidGen Poster award competition. Submissions open 1st June 2017 and close 31st October 2017. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded during the closing session of the Symposium.
Further details on poster abstracts can be found here.
Accommodation
For those travelling from interstate or overseas a limited number of rooms have been held in a variety of hotels and colleges close to the Symposium venue. Any of the special rates for Symposium delegates must be booked prior to 30th September.
Some Accommodation options can be found here
Childcare
A limited number of childcare places may be available for children under 5-years, if you are interested please email KidGen@mcri.edu.au with “Childcare Query” as the subject line, before the end of September. Expressing facilities are also available onsite.
Registration fees
Registration includes all Symposium sessions, catered morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch on both days, and the Drinks and Canapés Mixer event on Thursday evening.
Early bird registration fees available until 31st October 2017.
Concession registration available to all allied health professionals, PhD or other university enrolled students, early career researchers (less than 5 years post PhD.
KidGen member registration available to all KidGen members.
Developing Countries registration click here for list of developing countries according to HINARI
Industry Registration
Full Registration: $400, Early bird $300
Concession Registration: $200, Early bird $150
KidGen Member Registration: $200, Early bird $150
Developing Countries Registration $0 (email organizers directly to register KidGen@mcri.edu.au.)
Industry Registration $600 (email organizers directly to register KidGen@mcri.edu.au)
To register follow this link https://www.trybooking.com/281941
.
If you are paying from an MCRI or VCGS cost centre, please use the booking code "internal" in Trybooking and arrange an internal transfer to the KidGen Symposium cost centre. Send an email to KidGen@mcri.edu.au to confirm transfer.
You may also pay on invoice rather than using an online credit card. To do this enter the booking code "invoice17" in Trybooking and email kidgen@mcri.edu.au to request an invoice.
For general enquiries please contact Dr Cathy Quinlan or Louise Wardrop at KidGen@mcri.edu.au
Twitter: meeting # is #kidgen2017
Sponsors
The KidGen Collaborative would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for their generous support of this Symposium. Genome One, Reata Pharmaceutical, Sanofi Genzyme and Shire Australia.
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KidGen - Meet the Scientists EveningElla Latham Auditorium
Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne 6:00pm -8:00pm 21st September 2017 The first KidGen patient engagement event, Meet the Scientists, was held on the 21st September. Recording of event below. The live event was a huge success as almost 60 people turned out to hear our scientists discuss their work and quiz them about future priorities.
Dr Cathy Quinlan opened the meeting with an overview of Renal Genetics in Victoria. The first Victorian multidisciplinary renal genetics service opened in 2016 with the support of the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. She described their team approach to diagnosis and explained how, along with Dr Zornitza Stark, Dr Sue White and Ms Ella Wlikins, they have a 55% clinical diagnostic rate which increases to 75 % when research testing is included. With the support of the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and the Australian Genomics Health Alliance this clinical model has now been rolled out across Victoria to the Austin, Monash Medical Centre and The Royal Melbourne. Patients recruited via these clinics have access to genetic testing as well as enrolment in gene discovery research. Prof Melissa Little gave an enthralling overview of the use of induced pluripotent stem cells in renal disease and how she hopes these could be used for drug screening and to further our understanding of kidney development. She then outlined her ground-breaking research which has resulted in the development of a “Kidney in a Dish” along with her hopes for the future. She was followed by Dr Lorna Hale whose work has focussed on nephrotic syndrome and the podocyte. For many patients it was the first time they had seen ultrastructural images of the glomerulus as Dr Hale explained how problems can occur leading to protein loss in the urine. She expanded on Prof Little’s talk to demonstrate how she is using mini-kidneys to model kidney disease in the lab and explained how vital patient’s participation is to her work. The evening culminated in an enlightening presentation by Dr Sara Howden, joint director of the MCRI Gene Editing core facility. She took the audience through the science of gene editing and how she developed a protocol to derive gene-edited pluripotent stem cells from human blood cells. These genetically modified cells are then used to model kidney disease in the laboratory. Despite the difficult and technical nature of their work all the scientists made their subject comprehensible to a lay audience and were available to answer questions for two hours after the event. The KidGen team hopes to run similar patient engagement events in the future and would welcome feedback to inform the development of these events. Follow us on twitter @KidGenAustralia or @KidneyCathy Links to other meetings
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