02/03/2026

Dr. Ohla Kravtsova, Department of Molecular Pharmacology 

Research article: Khan et al. Mitochondrial organization in the developing proximal tubule is controlled by LRRK2. Nat Commun16, 9611 (2025).

03/03/2026

Abeda Jamadar, PhD, Senior Research Associate at the Kidney Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center

Research article: Jamadar et al. Circadian Clock Disruption and Growth of Kidney Cysts in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 36(3):p 378-392, March 2025.

04/07/2026

Dr. Marharyta Semenikhina, PhD, Instructor, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology.

Title of Talk: Leveraging transcriptomic databases for renal research. 

05/05/2026

Dr. Lashodya Dissanayake, MD, PhD, University of South Florida, Health

Research Article: Unraveling AURKB as a potential therapeutic target in pulmonary hypertension using integrated transcriptomic analysis and pre-clinical studies.  Lemay et al., 2025, Cell Reports Medicine 6, 101964.

06/02/2026

Dr. Anand Sharma, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London.

Research Article: DGAT-driven futile lipid cycling has a pronounced, yet concealed, thermogenic function. Sharma et al., 2026, Cell Metabolism 38, 1–18 June 2, 2026. 

07/07/2026

Dr. Ratnakar Tiwari, PhD, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, USF Health

Research Article:  Metabolites are not genes — avoiding the misuse of pathway analysis in metabolomics. Lee et al. Nature Metabolism (2025)

08/04/2026

Dr. Biyang Xu, PhD, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, USF Health

Research Article: Kir5.1-modulated potassium flux stimulates an anabolic kidney phenotype. Wu et al., iScience. 2025.