Kidney Disease Research Training Program Student Roster

Director

John C. Lieske, M.D.
Michael F. Romero, Ph.D.

Review the focus areas, mentors and publications of current and former trainees in the Kidney Disease Research Training Program at Mayo Clinic.

Appointee	Mentor	Research focus	Mayo Clinic publications
Jennifer Arroyo, Ph.D.	John C. Lieske, M.D.	In silico evaluation of variants of unknown significance found in phosphate homeostasis and vitamin D metabolism genes commonly found to cause monogenic renal disease	View publications
Sabena M. Conley, Ph.D.	Lilach O. Lerman, M.D., Ph.D.	Neurophysiological effects of sympathetic activity on the kidney in obesity	View publications
Charles Asher Day, Ph.D.	Mark A. McNiven, Ph.D.	GTPase dynamin 2 (dyn2) students	View publications
Vladimir G. Gainullin, Ph.D.	Peter C. Harris, Ph.D.	The molecular pathomechanism of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease	View publications
Matthew L. Hillestad, Ph.D.	Karl A. Nath, M.D.	Gene therapy for relevant kidney and vascular diseases	View publications
Michael R. Hinten, Ph.D.	Jinghua Hu, Ph.D.	PKD1 or PKD2 mutation alters the epigenetic transcriptional profile of tubular epithelial cells	View publications
Greg M. Landry, Ph.D.	Michael F. Romero, Ph.D.	Utilizing a Drosophila melanogaster experimental model to determine environmental and genetic factors contributing to calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis	View publications
Massini A. Merzkani, M.D.	Andrew D. Rule, M.D.	New-onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation; Recurrence of glomerulonephritis after transplantation	View publications
Carmen J. Reynolds, Ph.D.	Michael F. Romero, Ph.D.	Drosophila Clc-c model of Dent disease and human CLC-5 mutations	View publications
Adam J. Rossano, M.D., Ph.D.	Michael F. Romero, Ph.D.	Specific renal manifestations of ion transport and protein trafficking deficits in SLC4A4 (NBCe1) mutations with known clinical phenotypes	View publications
Cynthia J. Sieben, Ph.D.	Peter C. Harris, Ph.D.	Elucidation of the pathogenicity and phenotypic impacts of PKD1, PKD2, and TMEM67 mutations across a broad phenotypic spectrum in ADPKD and various ciliopathies	View publications