The Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research is dedicated to providing education, training and enrichment opportunities. Mini-sabbaticals and other instructional opportunities are available to new and established investigators, post-doctoral fellows and trainees, with the goal of bring new technologies into the laboratories of investigators to broaden and enhance their research activities. Each Core offers 1 to 2 week “mini-sabbaticals”, where attendees work in one of the Cores to learn specific techniques. Our Single Nephron and Organ Physiology Core offers three to six month sabbaticals for scientists or trainees interested in acquiring the skills needed for successful microperfusion of isolated tubules for measurement of transport or functional fluorescence imaging. Our Center will assist investigators in arranging mini-sabbaticals, including housing arrangements.
To participate in a mini-sabbatical, please complete the core usage form and return to Drs. Thomas Kleyman or Ora Weisz.
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Other educational opportunities:
Our Center co-sponsors an annual Local Traffic Symposium, a one-day event held each May at the University of Pittsburgh that explores the cell biology of membrane biogenesis and protein trafficking. The meeting includes student presentations, faculty lectures, and a keynote address. The symposium is designed to provide a forum for students, faculty, and research support staff with an interest in membrane traffic to interact and share their recent findings on protein folding, ER degradation, secretory and endocytic traffic.
Our Center co-sponsors an annual Pittsburgh Ubiquitin-Proteasome Meeting. The meeting brings together scientists in the Pittsburgh area whose research relates to various aspects of cellular protein quality control and the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The meeting includes student presentations, faculty lectures, and a keynote address.
Our Center co-sponsors an annual week-long summer workshop on Epithelial Physiology and Cell Biology held in Telluride, Colorado, under the auspices of the Telluride Science Research Center. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts who will present recent findings and generate discussions in the following areas: (i) structure and regulation of epithelial ion channels; (ii) structure and regulation of ion co-transporters, exchangers and pumps; and (iii) protein trafficking in epithelia.