The American Society of Nephrology Kidney TREKS program (Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars) provides medical students interested in nephrology additional opportunities for research training and mentoring with established renal faculty and nephrologists. One component of the Kidney TREKS program is Origins of Renal Physiology:MS1, a one-week intensive laboratory summer short course held at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.
This course will enhance first-year medical students’ understanding of basic physiological concepts through hands-on experiments in a research laboratory.
The course will be organized around several research modules that examine all aspects of kidney function. Modules include: water homeostasis, salt homeostasis and secretion, acid/base homeostasis, glomerular function, and personalized medicine and genetics. In each module, classical experiments using model systems (toad, zebrafish, roundworm, shark, Xenopus oocyte) are combined with modern molecular techniques.
Course Director
- Mark Zeidel, M.D.Herman Ludwig Blumgart Professor of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Friday, June 6 Draft Schedule Subject to Change |
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4:00-6:00 pm | Housing check-inLater arrivals can pick up keys in the Dining Hall after Course Orientation |
6:00 pm | Welcome Dinner, Dining Hall |
7:00 pm | Course Orientation, Maren Auditorium |
Saturday, June 7 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Rotation 1, Training Lab |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm | Rotation 1, continued |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm | Rotation 1, continued |
Sunday, June 8 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Rotation 1, continued |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
12:30 pm | Large Lab Meeting, Maren Auditorium |
2:30 pm | Free Time for recreational activities |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
Monday, June 9 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Rotation 2 |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm | Rotation 2, continued |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
8:00 pm | Rotation 2, continued |
Tuesday, June 10 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Rotation 2, continued |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
12:30 pm | Large Lab Meeting, Maren Auditorium |
2:30 pm | Free time for recreation |
Dinner on your own in town | |
Wednesday, June 11 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Rotation 3 |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm | Rotation 3, continued |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm | Rotation 3, continued |
Thursday, June 12 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Rotation 3, continued |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
12:30 pm | Large Lab meeting, Maren Auditorium |
2:30 pm | Free time for recreation |
6:00 pm | Lobster Bake |
Friday, June 13 | |
anytime | Breakfast |
by 9:00 am | Self check-out from housing |
The course fee includes the cost of on-campus housing. Housing assignments and accommodation details will be sent to accepted students.