Drosophila Malpighian tubules: a model for understanding kidney development, function, and disease / Naveen Kumar Gautam, Puja Verma, and Madhu G. Tapadia -- Zebrafish pronephros development / Richard W. Naylor, Sarah S. Qubisi, and Alan J. Davidson -- Zebrafish as a model of kidney disease / Elvin E. Morales and Rebecca A. Wingert -- Use of Xenopus frogs to study renal development/repair / Shoshoni T. Droz and Kelly A. McLaughlin -- Tissue-specific functions of p53 during kidney development / Zubaida Saifudeen -- Growth factor regulation in the nephrogenic zone of the developing kidney / Leif Oxburgh, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, and Aaron Brown -- Development and diseases of the collecting duct system / Lihe Chen, Paul J. Higgins, and Wenzheng Zhang -- Origin and function of the renal stroma in health and disease / Christopher J. Rowan, Sepideh Sheybani-Deloui, and Norman D. Rosenblum -- Imaging, analysing and interpreting branching morphogenesis in the developing kidney / Kieran M. Short and Ian M. Smyth -- Genetic syndromes affecting kidney development / Abhijeet Pal and Kimberly J. Reidy -- Primary cilia in cystic kidney disease / Prachee Avasthi, Robin L. Maser, and Pamela V. Tran -- Inflammation and fibrosis in polycystic kidney disease / Cheng Jack Song, Kurt A. Zimmerman, Scott J. Henke, and Bradley K. Yoder -- Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EndMT): role and implications in kidney fibrosis / Ana S. Cruz-Solbes and Keith Youker.