Released on November 23, 2015, Basement Membranes is now available. Edited by 
Division of Nephrology faculty member and Professor of Medicine Jeffrey Miner, PhD, this text contains a collection of outstanding and diverse reviews of basement membranes that is focused on both invertebrates and vertebrates, all authored by leaders in the basement membrane field. Dr. Miner has made numerous important contributions to this field and is an international authority. His laboratory investigates the role of basement membrane components in kidney function and disease, with particular emphasis on the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) as a component of the glomerular filtration barrier to albumin.