MMPC Courses
MMPC will provide the community with up-to-date information on new course availability. This page will be updated periodically with current course information.

Tracers in Metabolic Research
Announcing the Fifth Annual Course presented by Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers
Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis
March 12-16, 2012
The Peabody Little Rock, 3 Statehouse Plaza
Little Rock, Arkansas
1-800-Peabody (1-800-732-2639)
Discounted rate: $145/night
Reservations Identifier: 5th Annual Isotope Tracers Conference
Organized by the MMPC and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging
Course Directors: Henri Brunengraber and Robert Wolfe
Sponsored by a grant from NIDDK to H. Brunengraber
Annual hands-on course in methods,protocols and quantitative tools needed to perform glucose clamps in the conscious mouse.

Theory and practice of isotopic tracers to study metabolism in man and animals using mass spectrometry and NMR, including isotopomer analysis for metabolic flux rates.
The course brochure and registration form, as well as other information can be found at http://www.mmpc.org/shared/tracers.aspx
Or you may contact Maren Laughlin at maren.laughlin@nih.gov or or Deb Viane, Course Assistant, at djviane@uams.edu


Isotec-Sigma-Aldrich is generously sponsoring five registration fellowships for graduate students and postdocs. To apply for a fellowship, go to http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/stable-isotopes-isotec/learning-center/Isotope_Tracers_Application.html

Glucose Clamping The Conscious Mouse
6th Annual Course : Presented by the Vanderbilt-NIDDK Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center (MMPC), Nashville, Tennessee
Glucose Clamping The Conscious Mouse: A Laboratory Course
September 20 – 24, 2010
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Vanderbilt-NIDDK Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center
Nashville, Tennessee
6th annual week-long course to familiarize participants with methods, protocols and quantitative tools necessary to perform glucose clamps in the conscious mouse.
Registration Closed for 2009
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An Organ Systems Approach to Experimental Targeting of the Metabolic Syndrome
An Organ Systems Approach to Experimental Targeting of the Metabolic Syndrome
Hosted by the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
July 18 – 28, 2011
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diabetes/msshortcourse
Nashville, Tennessee
The course will be an intensive two week experience for 20 students. The objective of the course is to give students the tools needed to assess whether an experimental intervention (pharmacologic, genetic, dietary, or environmental) alters macronutrient metabolism, energy balance, cardiovascular homeostasis or animal behavior. To accomplish this, we will use a combination of lectures, hands on laboratories, demonstrations and data problem sessions.
Registration Closed for 2008
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