[Recorded Webinar and Slides Are Available Now!] Join dkNET Webinar: The Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers: Services And Data on Friday, January 24, 2020 at 11am PT

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Join dkNET Webinar on Friday, January 24, 2020, 11am - 12pm PT

The Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (MMPC) is a National Institutes of Health-Sponsored resource that provides experimental testing services to scientists studying diabetes, obesity, diabetic complications, and other metabolic diseases in mice. Dr. Richard McIndoe will introduce resources and tools that are available at MMPC. 

The top 3 key questions that MMPC portal can answer:

1. What tests are available for metabolic phenotyping live mice?

2. What experimental datasets are relevant to a specific mammalian phenotype(s)?

3. What mammalian phenotypes are associated with specific gene manipulations in mouse models?

Abstract

A common strategy to dissect the etiology, genetics and underlying physiology of a disease is to create mouse models using gene targeting and manipulation techniques.  These mouse models were developed by targeting one or more candidate genes or by using a whole genome mutagenesis strategy.  The careful and reproducible characterization of these animal models is important for the advancement of biomedical research.  The expense, expertise and time required to develop state-of-the-art phenotyping technologies is beyond the reach of many investigators.  The Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (MMPC) were created to provide the scientific community with cost effective, high quality, standardized metabolic and phenotyping services.  The focus of the MMPC is on experiments that characterize living animals as well as providing technologies that are important for understanding metabolism and physiology.  The MMPC provides state-of-the-art technologies to investigators for a fee, with their services including characterization of mouse metabolism, blood composition (including hormones), energy balance, eating and exercise, organ function and morphology, physiology and histology. There are currently five MMPC Centers located at Vanderbilt University, University of California Davis, University of Cincinnati, University of Massachusetts and the University of Michigan.  Investigators using the MMPC services agree to release the data generated by the MMPC to the general public via the national website database.  This talk will review the structure of the MMPC, the services it provides and the data generated by the consortium for public use.

Presenter: Dr. Richard McIndoe, Professor, College of Graduate Studies and the College of Allied Health Sciences, Medical College of Georgia.

Dial-in information: https://uchealth.zoom.us/meeting/register/v5IpduyvrjIiwNuNgRJtuK7ewgtWLMMs0g

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