Registration for the 2012 class is now closed, contact Nancy Lightsey for more information about the 2013 programs.

Aim of the Course

This is a hands on, practical training course that is designed to train renal fellows, post-docs, graduate students and technicians in the practice of handling, phenotyping and performing commonly used and important mouse renal kidney injury models. By completion of the course participants will be sufficiently familiar with practical procedures to be able to set up these models in their own laboratories, if necessary with continued support from the MKPDC faculty and staff. It is also anticipated that this forum will establish clear standards of practice for some of the more demanding surgical models of kidney injury (including ischemia/reperfusion injury, unilateral ureteric obstruction and 5/6 nephrectomy models in mice).

Course Description

This is a five day course comprising 1-3 hours of didactic lectures and training videos followed by 6-8 hours of practical demonstrations and one on one hands on practical training each day. Lectures and practical training sessions will be conducted in a fully equipped and dedicated mouse phenotyping and training facility that is coordinated through the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Core at Vanderbilt. A detailed course outline and itinerary is provided. Lectures and training sessions will be coordinated by Vanderbilt O'Brien Center Faculty. Technical assistance will be provided by experienced research assistants and post-doctoral fellows. Practical training videos will be available to registered trainees.