Overview
The Metabolic Kitchen is equipped for the design of all manners of meal preparation. The kitchen and food storage area are fully equipped and suitable for controlled feeding studies. The dining room contains a dining area that can serve up to 24 research participants.
Mandy Bates, the food labs manager, oversees the HMRU research kitchen and dining area, ensuring food safety compliance, coordinating facility use, and assisting faculty in developing metabolic research menus tailored to specific study requirements.
The Nell I. Mondy Laboratory is well-equipped for the assessment of all aspects of physical performance. The lab contains facilities to test energy expenditure and oxygen consumption by indirect calorimetry.
The Body Composition Laboratory contains instruments to assess body fat, fat-free mass and bone mineral content by densitometry and anthropometry, with examination rooms, a Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometer (DXA), bioelectrical impedance analysis and Bod-Pod. Anthropometric measurements are also available.
We offer a range of clinical procedures, including venipuncture, blood glucose point of care testing, hemoglobin point of care testing, fat and muscle biopsies, ultrasounds, specimen collection and more.
