Melissa A. Larson , Ph.D.

University of Missouri, 2000

G020 Kansas Life Sciences Innovations Center
3901 Rainbow Blvd.
Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone: 913-588-7416
Fax: 913-588-5677
mlarson@kumc.edu

Director of the Transgenic and Gene-Targeting Facility, a shared, core, research support facility http://www.kumc.edu/TGIF/. The TGIF provides services for KUMC investigators and researchers in the Kansas City area that include: generation of transgenic mice by pronuclear microinjection; generation of chimeric mice by blastocyst injection; targeting of embryonic stem cells; sperm and embryo cryopreservation and genotyping of mice and ES cells. We are available for consultation on new projects, as well as training and demonstration in microinjection, embryo transfer surgeries and ES cell culture.

In addition, our lab is conducting experiments to determine whether a novel recombinase, Dre, functions in mice. Demonstration of its action will provide another tool to manipulate the mouse genome in vivo.