Core Facility Focus on the Mouse Genome Engineering Core Lab

Blastocyst injections such as the one illustrated in this photo are among the procedures done in the Mouse Genome Engineering Core Lab.

The Mouse Genome Engineering Core Lab is one of several Core facilities available for use by UNMC researchers.

Core facilities, sometimes called shared resources, provide sophisticated, expensive technology and expertise that no single lab would have the financial resources to purchase and learn.

These fee-for-service resources help investigators maximize productivity by providing access to technologies, services and scientific consultation at a reasonable cost.

Core facilities also provide stability, reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality control that would be difficult to achieve otherwise.

Facility name: Mouse Genome Engineering Core Lab

Location: The lab presently is in the Munroe-Meyer Institute but will soon move the Durham Research Center II.

Services offered: Transgenic and knockout mouse service production, mouse ES Cell targeting or electroporation, mouse embryo and sperm cryopreservation, rederivation of cryopreserved as well as lines carrying mouse pathogens.

Featured equipment: Microinjection stations, ES cell culture and state-of-the-art cryopreservation storage

Manager contact information: Judith Stribley at jstrible@unmc.edu or 559-3338

Core facility managers wishing to have a focus piece done on their facilities can send an e-mail to today@unmc.edu with the facility’s name, location, services offered, featured equipment, testimonials, manager contact information and a photo of the facility.