Lacey Ellington

Profile

RESEARCH SUMMARY: I’ve been a technician at the Stowers Institute since 2005. My first years were spent supporting many of the research labs from within the Tissue Culture Core. There, I worked with mouse ES cells, generated mutant and knock-in lines, and performed cryopreservation and IVF. I joined the Gibson lab in 2012, where I now work with the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, as well as corals. My primary goals are to establish new genetic tools and support the expansion of these research models within our lab. I rely primarily on CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homologous recombination for targeting and am interested in establishing methods for recombination.