The Lyons Den is of the laboratoy of Dr. Leslie A. Lyons at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary medicine. The laboratory is located on the Health Sciences campus in Tupper Hall, which is directly north of the Veterinary Medicne Teaching Hospital (VMTH). The laboratory provides genetics training for technicians, post-doctoral fellows, Master's and PhD degree students, veterinary students and undergraduates. Each post-doctoral fellow is responsible to a project for the cat, dog, horse, or rhesus macaque. Under each post-doctoral fellow are graduate and undergraduate students who enter the lab as graduate students or after their sophomore year of undergraduate school and assist with basic lab operations and begin their exposure and training in laboratory skills and genetics. Veterinary students and residents are welcome to gain experience in research and genetics and graduate students from the several UCDavis graduate programs spend their laboratory rotations in the Lyons Den. Because of the unique and mid to high-throughput capabilities of this new genetics laboratory in sequencing, DNA typing and mutation detection, students and investigators with genetic interests from grapes to exotic wildlife, from all over the UCDavis campus, are welcome to use the facilities and expertise. The laboratory supports local "Gate Programs" with the partipation of grades 6 - 12 in the research efforts.

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