Kim McDevitt's Contact Details

Kim McDevitt's Company Details

LGC Genomics Division

Hoddesdon, England, United Kingdom • 150 Employees
Biotechnology

At LGC we offer a full range of high quality PCR reagents, custom genotyping assays, genomic services and workflow solutions for DNA sample preparation and downstream processing (www.lgcgroup.com/genomics). Our proprietary KASP™ allelic discrimination chemistry and has optimised workflows for 1536 microtitre plates that enable assay miniaturization for more flexible, cost effective workflow solutions in high throughput genotyping. In addition, customers are offered industry leading proprietary nucleic acid extraction, sequencing and genotyping services from our laboratories in Europe and US.Key applications include validation and screening of newly discovered SNPs in Marker-Assisted Selection and Marker-Assisted Breeding programmes for both plant and livestock. As such, the company is building a leading position in the agbio market and increasing adoption by the academic research market, with over 1700 scientific papers citing KASP.We operate sales offices in the UK, Germany and the USA, with sales representatives throughout Europe and Australia as well as distributors in China, Korea and other key emerging territories.