Laboratory Manager
About the role
Manages day-to-day laboratory operations while ensuring compliance with safety regulations and best practices. Works with, adapts, and installs scientific equipment in research laboratories. Collaborates on routine projects and procedures. Manages inventory and equipment and performs budget functions.
We are seeking a full-time Laboratory Manager in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Clark. The laboratory has a focus in mucosal immunology and age-related innate immune dysfunction. The laboratory utilizes experimental mouse model systems and performs a variety of immunological and molecular biology experiments including cell and tissue culture, RNA sequencing and analysis, immunohistochemistry, and flow cytometry.
Responsibilities
- Manage the daily functions of the laboratory including ordering supplies, maintaining laboratory compliance with IACUC, EH&S, and other required policies
- Assist and train other laboratory members and students
- Perform experiments, generate data, and complete data analysis using immunological and biomolecular laboratory techniques with primary cells and tissues isolated from mice
- Maintain the mouse colony including ordering mice and ensuring their delivery to correct campus facilities, ensuring the health and maintenance of the colony
- Perform surgical procedures and post-op care on mice, and collect tissue and cells at completion of experiments
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in the biologic sciences field or substitution of equivalent relevant experience
- Three years of previous laboratory experience (required)
- Previous experience working in a laboratory and experience handling rodents (preferred)
- Ability to work independently, be detail-oriented, and work well with members of the laboratory and with outside collaborators
Work schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.