Research Assistant (Gap Year) - Endocrinology (PRN)

Responsibilities

• taking care of the Mouse colony at our animal facility (husbandry, weaning, and ear tagging)
• performing in vivo experiments such as glucose and insulin tolerance tests
• drawing blood samples
• tissue harvesting
• performing immunohistochemistry and western blot analysis on various animal tissues

Requirements

• under the direction of the PI or lab members, performs projects, experiments, data collection, and data analysis
• designs experiments under guidance of PI or senior lab members
• performs data entry and maintains lab notebook
• receives mentorship for activities related to career goals and objectives (i.e., PhD or MD programs)
• drafts materials for manuscripts, presentations, and/or posters
• may present results as directed by PI
• reviews literature related to relevant research
• learns lab functions helpful in running a lab (e.g., purchasing, explaining protocols to other lab members)
• assists in developing procedures and guidelines for the lab
• assists with general lab upkeep, maintenance, and cleaning
• performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• undergraduate degree

Skills

• analytical thinking
• communication
• data entry
• detail-oriented
• lab instrumentation
• research labs
• software program grade R06-H

Benefits

Please visit our website at https://hr.wustl.edu/benefits/ to review our benefit eligibility criteria along with any applicable benefits.