Research Biological Laboratory Technician

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/05/2026.

• Specialized Experience: Research activity or control program work.
• Nursery work that required the growing and maintenance of plants in a controlled environment.
• Work comparable to that with a large dairy farm where production records, animal environment, and sanitary conditions were kept in accordance with modern dairy practice.
• Education and Training:
• Successful completion of 1 year of study that included at least 6 semester hours in any combination of scientific or technical courses such as biology, chemistry, statistics, entomology, animal husbandry, botany, physics, agriculture, or mathematics.
• Successful completion of 2 years of study that included at least 12 semester hours in any combination of courses such as those shown above for GS-3.
• At least 6 semester hours of courses must be directly related to the position to be filled.
• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study or at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as those shown above for GS-3.
• At least 6 semester hours of courses must have been directly related to the position to be filled.
• The successful completion of a full course of study of at least 12 months in a school for clinical laboratory technicians may be substituted for the 1 year of specialized experience required at the GS-5 level for positions involving microbiology and biochemistry technician work.

Duties

Duties:

• Conduct research on diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
• Assessment of animal physiology in response to diet - molecular and histological analysis of tissues - analyzing data - and preparing research reports.
• Weighing mice.
• Assessing glucose and insulin tolerance.
• Determining body composition and energy expenditure - liver histology - western blotting - immunoassays on plasma - and data analysis.