Researcher V - SMS-3814

Responsibilities

• Administration: 0%
• Teaching: 5%
• Assists in training other lab members and collaborators.
• Research: 95%
• Rodent Colony Maintenance:
• Rodent husbandry, genotyping, identifying, weaning, and treating.
• Maintaining online inventory and distribution to laboratory personnel.
• Conserving resources to keep within annual budgets.
• Point of contact for IACUC and laboratory personnel.
• General laboratory cleaning, upkeep, and maintenance.
• Solution preparation, cleaning dishes, laundry, and autoclaving glassware and surgical instruments.
• Laboratory inventory and restocking of supplies.
• Maintaining quality control and good laboratory practices.
• Maintaining laboratory equipment.
• Supports other laboratory personnel, when needed.
• Set-up and perform technical experiments and data collection.
• Behavioral assays including novel object recognition, Morris water maze, y-maze, open field, grip strength, ELISA, WB, PCR, insulin and glucose tolerance testing.
• Brain dissection, cryo-sectioning, and immunohistochemical staining.
• Rodent handling and dosing including oral, intraperitoneal, and subcutaneous.
• Tissue dissection and blood collection.
• Cellular and molecular biology experiments.
• In vitro experiments (primary cell culture).
• Transfusion.
• Data and statistical analyses.
• Scientific and oral/poster presentations.
• Maintain good laboratory practices (GLP) and lab notebook.

Qualifications

• One of the following:
• Ph.D. degree or MA/MS degree in appropriate field with at least 6 years of relevant work experience.
• BA/BS degree with at least 12 years of relevant work experience.

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