OPS Lab Assistant - Chandran Lab

Job Description:

This position is located in the Department of Pediatrics’ Child Health Research Institute. This position will perform laboratory experiments using applications and procedures established in this lab. This will include: Perfusion, Dissection, Mouse behavioral tests, IP injections, PCR for genotyping, Protein assays, Western blots, RNA extraction, tissue culture, histology, confocal microscopy and various other molecular biology tests/experiments. This position will be involved with tissue culture of animal’s cell lines and some primary cell lines. This position will be exposed to animal tissues to include harvesting and processing. This position will be expected to participate in all IACUC approved animal studies. The candidate will be involved in animal husbandry, breeding, daily checks, weening, tail snips and harvesting. Additionally, this position will be expected to maintain the lab daily and train new lab members as well as maintain daily accur...