Description
The Semel Institute is seeking to hire a limited part time Lab Assistant to support SRAs or GSRs in performance of experiments, all with supervision, including:
- Staining of tissue sections
- Assisting with animal surgeries
- Assisting with tissue culture experiments by feeding and passaging cells
- General lab tasks including preparation of tissue reagents.
- Keep proper laboratory protocols and updated lab-notebooks.
Please note that this limited position may convert to career.
Pay Range: $22.02 - $25.90 hourly.
Qualifications
Required:
- Ability to communicate effectively on a one-to-one basis sufficiently to convey experimental results to principal investigators.
- Writing skills sufficient to compose laboratory protocols which are clear, concise, logical and display proper syntax and grammar.
- Interpersonal skill to interact and collaborate effectively with scientist co-workers, graduate students, and faculty.
- Skill in handling and disposing of contaminated material according to protocol.
- Ability to organize raw data into relevant formats.
- Reading skills sufficient to understand specific protocol relevant journal articles, and equipment.
- Ability to perform library searches
- knowledge of use of qRT-PCR machine, cryostat, microscope, gel/blot imager, plate reader
Preferred:
- University level course work in molecular and cell biology preferred
- Skills in routine molecular and cellular biology techniques preferred
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