Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
New York, New York
Chatsworth, Georgia
Posted: 28-Aug-24
Location: Los Angeles, California
Salary: Open
Categories:
Internal Number: 141801320
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, focusing on lung injury, infection, and inflammation is seeking a motivated Staff Research Associate I to study how innate immune responses, like the complement system, affect injury severity at mucosal surfaces such as the lung. Responsibilities include conducting immunology and molecular biology experiments, managing the mouse colony, working with human biospecimens, and maintaining detailed records. Additional duties involve ordering supplies, maintaining lab equipment, ensuring lab cleanliness, following safety protocols, and training students and new lab members. The role also includes managing the mouse breeding colony and responding to DLAM health cases.
Hourly range: $26.52-$31.63
Required:
- Knowledge of basic genetics, immunology, and biochemical principles
- Ability to use basic laboratory equipment, including centrifuge, pH meter, PCR, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to calculate concentrations of solutions as necessary.
- Ability to carefully handle mice according to ARC guidelines.
- Familiarity with techniques including Western blotting, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and ELISA
- Ability to create and maintain records accurately.
- Ability to organize raw data into a comprehensible form.
- Ability to maintain laboratory readiness for future experiments.
- Demonstrated computer skills including knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word and MS Powerpoint.
- Ability to communicate effectively to convey experimental results.
- Interpersonal skills to effectively interact with a diverse group of faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows and students.
- Demonstrate previous experience teaching and training students in laboratory research. Train new members of the lab in laboratory techniques.
- Aptitude and willingness to learn and execute in vivo work in murine models of lung injury.
- Aptitude and willingness to take responsibility for maintaining records and taking initiative on experimental plans in the laboratory
- Willingness to work with human biospecimens with adequate safety precautions
- Ability to prioritize and organize projects through multiple phases. Ability to meet deadlines and follow through on multiple tasks simultaneously with careful attention to detail, accuracy, completeness and thoroughness
Preferred:
- B.S. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or related field.
