Required:

Cell culture experience including aseptic technique and primary cell culture.

Ability to perform general laboratory techniques such as weighing, sterilizing, titration, glassware washing, filtering, reagent and buffer prep, maintaining sterile technique. 

Skill in keeping accurate and complete research records. 

Ability to recognize irregularities and invalid results. 

Ability to make sound measurements and observations. 

Ability to work as part of a research team and establish cooperative working relationships with researchers, residents, students, and other support personnel.

Ability to communicate in oral and written form, for the purpose of providing information to others in the laboratory.  This includes the ability to record findings and methods in a laboratory journal in an accurate, complete, and timely way. 

Ability to read and understand experimental protocols as guidelines.

Mathematical skills to calculate chemical and biological concentrations in solutions.  

Organized, detail oriented, and able to quickly adapt to the addition of novel tasks. 

Preferred:

Knowledge and understanding of molecular techniques. 

Ability to conduct multiple experiments in close temporal proximity. 

Knowledge of how to use and maintain modern laboratory equipment including incubators, tissue culture hoods, centrifuges, balances, and pH meter.

Animal husbandry knowledge (small animals: mice, rat, rabbit) and support of surgical procedures by surgical team.