Lab Technician (Hourly), Department of Surgery
Richmond, Virginia
Employer: Virginia Jobs
Industry: Surgery
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Overview
A laboratory technician position is available in the Department of Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University. The successful candidate will be working in a very active, enthusiastic and highly dynamic pre-clinical translational research laboratory. We are seeking a highly motivated individual.
Job duties will include the following:
Required Education & Experience
A laboratory technician position is available in the Department of Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University. The successful candidate will be working in a very active, enthusiastic and highly dynamic pre-clinical translational research laboratory. We are seeking a highly motivated individual.
Job duties will include the following:
- Making of general laboratory reagents (e.g. buffer preparation)
- Laboratory stock maintenance and ordering
- General laboratory maintenance (e.g. glass washing and laboratory tidying as needed)
- Maintain breeding colonies of genetically engineered mice including maintaining accurate and up to date records
- Collect mouse breeding colony tissue samples and processing for genotyping that requires animal handling skills
- Learning and then successfully performing preparation of small animals for anesthesia and surgery, performing the small animal surgeries themselves, drug treatment, monitoring the animal's recovery after surgery, and required institutional record keeping
- Learning and then successfully performing daily post-operative animal care with 100% compliance with VCU IACUC protocols and record-keeping
- Learning and then successfully performing small animal behavioral testing (e.g. motor function, cognition, depression and pain)
- Learning and then successfully performing small animal transcardial perfusions, tissue preparation, cryostat sectioning, fluorescent immunohistochemistry, and stereological cell counts
- Learning and then successfully performing fresh tissue dissection, and techniques including Western blotting QPCR, and flow cytometry
- Learning and then successfully performing in vitro culturing of either cell lines or primary cell cultures
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- General laboratory skills (e.g. buffer preparation)
- Ability to keep accurate records of daily procedures in a laboratory notebook (rigorous scientific record keeping required)
- Data entry using Microsoft Excel
- Ability to work in a diverse environment required
- Master's degree
Created: 2024-06-04
Reference: req3738_jD3sMNGL7Wbn
Country: United States
State: Virginia
City: Richmond
ZIP: 23222
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