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Job Summary
Responsibilities
Development of fixed and live cell preparation for single cell assays.
Quality control assays for cell preparation assays.
Design scRNA-seq workflows in a laboratory with established expertise in this domain.
Work with PhD students and Postdocs to support their single-cell experiments.
Will interface with an international, multidisciplinary team to share experience, results and to set short and long-term objectives of the project.
Some oversight and organization of general laboratory tasks and animal care of marine invertebrates.
Installs, sets up and performs experiments; interacting with students and other laboratory staff under the direction of the principal investigator.
Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
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Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Experience:
Two years of relevant research experience.
Preferred Competencies
Experience with basic molecular biology.
Some bioinformatic analysis skill is R and/or Python a plus.
Ability to work as a team player.
Strong Organizational skills.
Strong Analytical skills.
An ability to carefully document experiments and generate step by step written and/or video protocols and workflows to be shared with collaborating teams.
Application Documents
Cover Letter (required)
Resume (required)
Contact information for at least 2 references (required)
When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Role Impact
FLSA Status
Pay Frequency
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Benefits Eligible
Drug Test Required
Health Screen Required
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
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