Research Assistant I

Job description

Position Summary The research laboratory led by Drs David Morgan and Marcia Gordon is seeking a research technician to participate in research testing experimental treatments for Alzheimer's disease. The laboratory is supported by the NIH and other agencies to study mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and test possible treatments in these models. The research technician will be part of a research team consisting of faculty, students and other research technicians. The specific role of this position will be to perform behavioral analyses of the mice during the experiment and histological examination of the brains of the mice to determine if treatments modified the brain pathology. Additional responsibilities will be analysis of the data collected in the procedures and contribution to the design of experiments and resulting manuscripts as an integral part of the research team. Opportunities will also be available to learn additional methods used in the laboratory such as mouse brain surgery, protein chemistry, nucleic acid chemistry (PCR) and -omics methods such as RNAseq. Minimum Requirements: Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year co...