Research Associate

Job description

A Research Associate position is available immediately in the Saito laboratory to study hepatic cell biology, hepatic inflammation, and innate antiviral immunology. Our laboratory utilizes the state-of-the-art humanized liver chimeric mouse model in addition to the tools of cell biology, virology, genetics, molecular biology and systems biology. The ideal applicant will be a hardworking, creative and highly self-motivated researcher who is interested in the field of liver disease (e.g. metabolic liver disease, viral hepatitis, liver inflammation, and hepatic immunity). The candidate is expected to have significant experience with in vitro and vivo experiments, including but not limited to primary cell isolation/culture, general molecular biology, biochemistry, in vivo study skills. This includes, but not limited to, protein assay (Western Blotting, Immunoprecipiatation, gel analysis), nucleic acids (DNA and RNA such as cloning, PCR, RT-QPCR, RNA synthesis, transfection, extraction), microscopic analysis (immune fluorescent staining, Immuno-histochemistry (IHC), light microscopy and image analysis and processing). The ideal applicant will be a hardworking, creative, and highly self-...