Research Assistant II-Chatila Lab

Job description

Status Full-Time Standard Hours per Week: 40 Job Posting Category: Research: Job Posting Description: Position Summary/ Department Summary: The Research Assistant working in the Chatila Lab in the Division of Immunology at Boston Children’s Hospital will work with a team of post-doctoral researchers and the PI to decipher fundamental and genetic pathways that regulate immune tolerance and how perturbations in these pathways results different human allergic and autoimmune diseases. Key Responsibilities: - Responsible for learning, designing and performing a variety of routine laboratory experiments and procedures including processing of human blood samples, tissue culturing of human and mouse immune cells, handling and genotyping mice, tissue dissection and immunoblotting and flow cytometric studies utilizing standard laboratory equipment, as well as analyzing and interpreting results. - Assists in troubleshooting procedures and Conducts literature searches and reviews, compiling information for journals and suggesting uses for new techniques to the P.I. - Meet with PI and Post docs to discuss their own project and participate in lab meetings and other oppportunities to present thei...