OPS Laboratory Technician

Job description

Classification Title: OPS Laboratory Technician Classification Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in biology or a closely related life science field. Job Description: This position is renewable on a yearly basis and subjected to performance evaluation. Maintenance and organization of lab mouse strains; Oversight of each individual lab member’s mouse colony; Genotyping mice; Breeding mice; Preparation of animal protocols; Returning reports to the PI, weekly, regarding the status of the entire lab mouse colony. - Provide overall management of the laboratory mouse colony, which includes: - Manage laboratory research supplies, routinely ordering for the lab as needed to maintain adequate levels of resources for the completion of research experiments as necessitated by the scope of work of the extramurally-funded projects in progress. Organize the laboratories, and overseeing the inventory and storage of supplies. - Supervise and maintain critical laboratory stocks including the antibody database, and plasmid database, and oversee the use and maintenance of specialized laboratory equipment. Research new laboratory equipment for purchase as needed, to improve the overall efficiency...