Research Technician III

Job description

Summary We are looking for a new team member who is very organized and detail orientated. The position requires working as part of a team with day to day communication with supervisors. The applicant should have a track record of teamwork in an office environment. The technician will clone new transgenic constructs, create new stocks and conduct animal husbandry to test the created reagents. Job Duties: - Help generate new transgenic reagents and strategies for the fly community. - Design and conduct molecular cloning to create new transgenic constructs - Coordinate with other team members to create transgenic Drosophila stocks - Design and execute multi-generation Drosophila husbandry to generate experimental animals to test the generated reagents Immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy: - Data analysis using ImageJ, Photoshop, and Excel; - Record results in digital notebook - Conducts assays to assess and quantify neurotoxic protein levels using immunoblotting techniques - Conducts histopathological analyses from Drosophila brain sections immunostained with specific antibodies - Present acquired data regularly in lab meetings Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in a Ba...