Laboratory Manager - Bolding Lab

Job description

Description The Monell Chemical Senses Center was founded in 1968 as the world’s first nonprofit scientific institute devoted exclusively to basic research on the chemical senses: taste, smell, and chemosensory irritation. Research at Monell contributes to a wide range of scientific and practical knowledge. With more than fifty Ph.D.-level scientists, the Center is making major progress toward understanding how the chemical senses function and their importance in everyday life. The Center is located in the University City area of Philadelphia. For more information on Monell please visit our website at www.monell.org . The Bolding Lab is seeking a Lab Manager to provide administrative support for our research into sensory processing and information storage in the olfactory system. We use large-scale in vivo electrophysiology, calcium imaging, optogenetics, and quantitative behavioral analysis to understand the neural basis of olfactory memory. The core responsibilities include ordering laboratory supplies and equipment, preparing solutions and setting up equipment for experiments, maintaining transgenic mouse lines, stereotaxic animal surgery and postoperative care, and conducting b...