Intermediate Research Services Laboratory Professional

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Intermediate Research Services Laboratory Professional ( Job Number: 39905 ) Description: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department: Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Basic Research Division Job Title: Intermediate Research Services Laboratory Professional Position #:00848219 – Requisition #: 39905 Job Summary: The Wortham Lab at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes is recruiting a professional research assistant to support our studies of pancreatic beta cell adaptation and failure in diabetes. Our laboratory studies fundamental processes related to how pancreatic beta cells sense and respond to stress. We employ a variety of techniques including genomics, metabolomics, genetics, and physiology using both animal models of diabetes as well as primary culture of human pancreatic tissue. Under general supervision, the incumbent will assist general studies in the laboratory using routine assays in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and in vivo physiology. Key Responsibilities / Duties: Animal work (30%) Assist with metabolic studies in mice Dissect and process mouse tissues for immunohistochemical analysis Routine and advanced molecular biology, biochemist...