Lab Manager

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position. Please include your GPA and undergraduate institution (if applicable) in your cover letter as well. Note that all of your application materials must be combined into a single document.

In addition to applying online with your cover letter and resume, please send your most recent academic transcript (college transcript if available; unofficial transcript acceptable) directly to mind laboratory. We will ask for letters of recommendation for those who are shortlisted.

The Michigan Neurogenetics and Developmental Psychopathology (MiND) lab
, directed by Dr. Luke Hyde, and the Translational and Developmental Neuroscience (TaD) lab
, directed by Christopher Monk, are searching for a lab manager/research assistant (Research Technician Associate). These projects examine the development of young adult risk and resilience from multiple levels of analysis (using fMRI, molecular genetics, longitudinal approaches, and psychiatric interviews with young adults from disadvantaged contexts). The Research Technician will help to coordinate and collect data on the SAND project.

The SAND is a longitudinal study of families from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Study participants are now young adults (age ~24) and visiting our lab in Michigan where we are examining ecological variables across development that are associated with resilience and risk on neurobehavioral systems. This study is funded by multiple awards from NIMH.

These studies include young adults visiting the lab for a full day visit including an MRI scan, psychiatric interview, biospecimen assay (e.g., saliva, blood), and survey measures.
This project currently needs an additional staff member with experience with project management (i.e., recruitment, travel logistics), data management/MRI processing, and/or training and oversight of undergraduate students in the lab. For more information about the MiND lab please visit: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and the TaD lab visit:  . For more details on the SAND study see: /

In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, the University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and your family and plan for a secure future. Benefits include:

• Generous time off, including vacation time, sick time, holiday and season days
• A retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions with immediate vesting
• Many choices for comprehensive health insurance
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses

In addition, LSA offers:

• Strong commitment to work/life balance
• Flexible work arrangements with respect to campus stakeholder needs
• Enhanced tuition support programs for LSA courses

Being part of something greater, of serving a larger mission of discovery and care ? that's the heart of what drives people to work  some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. It's adding a purpose to your profession. Work at Michigan and become a victor for the greater good.

• Testing participants, doing home visits and running children through MRI protocol
• Analyzing and processing data, organizing data, and archiving data. Working on projects to effectively manage large amounts of data and working with IT and other labs to design efficient IT systems for the data.
• Participant scheduling and recruitment and visit management (e.g., preparing for family visits)
• Helping coordinate projects (helping other members of the lab, help with IRB submissions, coordinate with other labs, general laboratory maintenance)
• Train incoming research staff and students in the laboratory and be a resource throughout their employment

NOTE:

The amount of time in some of these activities (e.g., data organization versus preparing for visits) will vary somewhat based on experience, time of the year, and lab needs.

A very successful applicant will have the opportunity to contribute to the writing of empirical papers. Both labs focus on understanding the impact of adversity on brain and behavioral development and Dr. Monk's lab focuses on internalizing outcomes, whereas Dr. Hyde's lab focuses on externalizing outcomes. Both labs are committed to understanding resilience and identifying factors that promote success among youth and adults who have been marginalized and/or oppressed based on their socioeconomic status and/or ethnoracial identity.

Thus, there are a variety of areas of research focus for applicants to consider. This position is ideal for those interested in pursuing a future PhD in clinical or developmental…