Senior Research Associate - Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine

Senior Research Associate - Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine

Job : 278319
Location: Augusta University
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary:

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Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences.

Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today. Our mission and values make Augusta University an institution like no other.

The University System of Georgia (USG) is comprised of 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards.

More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found online /policy manual/section8/C224/#p8.2._conduct. Freedom of Expression is supported as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found online /policy manual/section6/C2653.

The Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine is charged with conducting high-impact original biomedical research and translating the findings to clinical applications, and in educating future physicians and researchers. Our research addresses fundamental questions in basic and translational neuroscience, particularly in neuronal degeneration and regeneration. Department website: augusta.edu/mcg/dnrm. Medical College of Georgia (MCG) website: augusta.edu/mcg/index.php

Participate in research data collection and documentation within relevant guidelines and protocols; develop and evaluate new research techniques and procedures; publish results in scientific journals. Perform a variety of complex chemical, biological, cytologic, microscopic, histologic, surgical, statistical/computational and dissection procedures. Will perform experiments using acute and chronic stress models, transgenic mouse models and high-fat diet model, performing behavioral tests evaluating depression, anxiety, PTSD, learning and memory.

Will help to maintain mouse breeding colonies. Will perform western blotting, real-time PCR, CHIP assay, immunostaining, genotyping, and other lab work as needed.

The duties include, but are not limited to:

• Project Planning: Participate in project planning and development of research protocols while insuring adherence to accepted scientific research principles and compliance with relevant federal guidelines. Perform a variety of complex chemical, biological, cytologic, microscopic, histologic, surgical, statistical/computational and dissection procedures. Techniques include, but are not limited to, use of transgenic mouse models, mouse surgery, western blotting, immunostaining, qRT-PCR, CHIP assay, immunofluorescence and confocal imaging.
• Research Data Collection: Participate in research data collection and documentation within relevant guidelines and protocols; develop and evaluate new research techniques and procedures;
  Analyze results of experiments and procedures using manual or computer techniques and, if necessary, develop special computer programs to facilitate analysis.
• Articles: Compose articles for publication in scientific journals; review articles prepared by others.
• Supervisor Duties: Advise principal investigators, other postdocs, students and other research personnel on research techniques, procedures and other technological aspects of research activities. Will assist the PI with supervision of undergraduate students and graduate students.
• Experiments: Will perform experiments using acute and chronic stress models, transgenic mouse models and high-fat diet model, performing behavioral tests evaluating depression, anxiety, PTSD, learning and memory. Coordinate and participate in research of scientific literature; summarize and evaluate findings; develop derivative applications of techniques developed by own research activities or reported by other research projects.
• Other: Perform other related duties as assigned.

Master's degree in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, cell biology or other natural, life, health care or materials science directly related to the research area to which the position is assigned and two years of experience in research, basic science or clinical laboratory,…