Graduate Assistant

Recruitment/Posting

Title:

Graduate Assistant

Job Category:
Staff & Executive
- Research Support (Laboratory/Non-Laboratory)

Department: RWJ
- Medicine Gastroenterolog

New Jersey's academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Graduate Assistant for the department of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Under the direction of Principal Investigator, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Graduate Assistant for the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The Graduate Assistant will work with Dr. Brant's laboratory on genetics of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) research projects. The research team will be performing three projects: recruitment of patients with IBD and healthy controls for genetic association studies;

epigenetic analyses on diverse ancestral populations using ATAC-Seq complemented by gene expression using RNA-Seq to understand differential genetic association of IBD loci by ancestry; and statistical genetics association and bioinformatic analyses to determine IBD risk variants by ancestry and those that interact with environmental factors.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Assists with recruitment of subjects with IBD and healthy controls.
• Assists in maintaining accuracy and completion of all study related material.
• Assists with data entry and shipping of samples.
• Assists with proper labeling, storage and recording of human samples.
• Assists with isolation of T lymphocytes from blood samples, isolation of DNA and RNA, and performance of ATACseq laboratory protocol.
• Organizes data generated from ATAC-Seq analyses for comparison with known IBD gene associations.
• Assists in analyses of IBD gene association by chromosomal ancestry and bioinformatic analyses of results.

Nonexempt

99H

$16.63 to $26.27

15.92

75.00

150.00

The final salary offer may be determined by several factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, and expertise, and availability of department or grant funds to support the position. We also take into consideration market benchmarks, if and when appropriate, and internal equity to ensure fair…