Research​/Development Technician, Research Scientist

• Job Type: Support Staff - Union
• Bargaining Unit: SSA
• Regular/Temporary:
  Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard
  
  Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $47,692.59 - $47,692.59

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

The Technician A will assist the research team in all activities related to the study of membrane proteins from basic wet-lab operations tasks to more specialized biological, biochemical/biophysical tasks and will closely work with the team members in the division of Pre-Clinical Research.

• Performance of a variety of standard molecular biology methods such as PCR (or comparable technique) based site directed mutagenesis, recombinant cloning techniques, and routine protein-biochemical assays. 25%
• Maintenance of cell cultures and preparation of membrane vesicles. 25%
• Preparation of solutions and materials required for performance of routine experiments. 20%
• Maintenance of laboratory inventory of DNA, cell, and protein samples. 10%

• Two years of college or a completed A.A. program with an emphasis in chemistry, biology or physics or a completed animal husbandry program.

• N/A

• Must successfully complete all online systems training requirements.
• Experience in general wet-lab procedures.
• Knowledge in preparation of solutions and buffers.
• DNA mutagenesis and cloning techniques.
• Knowledge in maintaining small and large-scale pro- and eukaryotic cell cultures.
• Basic knowledge in protein biochemical methods (including chromatography).
• Knowledge in basic compute applications (MS Word, Excel) and specialized scientific software (e.g., graphing, in silico DNA and protein analysis software)

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