Staff Associate II

The Staff Associate II will support the operations of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative Flow Cytometry core, which works with over 600 users from 200 labs. The candidate will contribute to research by operating complex equipment for experiments, training users, providing experimental design consultations, maintaining equipment, troubleshooting experiments and equipment, communicating with researchers, performing routine lab maintenance.

• Operate and maintain complex research instrumentation 10%,
• Participate in research by assisting users to designe xperiments. 20%,
• Train users on intricacies of instrumentation to ensure experimental success. 10%

• Troubleshooting problems with instrumentation. 5%
• Troubleshooting users' experiments on the instruments. 5%
• Troubleshooting data analysis. 5%

• Collaboratively make decisions about instrument settings and parameters to ensure experimental success. 5%,
• Collaboratively make decisions about instrument performance to ensure instrument issues are addressed. 5%

• Perform experiments on the instrumentation. 10%,
• Troubleshoot issues on instrument. 10%,
• Assist researchers to design and troubleshoot experiments. 5%

• Communicate with researchers about technical topics;communicating with researchers about group training sessions. 10%

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 3 years hands-on flow cytometry experience. Understanding of essential concepts of cell and molecular biology.
• 4 years of experience are recommended