Lab Assistant 1 - Sharbrough Lab

Job Posting Details
Position Number: _3366
Payroll

Title:

LAB AST 1 (009605)
Job Code: 009605
Job Open Date: 7/31/26
Application Review Begins: 08/17/26
Department Code (Name): EEMB (ECOLOGICAL BIOLOGY)
Percentage of Time: 100%
Union Code (Name): TX-Technical Professionals
Employee Class (Appointment Type): Staff:
Career
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Classified Indicator Description (Personnel Program): PSS
Salary Grade: STEPS
Pay Rate/Range: The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $27.04/hour to $27.58/hour. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range for this position is $27.04/hour to $32.31/hour.
Work Location: Bio II Room 1166
Working Days and

Hours:

Mon-Fri, 8:00am-5:00pm
Benefits Eligibility: Full Benefits
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Brief Summary Of Job Duties
The Lab Assistant I in the Sharbrough Lab will be responsible for inventory management to maintain all Sharbrough Lab operations, will work with Dr. Sharbrough to design and carry out a research experiment focused on the role of polyploidy in contributing to oxidative damage under stressful conditions, and will work collaboratively with other Sharbrough Lab members to support their individual research projects.

The Lab Assistant I will be particularly responsible for helping setup field sampling and experiments at the Jug Handle Ecological Staircase and the Sedgewick UC Reserve, respectively. In addition, the Lab Assistant I will keep Sharbrough Lab website materials up-to-date, will assist Dr. Sharbrough in data management and care, and will operate standardized processes in the lab (e.g., DNA sequence processing).

Finally, Lab Assistant I will organize, index, and advise upon available germplasm (i.e., plant accessions) in the lab and organize all genomic/transcriptomic data collected from all lineages/accessions.
Required Qualifications

• Graduation from high school or a General Education Diploma and one year of laboratory experience or two years of college including courses in the natural, physical or social sciences; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledges and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.

• Less than 1 year Experience working as an undergraduate research assistant in a lab in the ecological or evolutionary biological sciences
• Resourcefulness
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of R programming language
• Ability to pipet small volumes of liquid accurately
• Ability to read and understand scientific literature
• Capable of performing evolutionary analyses
• Experience in measures of…