Research Associate – Imaging & Experimental Biology

Research Associate I – Imaging & Experimental Biology

The Allen Institute accelerates science for a healthier world through large-scale research designed to answer some of the most complex questions in biology. Our multi-disciplinary teams generate foundational knowledge, tools, and data to understand how our brain, cells, and immune system work. We share our work openly so others can build on it, move faster, and ask bigger questions. We drive discovery forward and create new possibilities for improving human health.

The goal of our Cell Science accelerator is to create the first holistic framework to predict how cells self-organize into complex cell communities and tissues in order to program an entirely new kind of synthetic tissue that can be used to ask focused questions about how cells behave, including in response to drug interventions.

The Cell Science accelerator at the Allen Institute is recruiting two Research Associates to contribute to their ambitious new mission: to make multicellular behavior predictable and programmable. To achieve this goal, the Cell Science team draws from distinctive strengths in stem cell engineering, high-content imaging, image quantification, and data-driven machine learning to advance our understanding of cell states during morphogenesis.

We seek a motivated and versatile Research Associate with cell culture, molecular biology, and imaging experience for an interdisciplinary role at the forefront of synthetic morphogenesis. These roles will contribute to Cell Science programs that are developing synthetic approaches to control tissue growth and patterning. The team leverages spatial
-omics and quantitative live-cell imaging to establish the landscape of cell state transitions during morphogenesis in 3D multicellular stem cell cultures. The successful candidates will collaborate within the team to perform experiments and analyses, as well as fulfill other support functions within the team. The position requires attention to detail and an interest in collaborative team-based science, including maintaining meticulous records, coordination with other programs in the Institute to ensure seamless integration and sharing of resources and data, and adherence to SOPs.

At the Allen Institute, we believe that science is for everyone – and should be open to everyone. We are dedicated to combating biases and reducing barriers to STEM careers more broadly.

We also believe that science is better when it includes different perspectives and voices. We strive to make the Allen Institute a place where everyone feels like they belong and are empowered to do their best work in a supportive environment.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for our open positions.

Essential Functions

• Conduct fluorescence imaging experiments using spinning-disk confocal, lattice light-sheet, and other advanced microscopy platforms
• Adhere to SOPs and workflows with meticulous documentation
• Summarize and present data internally and externally as needed, via oral and written reports
• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team and within a program/project management infrastructure to achieve project goals
• Assist with quality-control testing of microscopes
• Assist in cross-functional research activities involving various experimental and computational teams
• Contribute to manuscript preparation efforts as a supplemental author
• Properly handle hazardous chemicals
• Working with hiPSCs

Note:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or…