Technician A

Technician A

• 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

Position Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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%

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

Other Requirements

• 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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