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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
8 am - 12 pm
Posted Date
10/10/2025
Salary Range: $26.23 - 30.93 Hourly
Employment Type
4 - Staff: Limited
Duration
5 months
Job #
27059

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Semel Institute is seeking to hire a limited part time Lab Assistant to support SRAs or GSRs in performance of experiments, all with supervision, including:

  • Staining of tissue sections
  • Assisting with animal surgeries
  • Assisting with tissue culture experiments by feeding and passaging cells
  • General lab tasks including preparation of tissue reagents.
  • Keep proper laboratory protocols and updated lab-notebooks.
Please note that this limited position may convert to career. 

Pay Range: $26.23 - $30.93 hourly. 


Job Qualifications

Required:
  • Ability to communicate effectively on a one-to-one basis sufficiently to convey experimental results to principal investigators.
  • Writing skills sufficient to compose laboratory protocols which are clear, concise, logical and display proper syntax and grammar.
  • Interpersonal skill to interact and collaborate effectively with scientist co-workers, graduate students, and faculty.
  • Skill in handling and disposing of contaminated material according to protocol.
  • Ability to organize raw data into relevant formats.
  • Reading skills sufficient to understand specific protocol relevant journal articles, and equipment.
  • Ability to perform library searches
  • knowledge of use of qRT-PCR machine, cryostat, microscope, gel/blot imager, plate reader
Preferred:
  • University level course work in molecular and cell biology preferred
  • Skills in routine molecular and cellular biology techniques preferred

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.