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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Part Time: 8am - 12pm
Posted Date
10/10/2025
Salary Range: $22.02 - 25.9 Hourly
Employment Type
4 - Staff: Limited
Duration
Limited - 5 months
Job #
27061

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: $22.02 - $25.90 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