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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Posted Date
10/30/2024
Salary Range: $26.52 - 31.63 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
20233

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Semel Insititute is seeking to hire a full time Staff Research Assistant of the Principal Investigator and the Assistant Adjunct Professor, the SRA I provide technical support to members of the research team on number of projects from the lab and in collaboration with outside investigators. 

Main duties of this role include: 

  • managing mouse colonies (mouse weaning, biopsy the mice by ear punch after weaning, genotyping). 
  • sectioning mouse brains and performing immunostaining. 
  • Intracranial stereotaxic injections. 
  • Coordinating or running standard fear-related behavioral tests.
Pay Range: $26.52 - $31.63 hourly

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Working experience in a laboratory setting for at least a year.
  • High motivation and positive attitude.
  • Willingness to work as part of a dynamic and active disease-oriented research team in an academic setting.

Preferred:

  • B.A or B.S or higher degrees in life sciences field.
  • Working experience in neuroscience, with mouse handling experience.
  • Basic histology skills.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional 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; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.