Description

The Department of Surgery is seeking to hire a part time Staff Research Associate Level I (SRA I) in a cutting-edge plastic surgery research lab under the mentorship of the Principal Investigator.

Duties of this role include:

• Experimental Procedures and Bench Work

• Assisting with preparation for and completion of experiments

• Helping with data acquisition and experimental flow

• Cell culture maintenance, standard molecular biology techniques both classical and modern

• Animal Research: Help maintaining mouse colonies

• Assist with genotyping, breeding, organ harvesting

• Help maintain animal compliance paperwork and protocols

• Lab Administrative Duties: Assist in ordering of supplies and inventory management

• Help preparing lab buffer, chemical and reagent stocks for general lab use

• Data Management and Manuscript Preparation

• Procedural and statistical analysis of experimental data

• Creation of data figures for use in manuscripts and presentations

Pay Range: $26.51Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a life science field (eg Biology).

• Excellent work ethic and desire for personal growth and development.

• Ability to work flexible hours and varying timelines, as needed.

• Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships internally and externally.

• Ability to communicate in oral and written form, for the purpose of providing information to others in the laboratory. This includes the ability to record findings and methods in a laboratory journal in an accurate, complete, and timely way.

• Skill in tact and diplomacy.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and web-based database programs.

• Ability to be self-motivated, work with minimal supervision at times, handle multiple tasks and prioritize workload.

• Ability to work as part of a team and establish cooperative working relationships with researchers, residents, students, and other support personnel.

• Knowledge of UCLA Policies and Procedures, especially those for purchasing and waste disposal

• Organized, detail oriented, and able to quickly adapt to the addition of novel tasks.

• Ability to perform general laboratory techniques such as weighing, sterilizing, titration, glassware washing, filtering, reagent and buffer prep, maintaining sterile technique with meticulous attention to detail.

• Willingness to work with large and small research animals (mice, rats, rabbits), experience in area is preferred

• Basic science bench work experience, especially cell culture with asceptic technique

• Knowledge of how to use and maintain modern laboratory equipment including incubators, tissue culture hoods, centrifuges, balances, and pH meter.

• Mathematical skills to calculate chemical and biological concentrations in solutions.

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