Position Summary:

• Performs scientific procedures in support of lab research, such as transfection, western blotting, animal dissection, immunostaining, and imaging.
• Performs technical tasks in support of lab research, such as making solutions, autoclaving glassware, and maintaining insect and/or bacterial and tissue cultures for experimental purposes.
• Performs administrative tasks in support of lab research, such as ordering, inventory, maintaining databases and acting as a point of contact for administrative issues.
• Provides routine technical support relative to scientific research work or projects of a laboratory and/or teaching program.
• Collects and completes basic preparation of samples and specimens.
• Performs standard and repetitive physical, chemical, and biological tests on materials, substances, and/or living subjects.
• Prepares media, substances, solutions, and reagents and performs related duties as required.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• High school/vocational school education or equivalent with coursework completed in the relevant science area(s).
• One year of research study experience.
• An equivalent amount of college-level study in an appropriate science curriculum may be substituted for the experience.

City: New Brunswick

State: NJ

Equipment Utilized:

• LiCor Odyssey imager

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Occasionally stoops and bends.
• Occasionally reaches and grasps with arms and hands.
• Work involves possible exposure to malodorous vapors, low dose radiation, contamination by toxic chemicals and acids and presence of carcinogenic substances.
• Work involves exposure to microbial organisms (BSL 1 only), Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), and tissue culture cell lines.
• Long periods of standing and/or sitting.
• Able to lift 30lbs.
• Regular workweek may include evening and/or weekend work.

Special Conditions:

• Clean Driving Record.

Posting Number: 23ST2309

About Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.

Connections working at Rutgers University