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Laboratory Activities

• Performsstandard laboratory procedures such as maintaining cell cultures requiring theuse of sterile techniques, processing tissue samples and preparing slides usingstaining techniques.
• Maintainsanimal colonies, which include feeding, watering, sexing and breeding thesubjects.
• Operateslaboratory and experimental equipment such as microscopes, flow cytometers, Pcrmachines, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, analytical balances, photometers,spectrometers, metabolic carts and various pieces of exercise equipment forhuman test subjects.

Data Collection

• Collects andcompiles research data.
• Completes basiccalculations of test results.
• Handles allaspects of information intake from study subjects.
• Providesroutine and technical administrative support to research projects.
• Collectssamples or data and performs lab analysis and/or quantifies and tabulatesresults.
• Compiles dataand assists in routine preliminary analyses; maintains research data inlaboratory notebook, writes summary reports and reports findings to investigators.
• Assists withbasic mathematical and statistical analyses.
• Sets up andperforms a variety of lab or field tests and operations. Records results, makesobservations, analyzes data, and interprets test results.
• Refines,adapts, and develops procedures or techniques to fit specific experimentrequirements; modifies existing equipment or designs and fabricates requisiteequipment.
• Collaborates withthe development of new strategies, techniques and equipment.
• Participates inthe preparation of technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitativeresults.
• Coordinates theacquisition of lab supplies.
• Providesresearch administrative support including coordinating schedules, handlingintake, maintaining records and files.

Maintenance Activities

• Operates,maintains and troubleshoots scientific apparatuses, equipment and instruments.
• Provides basicinstruction to others on the use of this equipment.
• Organizessupplies, materials or equipment and sets up equipment for laboratoryexperiments or demonstrations; may perform minor equipment maintenance.
• Maintainsdetailed records of controlled substances in the laboratory; packages wastematerial and arranges for disposal according to established procedures.
• Cleansglassware and other laboratory equipment or materials using appropriatestandards; keeps laboratory area clean.
• Cleans,sterilizes, operates, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs equipment, machineryand instruments used for research.
• Orders labsupplies and maintains inventory.
• Assists inconducting routine laboratory research activities under general supervision,ensuring adherence to established protocols and procedures.
• Participates inthe calibration and validation of laboratory instruments to ensure accuracy andreliability in research applications.
• Maintainsdetailed records of experimental procedures, observations, results, and anydeviations from standard methodologies in accordance with standards.
• Maintainscleanliness and organization within the laboratory environment, ensuring allequipment and instruments are properly calibrated and functional.
• Performs avariety of laboratory or field tests and experiments following detailedprotocols.
• Sets upexperiments and tests.

Technical Activities

• Assists inperforming surgeries and dissections on animals which includes setting upequipment and supplies, preparing animals for surgery, anesthetizing andmonitoring heart rate of animals and harvesting tissue samples and readilyaccessible organs.
• Followsestablished procedures to prepare solutions, media and reagents usingarithmetical calculations for measuring; performs library research to findappropriate procedures, as required.
• Performsclerical tasks such as filing, typing, labeling and billing; inventories andrequisitions supplies and materials.
• Assists intraining Research/Laboratory Glassware Attendants and/or students working inthe laboratory.

Knowledge, Skillsand Abilities

• Knowledge ofmethods and analytical techniques used in both an exercise testing/physiologylaboratory and a biochemical laboratory. These include, but are not limited to,metabolic carts, cycling/treadmill ergometers, flow cytometers, cell culture, QRTPCR, murine husbandry, murine dissection and tissue processing,immunohistochemistry and spectrophotometry.
• Ability toeffectively communicate.
• Skill inrecording research data.