Temporary Transgenic Mouse Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Salary Range: USD $16.00/Hr. - USD $20.00/Hr.

Job Type: Temporary

Department: Anatomy Physiol & Pharmacol

Associated Division: College of Veterinary Medicine

Req ID: 9048

Overview

The Kroeger Lab is seeking a detail-oriented individual to support daily laboratory operations, assisting in planning, maintaining or completing research programs and/or projects.

Temporary Employment Services (TES), a unit of the Auburn University Department of Human Resources, is an in-house support center established to meet the temporary employment needs of the university. TES provides qualified and dedicated temporary employees in a wide variety of occupations to meet the staffing needs throughout the campus. Temporary employees are hired for a variety of reasons with the most common being:

• Assistance in the place of a regular employee who is absent for a specified period of time
• Additional assistance during periods of abnormal or peak workloads
• Assistance with special projects
• Seasonal work
• Emergencies

If you are looking for an employment opportunity, TES is a great way to showcase your professional skills and assist Auburn University while gaining valuable work experience within higher education.

AU students are not eligible for TES .

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include:

• Performs mouse colony management
• Performs mouse genotyping on various transgenic strains
• Harvests mouse brain tissue and perform histological processing and analysis
• Record and analyze data from behavioral experiments with mice, such as analyzing sleep/wake states based onEEGdata
• Assists with running behavioral experiments with mice, such as the Morris Water maze or Object Recognition test
• Maintains lab routines and ordering supplies
• Prepares data and graphs for presentation
• Assists in the development of research proposals, plans and protocols
• Conducts routine or fundamental experiments, investigations and/or studies related to programs and projects in pursuit of new knowledge, techniques and concepts
• May instruct students and/or supervise others' research in area of expertise

Qualifications

Basic familiarity in laboratory functions.

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