Graduate Student Employee Biweekly - BSB MBC Assistant Graduate Student Employee - BC
About The Position
The graduate student position will learn how to operate and maintain complex scientific instruments, how to communicate with and educate students, how to solve technical and interpersonal problems, and to give feedback to and effectively communicate with students and faculty. This requires strong attention to details skills, strong professional communication skills in various training, teaching, and corrective situations. The position also requires a high research instrument knowledge and some experience in working with them. This is needed to support the daily operations of the MBC by assisting Dr. Nemec in training researchers on the proper use of the autoclaves as well as the molecular imagers and analyzers, including the BioRad Gel Doc and BioRad ChemiDoc molecular imagers, Cytiva Typhoon multi-mode imager, and the QuantStudio6 QPCR. The graduate would also maintain the BSL2 shared cell culture facilities including scheduled decontamination and assist in training researchers in proper techniques. The graduate would perform ongoing maintenance and calibrations of highly specialized equipment such as the Northern Lights flow cytometer and the FACSMelody and Sony cell sorters, and help to ensure the main lab spaces are clean and organized. Working with the Dr Nemec, the graduate would assist in designing/redesigning and drafting training modules for researchers in the MBC. The student would also participate and possibly lead classes that are held within the MBC (Christie Sayes: Laboratory Methods in Environmental Sciences ENV 3188) and tours in the MBC.
Requirements
- Strong attention to detail skills.
- Strong professional communication skills in various training, teaching, and corrective situations.
- High research instrument knowledge.
- Some experience in working with research instruments.
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain complex scientific instruments.
- Communicate with and educate students.
- Solve technical and interpersonal problems.
- Give feedback to and effectively communicate with students and faculty.
- Train researchers on the proper use of autoclaves, molecular imagers, and analyzers (BioRad Gel Doc, BioRad ChemiDoc, Cytiva Typhoon, QuantStudio6 QPCR).
- Maintain BSL2 shared cell culture facilities, including scheduled decontamination.
- Assist in training researchers in proper cell culture techniques.
- Perform ongoing maintenance and calibrations of specialized equipment (Northern Lights flow cytometer, FACSMelody and Sony cell sorters).
- Ensure main lab spaces are clean and organized.
- Assist in designing/redesigning and drafting training modules for researchers.
- Participate and possibly lead classes held within the MBC (Laboratory Methods in Environmental Sciences ENV 3188).
- Participate in tours in the MBC.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
