Research Laboratory Supervisor

University of New Hampshire

1d•$43,710 - $77,920

About The Position

The Research Laboratory Supervisor oversees laboratory and field activities for the EMBEDDEd-NH project. The role is responsible for ordering, inventorying, organizing, using, and deploying project consumables and equipment. It supervises molecular laboratory work for project-collected ticks, field collection, and environmental ecological analyses, and provides technical troubleshooting for molecular laboratory work and environmental engineering equipment use, maintenance, and oversight. Additional work includes geospatial analyses and assessment of environmental contaminant distribution. The position is not required to work during curtailment. Continued employment is contingent on the availability of external sponsor funding; if that funding is reduced or discontinued, employment may be modified or terminated in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree with at least 7 years of molecular laboratory experience.
Experience extracting nucleic acids from varied substrates.
Experience running, establishing, and troubleshooting PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, metabarcoding, and RT-PCR.
GIS fluency, including mapping and analyses.
Environmental engineering experience.
Experience assembling, maintaining, and troubleshooting technical laboratory and field equipment.
Experience supervising undergraduate and graduate students.
Knowledge of nucleic acid extraction and quality analysis and validation.
Knowledge of PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, and metabarcoding.
Knowledge of statistical analysis.
Knowledge of environmental engineering and equipment deployment and maintenance.
Knowledge of student supervision.
Experience or knowledge in assay assessment and verification.
Research design.
Laboratory and field equipment customization and fabrication.

Responsibilities

Inventory consumable stocks and place orders.
Use, monitor, and maintain equipment.
Organize laboratory workflows and metadata and pre-analytical data.
Supervise and perform substrate characterization, extraction, cataloguing, and biobanking.
Conduct extractions and laboratory experiments and prepare materials for sequencing.
Annotate and supervise data recording.
Order, set up, deploy, supervise, and maintain field equipment.
Supervise and conduct fieldwork, including tick dragging, HOBO station setup and maintenance, and collection box setup.
Curate, validate, maintain, and integrate metadata, field data, laboratory data, and sequence data.
Present and analyze data and assimilate geospatial data.