Staff Research Associate II
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About The Position
The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UC Irvine Health School of Medicine is dedicated to the diagnosis and understanding of human diseases through biomedical and clinical research. The SRA will monitor and sample mice during the course of immunization, challenge and mating; perform immunological assays, including ELISA, Western blots, lymphoproliferative assays and FACS analyses; collection, processing and storage of vaginal cultures, blood and tissues for testing and the quantitation of C. trachomatis and C. muridarum from vaginal swabs. The SRA will daily monitor the health status of the mice following the immunization and the transcervical challenge. He/she will cage male and female mice and follow the course of the pregnancy by weighing the females. The SRA will help Drs. Pal and Slepenkin to euthanize pregnant mice and count the number of embryos. He/she will assist in the collection of the genital tracts of female mice to be processed. The SRA will maintain cell lines, grow the stocks of C. trachomatis and C. muridarum and will also help with the processing of native and recombinant MOMP.
