Student Employee - Nutrition Research Assistant - Fall 2026

UCM • UCMO - Warrensburg, MO

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About The Position

Student research assistant is needed to assist Dr. Penumetcha to establish cell culture and molecular techniques to develop laboratory methods in the area of Nutritional Genomics/Precision Nutrition.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in Biology/Chemistry
• Enrolled in a graduate degree at UCM
• Biology lab experience as an undergraduate or a research assistant
• Computer skills: Word-Processing, Working knowledge of Excel/Sheets Science presentation tools, NCBI exploration

Responsibilities

• Establishing a cell culture
• Learning and using molecular and genomic techniques such as isolation of RNA and DNA qRT-PCR DNA sequencing, gel electrophoresis, Western blotting etc.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability
• 3 weeks paid vacation per year
• 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year
• 13 paid holidays
• retirement
• generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern