Associate Scientist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific area.
• Research experience requirements vary by education: 7 or more years with a bachelor’s degree; 5 or more years with a master’s degree; or 2 or more years with a Ph.D.
• Proven performance in an earlier or comparable role.
• Interested candidates must submit a cover letter outlining research background, leadership and in vivo workflow experience, and career goals.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading and supporting research experiments.
• Some experience leading laboratory and scientific project coordination, maintenance, and other research support activities.
• Experience guiding and training other laboratory personnel.
• Experience with anaerobic bacteriology, culturomics, mucosal immunology assays, or basic computational workflows for microbiome analysis using R or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate in vivo experiments using germ-free, gnotobiotic (isolator and IVC systems), and conventional colonies, including infectious challenges, oral gavages, colonized consortia studies, and tissue harvests.
• Independently design, perform, optimize, and troubleshoot complex experiments in molecular biology, anaerobic bacteriology, culturomics, and microbial genetics.
• Coordinate day-to-day laboratory operations, including purchasing reagents and consumables, maintaining vendor relations, overseeing equipment maintenance and calibration, and writing or updating SOPs, biosafety protocols, and IACUC amendments.
• Process, organize, and rigorously analyze experimental data.
• Lead or substantially contribute to drafting, editing, and revising manuscripts, figures, grant applications, and progress reports.
• Provide technical guidance, protocol training, and day-to-day support to junior laboratory members, rotation graduate students, and research technologists.