Research Technician - Philpot

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We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

We prepare tomorrow's healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The Philpot laboratory develops therapeutics for single gene disorders. We are seeking a research technician to perform research tasks in the lab as well as help with lab management duties. Research tasks will include performing mouse behavioral experiments, mouse colony organization and breeding, histological assays (e.g. immunocytochemistry), confocal microscopy, tissue collections and processing (dissections, sectioning, immunohistochemistry), and data analysis. This position will require animal handling.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

• Prior laboratory experience in a related field such as Microscopy, Immunohistochemistry or Genotyping
• Understanding of rodent behavior
• Basic understanding of neuroscience

This position will require animal handling.

• Must be able to stand up to 6 hours/day
• Must be able to move up to 50 pounds
• Must be able to climb a step ladder

Duties to be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

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