Meyer Lab Technician

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UC Santa Cruz is a public university like no other in California, combining the experience of a small, liberal arts college with the depth and rigor of a major research university. It is known as an unconventional place where innovation and experimentation is part of the campus's DNA. That playful, bold spirit still thrives today, all on a campus renowned as among the most beautiful in the world.

The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, located in the Coastal Biology Building on the Coastal Science Campus, is a dynamic group comprised of instructional and research units and a variety of support programs and facilities with staff committed to providing excellent service to students, faculty and researchers. The department consists of 23 faculty, 6 adjunct professors, and many lecturers, postdocs, researchers, and other administrative and technical support staff.

Departmental resources for operations and research are among the highest in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.

The department has approximately 900 declared and proposed undergraduate students in four distinct programs and 90 graduate students working toward Ph.D. and master’s degrees. The department offers a significant number of courses (160 laboratory, seminar, and lecture courses with at least 200 secondary sections), many in support of other majors, serving as many as 11,000 enrollments each year. The department is closely aligned with the research and faculty in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Environmental Studies, and Ocean Sciences as well as outside agencies NOAA, NMFS, MBARI, California Academy of Sciences, and others.

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The CALeDNA () citizen science environmental DNA program is conducting research projects with the National Park Service and other natural areas managers to identify and map biodiversity across the country. The full‑time Lab Assistant assists with research projects, generates environmental DNA data, and learns and participates in analyses and writing. The Lab Assistant will also be the safety captain and manage frozen environmental sample collections as research resources.

Occasionally, the Lab Assistant will work with other members of the UCSC Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department for cross‑training and to help each other, and will attend professional development activities.

We are looking for someone who wants to go into molecular evolution or ecology research and build experience that will help them prepare for graduate school, natural resource management, industry, or not‑for‑profit research. The incumbent will be working on a very special project with the National Park Service to help them detect aquatic invasive species from eDNA. For this project, responsibilities include sequencing and assembling organellar genomes from plants and animals, and designing qPCR primers for eDNA surveillance.

Under the supervision by Rachel Meyer, the incumbent will serve as a member of a research team collecting environmental DNA for biodiversity, ecology, and earth science topics. The incumbent will help maintain the laboratory, help to train new researchers and visiting…