Responsibilities

Lab Operations and Management

• Oversees and ensures that daily lab operations run smoothly, including manage purchasing, ordering supplies and repairs, organize and manage lab reagents.
• Works with PI as needed to help with scheduling, fiscal and personnel management.
• Serve as Human Resources liaison, working with HR.
• Serve as Safety Coordinator.
• Manage work orders with other campus facilities for standard maintenance and repair work.
• Oversee computer technical needs and the purchase of new computer equipment and software, working with CSS-IS&T.
• Manage and curate the cell line collection.
• Plan itinerary and other logistical needs for lab visitors.
• Enter purchases on website and submit approvals.
• Ensure adequate levels of all supplies are available.
• For special purchases, Obtain quotes and completing sole source justifications.

Safety and Compliance

• Prepare and update of Standard Operating Procedures and Biological Use Authorizations.
• Draft protocols and authorization paperwork.
• Safety Training of new hires and when additional training of lab members is requested.
• Lab Safety Inspection once a year.
• Communicate with EH&S, ACUC, OLAC about hazardous issue, inspections, training, addition and removal of lab members, help PI with updating the RUA, BUA and AUP.
• Update SOPs and ensure everyone doing the relevant experiments had read and signed.
• Report new and recurring hazards to lab members during lab meeting.

Research and Technical Support

• Carry out independent scientific work addressing neural plasticity.
• Contribute to the drafting of manuscripts and generation of figures.
• Manage the lab's mouse colony, including isolation of genomic DNA and genotyping cells by PCR.
• Assist lab members with their experiments in molecular biology and animal work.
• Perform cryosectioning, immunohistochemistry, PCR, cell cultures and rodent surgeries and behavior and make these available to the lab members.

Personnel Management

• Supervise work duties and ensure tasks are performed appropriately.
• Post hiring requests, interview, help select, and train staff.