Research Technician - MCG-Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine

Job Summary

Assist research involving transgenic mouse models to study Alzheimer's disease, neuropsychiatric conditions, and microbiome interactions.

Responsibilities

The duties include but are not limited to:

ASSIST RESEARCH: Assist research involving transgenic mouse models to study Alzheimer's disease, neuropsychiatric conditions, and microbiome interactions (e.g., feeding special diets, administrating pharmacological drugs to mice; weighting mice; animal behavior tests) Collect specimens (e.g., brain, fecal samples) and maintain the organized sample collection and processing logs. Assist sample processing by microtome/cryostat sectioning.

MAINTAIN MOUSE COLONY: Assist and maintain mouse breeding colonies and genotyping.

PERFORM EXPERIMENTS: Perform molecular biology experiments such as qRT-PCR, ELISA, western blotting, microscopic, and statistical analysis. Will perform other duties as assigned.

OTHER: Perform all other duties as assigned