TES Lab Assistant

The Kroeger Lab is seeking a detail-oriented individual to support daily laboratory operations, assisting in planning, maintaining or completing research programs and/or projects.

Responsibilities

• Performs mouse colony management
• Performs mouse genotyping on various transgenic strains
• Harvests mouse brain tissue and perform histological processing and analysis
• Record and analyze data from behavioral experiments with mice, such as analyzing sleep/wake states based on EEG data
• Assists with running behavioral experiments with mice, such as the Morris Water maze or Object Recognition test
• Maintains lab routines and ordering supplies
• Prepares data and graphs for presentation
• Assists in the development of research proposals, plans and protocols
• Conducts routine or fundamental experiments, investigations and/or studies related to programs and projects in pursuit of new knowledge, techniques and concepts
• May instruct students and/or supervise others' research in area of expertise

Qualifications

Basic familiarity in laboratory functions.