Job Description
Summary
We seek a Research Associate who will work to discover how neurons interact with diverse brain cell types to drive neural development and neural disease outcomes in mouse models.
Job Duties
- Demonstrate Intellectual leadership on a project, look at literature, define knowledge gaps, and dictate research direction.
- Act as a project manager for trainees/technician's projects to ensure timely delivery of expected products by each team member.
- Assist and oversee the completion of laboratory projects and cover projects with leadership gaps to ensure that that data are completed to the point of publication.
- Oversee the usage of advance imaging equipment.
- Assist in data generation using the following techniques, tissue preparation and histology, animal surgeries, in vivo electroporation, and mouse genetic model design and implementation.
- Provide expertise in neuroscience and other specialized areas as dictated by individual projects.
- Train all team members in the lab techniques and design and implementation of new imaging systems, online data repositories.
- Provide support in paper and grant writing.
- Assist in evaluation of the performance of all team members to ensure that competency in each skill area noted above is achieved.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree in Basic Science or a related field. Experience in lieu of degree will not be accepted.
- Three years of relevant experience typically as a Research Assistant, Research Technician or Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate.
Job Specific Requirements
- MS or PhD degree in Neuroscience, Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, or a related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in mouse models, brain histology and analysis, confocal imaging, animal surgeries, molecular biology, proteomics, RNA-seq, immunoblot, lab organization, project management, paper writing, and grant writing
- Experience with nanoscope and high resolution imaging approaches
- Experience with mouse genetic models of neural development and diseases
- Experience leading teams to completion of publication
- Experience with successful grant applications
Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.
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