at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 53730
Department: MED-Neuroscience
Salary/Grade: NEX/13
Target hiring range for this position will be between $23.20-$28.99 per hour. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job Summary:
The technologist will perform stereotaxic surgeries, including viral delivery and implantation of optical fibers, and will coordinate and execute longitudinal photometry recordings alongside behavioral assays. Responsibilities include maintaining animal cohorts, ensuring high-quality data acquisition, and performing initial data processing and analysis. The role will also involve optimizing and troubleshooting experimental protocols, contributing to data management and reproducible workflows, and integrating neural and behavioral datasets to support rigorous testing of circuit-level hypotheses.
Specific Responsibilities:
Histology:
- Tissue fixation/processing: embedding, preparation of blocks and sectioning, staining
- Immunohistochemistry
- Microscopy
Animal:
- Husbandry
- Breeding and screening transgenic mice
- Dissections
- Blood collection
- Surgical procedures
- Database management of colony
Other
- Neural recordings
- Animal behavior
Administration
- Observes experiments, collects, records, summarizes, analyzes and interprets research data.
- Collates relevant mathematical results.
- Prepares complex tables reflecting relationships of multiple tests.
- Draws scientific conclusions.
- Writes portions of grant applications.
