at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 54178
Department: MED-Pharmacology
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:
This position will support a large grant focused on RNA biology and neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease. The project is highly collaborative and milestone-driven, involving coordinated work across laboratories, experimental models, molecular assays, mouse neuroscience, data sharing, and open-science deliverables. The Research Technologist 3 will provide senior technical support for mouse colony coordination, stereotaxic intracranial injections, sample processing, RNA-related molecular workflows, and data organization
Specific Responsibilities:
Molecular Biology:
- DNA, RNA, Protein isolation, purification and expression
- Southern, Northern, Western blotting
Cellular Biology:
- Cell culture, cell isolation
Histology:
- Tissue fixation/processing: embedding, preparation of blocks and sectioning, staining
- Animal:
- Husbandry
- Breeding and screening transgenic mice
- Dissections
- Blood collection
- Surgical procedures
- Database management of colony
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.
