Position overview Position title: Specialist Salary range: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and based on UC Berkeley Specialist series salary scale Percent time: 100% Anticipated start: Summer 2022 Position duration: One year with the possibility of extension based on performance and availability of funding. Application Window
Open date: March 18th, 2022
Next review date: Friday, Apr 1, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Sunday, Apr 17, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a Specialist in the rank of Jr. or Assistant Specialist to investigate how gene expression regulation drives the process of meiosis. The position is within the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, world-renowned for major discoveries in biology and promoting and supporting diversity, inclusion, and belonging in education. This position reports to Professor Gloria Brar.
The Brar lab uses a combination of systems biology, genetics, and cell biology to uncover basic principles in gene expression regulation. We focus on meiosis, the conserved process by which gametes are made and a highly dynamic differentiation program. In this position, you would assist graduate students on a project aimed at understanding how gene expression changes drive changes to meiotic cells. We primarily use budding yeast as a model system, leveraging its high synchrony of meiotic progression, which is unparalleled. As a Specialist in the Brar lab, you would join the Brn lab team, a highly inclusive and collaborative environment.
The Specialist will perform a variety of methods, including those listed below:

• yeast cell culture, transformation, growth assays
• meiotic timecourses
• immunofluorescence, western blotting, qPCR
• bacterial transformation, bacterial growth, plasmid purification, restriction enzyme digestion for analytical and cloning purposes, agarose gel purification of restricted bands, ligation of DNA fragments.
• Independently design cloning strategies and troubleshoot cloning projects including the capacity to validate proper cloning.

This position will be expected to assess, plan and carry out such activities, and as such it is ideal if they have experience in these areas.
Detailed records of experiments performed, conclusions made, and communication of results orally and through lab notebook records are necessary. Daily record keeping in laboratory notebook (including the generation of written protocols for new assays learned), graphing cumulative data generated interpretation of data and drawing conclusions preparation for presentation at lab meetings. Attendance at weekly lab meetings. Background reading/research necessary to understand projects.
The Specialist will need to work collaboratively, learning and sharing techniques and knowledge with other members of the research team. They will also need to organize and perform several experiments in parallel on the same day.
This position provides full benefits.
University of California Academic Researchers are exclusively represented by the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).
The department is interested in candidates who will contribute to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Lab : http://www.brarlab.org
Contract : https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/ra/contract.html
Union : https://uaw5810.org/
Qualifications Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent international degree.
Preferred qualifications
A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) in cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, or a related field.
Excellent communication skills.
Experience in planning experiments, documenting and communicating data, and trouble-shooting protocols.
Experience in new protocol development is a plus, as is experience in the meiosis, yeast, or gene expression fields.
Application Requirements Document requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Statement of Research (Optional)
Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion if hired at Berkeley (for additional information go to https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversity ).
(Optional)
Reference requirements
2-3 required (contact information only) Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03409
Help contact: gabrar@berkeley.edu
Campus Information
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are core values at UC Berkeley. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and academic and non-academic staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our academic positions will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging.
The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct
In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality ( http://apo.berkeley.edu/ucb-confidentiality-policy ) prior to submitting their letter.
As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/SARS-CoV-2_Covid-19 . All Covered Individuals under the policy must provide proof of Full Vaccination or, if applicable, submit a request for Exception (based on Medical Exemption, Disability, and/or Religious Objection) or Deferral (based on pregnancy) no later than the applicable deadline. For new University of California employees, the applicable deadline is eight weeks after their first date of employment. (Capitalized terms in this paragraph are defined in the policy.)
Job location Berkeley, CA
To apply, visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03409
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