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Job Title:SP - Research Assistant

Department:Neuroscience

Location:Farmington

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Search #:2023-264

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Recruiter:Rucker, Pamela S.

At UConn Health, the Neuroscience Department in the School of Medicine seeks to fill a Special Payroll Research Assistant position. The successful candidate will work on a project focused on studying skeletal growth and development using mouse models and cell culture systems.

 

Examples of Duties:

Harvesting tissues for primary cell cultures

Cell culture growth and differentiation assays

Assisting the PI and lab staff with histology and molecular biology experiments, data analysis and general lab management

 

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology or related area of study

Basic laboratory instrumentation skills

Maintains a high degree of organization, accuracy and attention to details

Good communication skills both orally and written

Ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret data.

 

Preferred Qualification:

Prior experience in cell culture and knowledge of sterile techniques

 

Schedule: 40 hours per week, days and time to be determine

**********Duration of position is 12 months********** 

Hourly Rate: $15.00

 

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.

UConn Health is an affirmative action employer, in addition to an EEO and M/F/V/PWD/PV employer.

All employees are subject to adherence to the State Code of Ethics which may be found at www.ethics.state.ct.us 

All Workforce Members are required to have or obtain a COVID 19 vaccination as a term and condition of employment to work in a UConn Health facility, unless an exemption or deferral has been approved. All new Workforce Members shall be required to provide proof of their vaccine status prior to the start of their employment. All records of vaccinations and approved exemptions will be maintained by Employee Health Services. Additional information regarding this policy may be found at https://health.uconn.edu/covid-provider/mandatory-vaccination/ 

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