Postdoctoral Associate
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Location: Houston, TX
- Job Number: 7126661 (Ref #: 14905-en_US)
- Posting Date: 3 months ago
- Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Summary
The postdoctoral associate will be in charge of their own research project that is relevant to the lab's studies on maternal diabetes, pancreatic cancer, and/or neural tube defects. This will likely be an offshoot of an extant lab member's project. They will work heavily with mice and/or cells, sequencing, bioinformatics, and microscopy, but in general will be independent in choosing the methods by which to perform their experiments. They will report weekly to the P.I. and about once a month to the lab on their progress towards their research goal(s).
Job Duties
- Performs in vivo and in vitro experiments.
- Maintains mouse colonies and/or cell lines.
- Conducts genotyping on mouse colonies and/or cell lines.
- Euthanizesmice.
- Collectsmurine tissues (including embryos) and performs murine surgery.
- Performs experiments with chick eggs are also possible.
- Uses cell and/or murine tissue for experiments.
- Processes collected murine tissues and/or cells.
- Performsimmunofluorescent staining on murine tissues and/or cells andperformsWestern blots on murine tissues and/or cells.
- Conductsimaging via fluorescence and/or confocal microscopy, sequencing murine tissues.
- Performsflow cytometry.
Minimum Qualifications
- MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
- No experience required.
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.
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