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Laboratory and Research Technician
The Myles H. Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retrovirus Research within the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is seeking a Laboratory Technician to work on projects investigating post-transcriptional gene regulation in mammalian cells and viruses.
Lab and Research Technician 1 employees focus on performing routine research tasks and developing skills. They assume routine to moderately complex technical support for research projects. Work is routine and can be performed with some degree of independence when following established protocols and procedures. Lab and Research Technician 1 employees perform tasks as assigned by supervisor.
Under the supervision of Drs. Marie- Louise Hammarskjold and David Rekosh, the incumbent will participate in laboratory projects involving a combination of microbiology, cell biology, molecular biology, microscopy and small animals (mice) techniques. Research activity conducted includes, but is not limited to, maintenance of eukaryotic cell lines, general molecular biology techniques (cloning and sequence analysis, immuno-precipitation, RNA purification and western-blot), image acquisition of retroviral transduced cells by standard and confocal microscopy, analysis of RNASeq experiments and small animal (mice) handling.