Technician IV - Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Provide complex technical lab support by performing a broad range of complex laboratory and research related tasks for a program and/or facility.

Develop and maintain complex laboratory records.

Conduct moderately complex technical research.

Prepare moderately complex stains, media, buffers, and reagents.

Prepare and maintain non-routine tissue and cell cultures for experimentation.

Perform a variety of moderately complex cell / tissue assays, culture preparation, and / or analyses.

Manipulate, compute, and analyze data using complex statistical computer software.

Perform a variety of tests requiring a high degree of proficiency including operating and / or maintaining lab equipment.

Provide and recommend care for research specimen and/or samples.

Troubleshoot equipment problems and recommend necessary repairs.

Build, modify, test, troubleshoot, and recommend solutions or repair equipment/apparatus or systems of considerable complexity.

Ensure all laboratory protocols and procedures adhere to disease control, radiation, and chemical safety requirements.

May ensure and/or prepare and label laboratory waste for disposal per protocols.

Contribute data and fact finding for inclusion to research reports / article for publication; may write and/or present report summary as requested.

Assist in evaluating nonstandard techniques and procedures based on established objectives; recommend modifications.

Set up complex equipment and materials for course and workshop instruction and provide training for laboratory techniques, instruments, methods and procedures.

Assist in scheduling, designing, and developing experiments and research projects; develop new experimental protocols as assigned.

Ensure the proper ordering of the inventory and supplies.

May act as team lead and oversee daily workloads.

Technician IV - Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Position Summary

The position is located within the department of Neurobiology and Behavior and the duties may include the following:

• Manipulate, compute, and analyze data using complex statistical computer software.
• Perform a variety of tests requiring a high degree of proficiency including operating and/or maintaining lab equipment.
• Provide and recommend care for research specimen and/or samples.
• Troubleshoot equipment problems and recommend necessary repairs.
• Build, modify, test, troubleshoot, and recommend solutions or repair equipment/apparatus or systems of considerable complexity.
• Ensure all laboratory protocols and procedures adhere to disease control, radiation, and chemical safety requirements.
• Ensure and/or prepare and label laboratory waste for disposal per protocols.
• Contribute data and fact finding for inclusion to research reports/articles for publication; may write and/or present report summaries as requested.
• Assist in evaluating nonstandard techniques and procedures based on established objectives; recommend modifications.
• Set up complex equipment and materials for course and workshop instruction and provide training for laboratory techniques, instruments, methods and procedures.
• Assist in scheduling, designing, and developing experiments and research projects; develop new experimental protocols as assigned.
• Ensure the proper ordering of the inventory and supplies.
• May act as a team lead and oversee daily workloads.
• Complete and coordinate training on lab safety and proper handling of chemicals as required by CALS EHS.

This is a full-time position at 97.50% FTE. This is a one-year term appointment that is contingent upon available work, funding, and performance.

The Technician IV will work in the Portugues lab, focusing on sensorimotor control in larval zebrafish, assisting with set-up in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. While position duties may vary, they may also include the following:

• General setting up of the laboratory space.
• Setting up of experimental rigs (behavior, microscopy, and electrophysiology).
• Care of fish lines: inventorying transgenic lines that are imported and ensuring their successful transition into the local facility.
• Helping to run behavioral experiments.
• Helping with the implementation and development of molecular biology procedures.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University's second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education, and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: We believe that achieving next-generation scientific breakthroughs requires an understanding of the world's complex, interlocking systems. We believe that access to nutritious food and a healthy environment is a fundamental human right. We believe that ensuring a prosperous global future depends on the ability to support local people and communities everywhere. By working in and across multiple scientific areas, CALS can address challenges and opportunities of the greatest relevance, here in New York, across the nation, and around the world.

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) has a distinguished faculty of 23 whose interests range from the intrinsic properties of neurons to the organization of animal societies. Research in the Department falls into five core areas: cellular and molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience, chemical ecology, and animal social behavior. Faculty members have integrative programs of research that span different levels of analysis. The Department is housed in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) with an overall budget of ~$9.3 million and sponsored activity of ~$3.4 million.

What We Need

• Bachelor's degree and 2 to 4 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination.
• Prior experience in a laboratory setting.
• Prior knowledge of safety protocols in a lab setting and proper waste handling.
• Experience with Microsoft office suite - including Word, PowerPoint and Excel and familiarity with outlook.
• Ability to communicate verbally and written with faculty, staff and students.
• Experience incorporating the perspectives of multiple communities.

If you have all those things, great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have, but it's ok if you don't.

• Experience in animal research.
• Strong interest in behavior and neurobiology.

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