Research Support Specialist

Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):
Bachelor's degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in biology or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience performing routine molecular biology procedures, including but not limited to PCR, cell culture and/or isolation of cells from tissues. Experience maintaining transgenic mouse lines (e.g., blood collection, genotype PCR). Laboratory management experience (ordering, aliquoting, organization, etc).

Brief Description of Duties:
We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate candidate to work in hematology, cardiology, and immunology research. For more details, see our lab website: https://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/medicine/hematology/faculty/zhan-lab. This position will provide unique training experience in both in vitro and in vivo assay systems to study normal and neoplastic hematopoiesis, cardiovascular diseases, and immune modulation. There will also be opportunities for career development training and mentorship to help the candidate progress to a career in biomedical sciences.

Duties:

• Perform cell culture studies, DNA and RNA purification, PCR, western blotting, flow cytometry and data analysis.
• Manage transgenic mice colonies.
• Assist with lab organization, order lab supplies and maintain supply inventory.
• Other duties as assigned.

Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.

For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.

Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.

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The starting salary range (or hiring range) to be offered for this position is noted below, it represents SBU's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.