Staff Associate I

The Division of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center is seeking candidates for a Staff Associate I position. The selected candidate will conduct laboratory experiments, provide molecular biology bench support and animal colony/genotyping support, and assist the lab team in experiments. The Staff Associate I will assist with ongoing behavioral studies, perform basic molecular biology studies, maintain laboratory supplies, and as needed may perform routine molecular assays (e.g., transformation, miniprep, maxiprep, RNA, DNA and protein preparation, cDNA synthesis, qRT-PCR, transfection, packaging of viral vectors), as well as assist in other lab team efforts (e.g., preparation of animal models for experiments and surgeries). The Staff Associate I will coordinate lab ordering, maintain general lab supplies and inventories, assist in the preparation of IACUC protocols, perform mouse genotyping and colony maintenance, and manage the pick-up of chemical wastes.