| Job Description: |
Oversight of Lab Activities: Carries out specific lab management tasks geared toward maintaining the lab environment on a day-to-day basis. Handles lab documentation and management, including but not limited to supplies purchasing, lab organization, lab inventory management, and equipment training and handling and maintenance. Coordinates exchange of research materials with other laboratories and proper receiving, inventory, quality control testing, and quarantine of newly arriving research materials, as appropriate. Conducts lab housekeeping tasks (or supervises team members assigned to these tasks) such as routine autoclaving/sterilization and glassware.
Collecting & analyzing experimental data: Assists the lab with research sample collection including culture of microbial strains and maintenance of our bacterial collection. Assists lab members with laboratory procedures and experiments. Trains lab members on fundamental microbiological and molecular biology techniques. Assists with animal experiments including performing welfare checks on lab animals housed in ACS facilities, and performing routine research procedures on research animals. Remains current on required training, emerging techniques, software programs, and instrumentation in field of expertise. May perform independent experiments, data collection and analyze research data.
Laboratory Safety and Chemical Disposal: This individual will serve as a liaison between departmental laboratory personnel and the College of Engineering Health and Safety Officer as well as University of Florida Environmental Health and Safety officials. This individual will serve as the laboratory Blood Borne Pathogen and Biomedical Waste Manger and Chemical/Hazardous Waste Manager and will develop protocols to assist the lab with environmental and safety compliance. This includes, but is not limited to, completing annual training and providing training for lab personnel, maintaining personnel completion records and notifying applicable parties of course renewal requirements. This individual will assist the lab in preparing for and will escort college and university personnel on laboratory inspections and request laboratory space inspections as needed. This position will serve as the lab designee to conduct inspections and to ensure laboratory space is clean, organized, and items are disposed of thoroughly by proper methods. These items include chemicals, biohazards, and used equipment. Types of disposal include arranging for Hazardous Chemical Waste pickup, inactivation of liquid Biomedical Waste, and solid Biomedical Waste contained in red Biohazardous waste bags by autoclaving when applicable. Responsible for compliance with laboratory safety procedures, and maintenance of safe storage, use, disposal, and appropriate documentation of chemicals & biological materials.
Other duties as assigned: Performs other tasks as necessary under the direction of the lab’s Primary Investigator, Dr. Porras. This person may assist the lab in Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Animal Care Service (ACS) documentation and research, Institutional Review Board (IRB), or Institute Biosafety Committee (IBC), and as liaison for laboratory tours taken by IACUC, IRB, or IBC.
Schedule: M-F 9a-5p
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| Preferred Qualifications: |
- Previous experience with microbiological laboratory techniques such as plating and colony isolation, growth curve analysis, media preparation, cloning, and plasmid isolation, as well as general molecular biology techniques including DNA/RNA extraction, PCR, and gel electrophoresis
- Actively seeking to learn new lab skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Able to work well as part of a team and communicate effectively
- Able to seek out and receive constructive feedback
- Knowledge of basic lab safety procedures
- Ability to understand and interpret rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
- Ability to work independently
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| Special Instructions to Applicants: |
In order to be considered, please send application materials (CV including research experience, Cover Letter, and contact information for 2 professional references to Dr. Ana Porras at aporras@bme.ufl.edu. Applicants must upload a CV or resume and a cover letter describing past research experience, future career goals, and motivation/interest in this specific position at the Porras Tissue-Microbe Interactions Lab. For inquiries regarding the position, please contact Dr. Porras directly.
Applications must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.
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