Research Technologist, Life Sciences & Microbiome

Penn State University; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn State University’s Bordenstein Laboratory seeks a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, analyze, and report rigorous research on host–microbe symbioses and microbiome sciences. The role emphasizes Drosophila transgenic expression, genetic editing, fitness assays, dissections, and microscopy.

Responsibilities include independent experimental design, protocol development, data analysis, and coauthoring papers, grants, and presentations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience accepted.
• Required Certifications: None

Responsibilities

• Independent experimental design, implementation, analysis, time management, and reporting.
• Preparation and adherence to new scientific protocols, specimen evaluation, and biostatistics.
• Coauthorship of scientific papers, grants, presentations, and summary reports.
• Contribution to research methods, solutions, and technical approaches for problem solving.
• Data collection, data analysis, statistics, and visualizations.
• Management of trainees for molecular biology skills, biosafety measures, lab policies, equipment, proper record keeping, organismal maintenance, and performance review.
• Various experimental tasks including insect handling, tissue dissections, staining, fluorescent microscopy, microinjections, protein biology, biochemistry, and genotyping/qPCR.

Skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Team management

Data collection

Data analysis

Statistics

Visualization

Education

Bachelor's Degree

3+ years of relevant experience

Tools

PCR

qPCR

Job description

Penn State University’s Bordenstein Laboratory seeks a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, analyze, and report rigorous research on host–microbe symbioses and microbiome sciences. The role emphasizes Drosophila transgenic expression, genetic editing, fitness assays, dissections, and microscopy.

Responsibilities include independent experimental design, protocol development, data analysis, and coauthoring papers, grants, and presentations.