The Research Specialist utilizes a solid foundation in research and experience with Flow cytometry-associated techniques experience to perform daily tasks associated with Flow core maintenance including reagent ordering, billing, and equipment maintenance and quality control. Will exercise independent judgment when working to set up and troubleshoot flow core new and existing equipment. Will provide training and work with users to develop and implement new flow cytometry-based assays. Will participate in core activities, including organization of technology seminars and internal informational meetings. Works closely with PI, and remains knowledgeable in area of research specialization. May prepare help prepare grant proposals, publications, and presentations.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provides flowcytometry-associated services to Flow cytometry core users, including sorting and analysis.
• Participates in all aspects of flow core daily maintenance (equipment QC, reagent stocking and ordering, troubleshooting, user training, policies enforcement, billing, development and implementation of protocols, including daily laboratory safety)
• Follows established procedures or protocols to perform laboratory tests and/or experiments, including sorting and analysis of biological samples • Provides technical expertise for equipment troubleshooting.
• Identify and resolve common problems involved in routine core maintenance
• Establishes and maintains relationships with users and manage sorters schedules to promote efficient utilization of flow core equipment
• Acts as a resource for users, providing technical advice for use of flow cytometry-based technology and analysis of flow cytometry data
• May train other individuals assigned to the core.
• Will train new users for equipment operation and observation of core policies
• Works with PI to organize technology seminars; may help with grant writing and flow core data presentation
• Capable of exercising independent judgment while setting up and troubleshooting core equipment
• Monitors inventory levels, orders materials and supplies in accordance with established policies and procedures. Operates lab computers for data entry and maintains accurate data records. • Uses various software applications, such as spreadsheets, electronic mail, in addition of different flow cytometry-based software
Qualification Requirements/Preferences: Education Certifications/Licensure Experience Physical Abilities Educational Requirements: BS/BA, or equivalent, in biological sciences or related discipline required. PhD in Biology or related field preferred.
Experience: Three to four (3-4) years’ experience in area of research specialty. Training and knowledge in the design and conduct of flow cytometry-based assays. Expertise in flow cytometry equipment. Ability to communicate scientific and technical information in the context of multidisciplinary teams. Must demonstrate excellent communication skills, written and verbal. Strong computer skills are essential.
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly comp...etitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
