General Description

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Establishes and implements robust core infrastructure aligned with institutional and departmental policies and regulations, to include:

o Manage and supervise operation of Mesoscale instrument and establish necessary controls for data entry into iLabs

o Ensuring satisfactory biospecimen collection, processing, freezer management and backup, and distribution of samples to the Lyme Center investigators and related JHU and external collaborators

o Coordinating database efforts to include management of retrospective and prospective bio specimen data entry and responsibility for inventory control systems

- Independently manage biorepository components of the Lyme Disease Research Center including current and future funding from Foundation and NIH grants

- Supervise technologist's blood sample processing from clinical specimens and performance of mesoscale and ELISA assays.

- Maintain systems for culture of Borrelia burgdorferi and isolation of bacteria for use in immunologic assays

Supervisory Responsibility:

- Directly responsible for 2 research technologists

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

- Master's or PhD (preferred) in Microbiology, Immunology or related field

- Two or moreyears of lab-related experience

- Experience in supervision or show potential/promise to do so

- Demonstrated ability via a significant graduate project or additional doctoral/post-doctoral training may substitute for experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

 

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

- Ability to implement and manage a wide range of laboratory procedures such as western blot, PCR, ELISA, and culture of microorganisms such as borrelia.

- Excellent communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including healthcare professionals and decision-makers

- Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, including clinicians and basicresearchers.

- Meticulous attention to detail to ensure the accuracy and reliability of specimen inventory system

- Strong ethical considerations, particularly regarding patient data privacy and the ethical use of data in medical research

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