Duke Hiring Biology Research Technician – Candidates Apply Online
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Job Title: Research Technician II
Requisition Number: 141229
Location: Durham, NC, US, 27710
Personnel Area: MEDICAL CENTER
Minimum Qualifications
Work generally requires a bachelor’s degree in botany, biology, zoology, psychology or other directly related scientific fields.
Experience
None required above education/training requirement. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Work Performed
- Perform a variety of complex technical duties involved in conducting physical, chemical, biological, and other research laboratory tests, experiments, and determinations to obtain data for research purposes; compile, analyze, document, and draw tentative conclusions from experimental results.
- Confer with principal investigator to review work assignments and develop plans for research experiments; make minor modifications to existing laboratory procedures and techniques to meet the needs of the particular equipment as required. Review laboratory methods manual, scientific journals, abstracts, and other literature for information applicable to research experiments.
Laboratory maintenance including the follow:
- Order and stock lab supplies
- Maintain laboratory equipment
- Maintain cleanliness and organization of the labs, including inventory
- Maintain chemical inventory and properly dispose of hazardous chemicals
- Process shared resource projects including the following:
- Sample handling including quantitation, quality assessment, and normalization
- Process Illumina microarrays for SNP genotyping and DNA methylation
- Process cells for single-cell sequencing
- Process tissue for spatial sequencing
Duke Hiring Biology Research
