Laboratory Assistant
Laboratory Assistant
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Job Description
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Laboratory Assistant for the Brain Health Institute within Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ). The primary purpose of the Laboratory Assistant is to conduct behavioral experiments in Gerbils to study the influence of early and adult auditory and visual sensory experience on brain development and associative learning and adeno-associated virus gene therapy interventions to prevent hearing visual and vestibular dysfunction. interventions to prevent hearing and vestibular dysfunction. Among the key duties of this position are the following: Maintains animal colony carry out animal husbandry and post-operative care maintain records and carries out auditory visual and vestibular physiological recordings. Trains animals and run behavioral experiments to assess associative and perceptual learning in Gerbils. Carries out post-experiment processing of brain tissue (histology). Assists with microscopy and anatomical analysis of processed brain tissue. Performs auditory (e.g. earplugging) and visual (e.g. eye opening) manipulations in neonates (noise/light exposure) and adults (noise exposure/drug exposure).s Maintains accurate records of experimentation and research assist with data entry and analysis.
Overview
New Jerseys academic health center Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ) takes an integrated approach to educating students providing clinical care and conducting research all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick and collaborating university wide RBHS includes eight schools a behavioral health network and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research neuroscience advanced biotechnology and medicine environmental and occupational health and health care policy and aging research. Our faculty are teachers clinicians and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine dentistry pharmacy public health nursing biomedical research and the full spectrum of allied health careers. Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the stateat Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark Scotch Plains Somerset Stratford and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick Newarks University Hospital in Newark and other affiliates. Through this community of healers scientists and scholars Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
Preferred Qualifications
Associates degree in a relevant scientific field: psychology biology neuroscience or other related field.
Employment Type
Full-Time
