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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, organize, manage, and carry out analytical techniques and subsequent analysis to drive the PI's research. Design research methods in collaboration with senior researchers in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM). Work with researchers to identify and recommend solutions to problems.  
• Use analyzed data to prepare research reports. 
• Perform protein expression using gel electrophoresis, western blot, enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) recombinant protein expression.
• Carry out specialized techniques including super-resolution microscopy, electron microscopy and immune hybridization. Study organoid properties from the whole mount level to the single cell level utilizing techniques such as whole muscle testing and permeabilized fiber testing.
• Assist and train PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to perform and design experiments and on the various techniques utilized in the lab. Direct and assist staff research technicians.
• Perform bench research including western blotting, RTPCR, extensive cell culture (including generation of primary cultures from patient samples), cell biological assays, and microscopy.
• Prepare buffers and reagents.
• Design and carry out single-cell imaging assays.
• Improve upon current image analysis techniques.
• Generate live-cell image analysis and collaborate with the UA Nikon center for excellence image analysis group.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 

• Willingness to learn new imaging and image analysis modalities.
• Ability to keep protocols, data, and samples organized with clear documentation recording how experiments were performed to ensure rigor and reproducibility.
• Ability to effectively communicate with professionalism with immediate peers within assigned work group and facilitate interaction and information exchange with other work groups as required to perform role. Based on nature of the role, employee may field requests from others in the organization.
• High organization skills.

• Three (3) years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• High school diploma or equivalent, or equivalent learning attained through experience required.