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At UConn Health, the Spellman Laboratory in the Neuroscience Department is looking to hire a Research Technician to assist in ongoing projects relevant to cognition research.Our work focuses on finding cell types and neural circuits that drive processes like attention, dynamic decision-making, working memory, and abstract or contextual learning.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Works under the limited supervision of the research project's primary investigator.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED:
Industry-leading health insurance options and affordability
Generous vacation and sick-time plans
Multi-channel retirement options (pension and match options)
Tuition waiver and reimbursement for employees and qualified family members
Quick commute access from I-84, Rte 9 and surrounding areas
State of the art facility and campus environments
Progressive leadership and educational development programs available
SCHEDULE: 40 hours per week, Mon - Fri, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm with a 30 minte unpaid mealbreak
EXAMPLE OFDUTIES:
- Ordering lab supplies and keeping the lab stocked
- Maintaining genetic mouse lines (genotyping, crossing, etc)
- Carrying out rodent behavioral experiments
- Rodent stereotaxic surgeries
- Performing 2-photon in vivo imaging
- Analysis of behavioral and neural data.
and procedures; ability to perform simple calculations and keep simple technical records.
EXPERIENCE & TRAINING:
High School diploma or equivalent.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
Incumbents in this class may be required to undergo periodic tests or immunizations for communicable diseases. Person uncomfortable with mice or blood work should avoid applying.
Applicants must have at least 12 months full-time experience working in rodent research.
Applicants must have experience performing rodent survival surgeries, cryosectioning, histology, 2-photon microscopy, and conducting rodent cognition and behavioral testing.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Incumbents in this class may be occasionally required to lift heavy objects such as standard laboratory equipment and/or trays/boxes or glassware; may be exposed to such hazards as broken glass, toxic vapor radioactive materials, and toxic or disease carrying substances.
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
