RESEARCH TECHNICIAN II
- Employer
- Duke University
- Location
- Durham, NC
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- Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
RESEARCH TECHNICIAN II
Biostat & Bioinformatics Chairs Office
Occupational Summary
Perform a variety of complex technical duties involved in conducting high-throughput genomics experiments to support research efforts in the Reddy Lab at Duke University. The work performed will be part of a large-scale collaborative project involving the Ciofani, Gersbach and Crawford labs also at Duke. The successful applicant will be under the direction and supervision of the postdoc leading the project and will report primarily to him. He/she will be given ample opportunities to further develop his/her independent research skills. Details of the Reddy Lab can be viewed at http://reddylab.org
Work Performed
Major tasks to be performed will include: the management of a mouse colony through breeding and genotyping; mouse handling and dissections to isolate primary cells; large scale primary culture using sterile technique; expansion and differentiation of cells in preparation of experiments; transfection of cells using both transient and viral approaches; characterization and purification of cells using magnetic and fluorescence assisted cell sorting; targeted genome and epigenome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 based tools; isolation of nucleic acids through chromatin immunoprecipitation, RNA and DNA purifications; generation of high-throughput sequencing libraries for genome wide analysis. Additional tasks relating to molecular biology will include growth and preparation of electrocompetent bacteria; cloning, transformation, and isolation of plasmid DNA from E. coli.
Perform routine laboratory tasks related to the above goals including preparation of reagent stocks, cell growth media, and buffers; ordering and stocking sufficient supplies and equipment for performing experiments; cleaning and maintain laboratory equipment.
Review results and quality control from completed experiments; record results in lab notebooks; communicate results in weekly update meetings with project leads. Option to contribute in weekly journal clubs and group meetings.
Perform other tasks and special projects as assigned.
Requisition Number
401524167
Location
Durham
Duke Entity
MEDICAL CENTER
Job Code
951 RESEARCH TECHNICIAN II
Job Family Level
08
Exempt/Non-Exempt
Non-exempt
Full Time / Part Time
FULL TIME
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Shift
First/Day
Minimum Qualifications
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employercommitted to providing employment opportunity without regard to anindividual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, genderidentity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex,sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation,creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robustexchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity ofour perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achievethis exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feelsecure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals arerespected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our communityhave a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System mayinclude essential job functions that require specific physical and/ormental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests forreasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Education
Work requires a bachelor's degree in botany, biology, zoology or otherscience related scientific field.
Experience
None required above education/training requirement.OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Auto req ID
107424BR
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
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Organization
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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