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Associate Specialist
Department of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco

The Department of Physiology is now recruiting an Associate Specialist. The area of specialization/responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate mouse research by:

  • instructing research staff on how to maintain IACUC compliance
  • helping to prepare IACUC protocol submission and modifications and plan experimental design
  • managing a large rodent colony, including genotyping
  • training staff to perform stereotaxic surgeries
  • maintaining necessary documentation of procedures and surgeries conducted in the lab
  • Coordination of animal purchases, transfers, imports and exports including MTAs

• Assure chemical and biohazard safety by:

  • conducting safety training for new lab members
  • maintaining chemical inventory and updating control banded SOPs.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent degree) or five to ten years of experience in the relevant specialization.
• Contributes to published research and trains lab members in technical skills related to animal survival surgery.
• Experience maintaining a large rodent colony, ensuring regulatory compliance with IACUC, and drafting animal use protocols.
• Experience using and maintaining specialized equipment, managing asset inventory.
• Candidates' CV must state required qualifications at the time of appointment.
  
• Candidate’s CV must state qualifications (or if pending) upon submission.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post-graduate training or equivalent of 10 years' experience preferred.

• Experimental skills:

  • intracranial viral injection
  • intracranial microendoscope and canula implantation
  • primary neuronal cell culture - cryosectioning, histology and immunostaining techniques
  • rodent tattooing and equipment maintenance
  • rodent tissue collection and DNA extraction

Please apply online at https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05567, with a CV, three references.

See Table 24B for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimate for this position is $73,000-$85,000.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.
• “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
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