RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER - ASSISTANT
Location: Seattle, Washington
Description: University of Washington Medical Center is hiring RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER - ASSISTANT right now, this position will be situated in Washington. More complete informations about this position opportunity please read the description below. The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the m! ost important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences pursues a balanced commitment to knowledge discovery, teaching excellence, and high-quality clinical care by capitalizing on the resources of our vibrant academic and regional community. Our psychiatry residency and psychology internship programs, specialty fellowship programs, and post-doctoral research fellowships attract exceptionally talented individuals who are among the most academically competitive applicants in the country. The scale and diversity of our faculty and clinical sites, coupled with the richness of the UW academic community, the emphasis on evidenced based treatments, and the c! ulture of scientific inquiry allows us to provide comprehensiv! e, leading-edge clinical and research training experiences.
The Clark Lab in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant . The Clark Lab’s primary aim of research is to delineate the role of dopamine in motivated behavior with a special emphasis on the long-term effects of early life (adolescent) drug use on learning and decision making. Adolescent alcohol use is a major public health concern and is strongly correlated with the development of alcohol abuse problems in adulthood. The phasic activation of the neuromodulator dopamine is implicated in reward processing, decision making, and many aspects of drug abuse. Thus, we use a combination of experimental approaches, including in vivo fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, to examine the link between a history of alcohol use in adolescence, perturbation of dopamine systems, and deficits in decision making and learning that may represent v! ulnerabilities to the development of addictive disorders.
Responsibilities:
Lab Management
- Protocol updates and renewals
- Monthly mortality report
- Tracking and organizing training logs and records of lab members
- Lab orders and reconciliation with budget management
- Animal orders
- Waste management (sharps, chemical waste, lab glass)
- IACUC inspections and monthly PAMs
- DEA and DOH drug records and inspections
- EH&S regulations and inspections
- Training visiting scholars and new lab members
- Conducting experiments
- Intra-cranial surgery, alcohol administration, voltammetry and behavioral recording, animal euthanasia, histology, electrode construction
- Analysis of behavior and electrochemical data
Techniques
- Mandatory extensive rat handling experience
- Voltammetry electrode construction, surgical and recording proce! dures
- Perfusion and euthanasia
- Histology
- Analysis of neurochemical and behavioral data
- Experience managing a lab
- Conducted independent research projects
- Experience with IACUC, DEA, DOH and EH&S regulations and inspections
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Neurobiology or related field AND 1 year or more experience with behavioral experiments in freely-moving rats
Intracranial surgery, behavioral experiments in rats, neurophysiology data acquisition, lab management
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except where there are legal requirements such as license/certification/registration.
Desired:
In-vivo fast-scan cyclic voltammetry in freely moving rats
Condition of Employment:
Application Process:
Part of the applic! ation process for this position includes completing an on-line cover letter assessment as well as the Employment Eligibility Assessment to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. The assessment(s) will appear on your screen for you to complete as soon as you select "Apply to this Position" on this job announcement. Once you begin the assessment, it must be completed at that time. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until the assessment is complete.
Appointment to this position is contingent upon obtaining satisfactory results from a criminal background check.
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This position will be opened on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:20:17 GMT
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