Lab Technician
Tulane University

Lab TechnicianBiochemistry and Molecular Biology

Location: New Orleans, LA

Summary

Assists senior members of the lab with the dissection and processing and staining of tissue, performs Western Blotting, and cell culture. Performs animal husbandry and genotyping of colony.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma
• One (1) year directly related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in x-ray crystallography
• Research experience in ligation independent molecular cloning, bacterial cell culture for protein over expression, cell lysis with French press and sonication, protein purification using Fast Performance Liquid chromatography, HPLC, protein crystallization using hanging and sitting drop vapor diffusion methods, diffraction data collection using synchrotron radiation and structure determination using CCP4 crystallographic suite and COOT
• Experience in enzymology analysis, cell cultures, protein-protein interaction assays using biophysical and biochemical tools,such as Biacor, SPR, ITC and GST-pull down analyses

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