Research Associate—Immunology Center of Georgia
Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia, USA
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Augusta University is Georgia’s innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia’s cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences. Augusta is home to Georgia’s only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.
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College/Department Information
The Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG) represents a new initiative by the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University to leverage the ability of the immune system to combat disease. The IMMCG will accomplish this by assembling teams of biomedical researchers with strong records of scientific innovation and technological development. The IMMCG will be co-directed by world-class immunologists Drs. Catherine “Lynn” Hedrick and Klaus Ley, both of whom have made major discoveries linking immune cells to specific mechanisms of disease. The goal of the IMMCG is to produce novel and effective treatments for conditions that heavily impact the communities of Georgia and the United States. The new center is aggressively recruiting faculty and staff to lead projects focused on cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic disorders, autoimmune and infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer.
Job Summary
The primary responsibilities of this position include mouse colony management and care tasks such as weaning, breeding, clipping, PCR genotyping, and record keeping. The employee will also assist with administrative tasks such as ordering, invoice management, and maintaining stocks relevant to mice (for example, Western diet). After receiving training, the employee will work under minimal supervision on a day-to-day basis and will be capable of managing his or her own duties and research efforts effectively.
Responsibilities
The duties include, but are not limited to:
- Manage animal colony through breeding and weaning; avoid overcrowded cage penalties.
- Maintain cage cards, animal histories, and other records as required.
- Collect tail clippings from mice and prepare for shipping twice a week.
- Enter and track genotyping results.
- Observe animals on a daily basis to assess health, environmental conditions, and social environment.
- Perform pinning and surgeries as needed.
- Generate reports on specific mouse lines. Design new mouse lines (genetics).
- Place mouse orders. Receive new mice into database. Manage mouse colony management software.
- Administer special diets.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by P.I.
Learn more and apply: https://augusta.edu/jobs?id=269644
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