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Lab Technician

utah
Salt Lake City, USA
Full-time
Entry
Onsite
USD 19-21.63 yearly
Discovered 1 months ago

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  • Handle and train rats on complex cognitive tasks.
  • Design, build, and maintain custom behavioral rigs for rats, including integrating sensors, actuators, and control electronics.
  • Use maker tools (e.g., CAD design and 3D printing) to prototype and refine rig components.
  • Run daily behavioral sessions, meticulously collecting and organizing performance data.
  • Assist with and, following training, independently perform stereotaxic survival surgeries to implant microelectrode arrays and optic fibers.
  • Perform diligent post-operative care and monitoring to ensure animal welfare.
  • Conduct in vivo electrophysiology recording sessions from multiple brain regions in behaving animals.
  • Implement optogenetic protocols to precisely activate or inhibit neural populations during cognitive tasks.
  • Troubleshoot experimental hardware and software setups.
  • Assist with computational analysis by executing established data processing pipelines on newly collected datasets.
  • Perform data quality control checks to ensure integrity before advanced analysis.
  • Manage and curate large-scale neurophysiological and behavioral datasets, ensuring proper organization and documentation.
  • Generate standardized figures and summary reports for lab meetings using existing scripts.
  • Accomplish day-to-day care and housekeeping of the laboratory.
  • Maintain the rodent colony in accordance with all institutional and federal animal care guidelines.
  • Manage lab inventory, order supplies, and maintain equipment.
  • Prepare sterile surgical tools, solutions, and reagents.
  • Keep detailed and accurate experimental records in an electronic laboratory notebook.

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