KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Senior Lab Technician

Job id: 087925. Wage: £37,332 – £42,099 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 15 Could 2024. Deadline: 29 Could 2024.

Enterprise unit: IoPPN. Division: Developmental Neurobiology.

Contact particulars: Adil Khan. khan.adil@kcl.ac.uk

Location: Man’s Campus. Class: Skilled & Assist Providers.

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Job description

Purposes are invited for a Lab Technician positions funded by the Wellcome Belief to work within the laboratory of Dr Adil Khan, within the Centre of Developmental Neurobiology at King’s Faculty London. 

The profitable candidate will undertake unique and cutting-edge biomedical research as an integral member of a gaggle engaged on neural circuits underlying versatile behaviour in mice.  The profitable candidate will even present logistical, technical and organisational assist to different group members within the laboratory. The profitable candidate will both give attention to mind tissue dealing with, colony management, immunostaining and lab organisation, or on mouse behavioural coaching and surgical help.

Candidates ought to have an MSc in Organic Sciences (or comparable) and have a background working in neuroscience, ideally together with mouse stereotaxic surgical procedures, perfusions, immunostaining and mouse behaviour. Candidates ought to have labored with rodents and have expertise of transgenic husbandry. Candidates needs to be motivated, a team-player and be capable to work on their very own initiative.   

The choice course of will likely be a panel interview.   

For a casual dialogue to search out out extra in regards to the position please contact Dr Adil Khan khan.adil@kcl.ac.uk.   

This publish will likely be supplied on an a fixed-term contract for two years.

This can be a full-time publish – 100% full time equal.

Key duties

• Undertake unique and cutting-edge biomedical research as an integral member of a gaggle engaged on neural circuits underlying versatile, cognitive behaviour in mice.
• Breeding and upkeep of a number of transgenic / mutant mouse strains
• Perform stereotactic surgical procedures on mice together with cranial window implants or viral injections in focused mind areas.
• Perform perfusions and procure tissue sections of mouse mind for staining and imaging.
• Perform immunohistochemistry and histological stains to localise totally different markers in tissue sections, confocal and brightfield imaging of preparations.
• Perform behavioural coaching of mice on current paradigms studied within the lab, involving cautious dealing with and head-fixation of mice
• Preserve up-to-date, correct and complete laboratory notes
• Help, supervise and prepare different members of the group, together with college students and different research workers of their software in associated lab tasks.

The above checklist of duties might not be exhaustive, and the publish holder will likely be required to undertake such duties and duties as could fairly be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the publish.

Expertise, data, and expertise

Important standards  

1.       MSc in Organic Sciences or equal expertise 

2.       Related and broad work expertise in organic research laboratories 

3.       Background in neuroscience, with a robust emphasis on rodent work  

4.       Related Expertise of microscopy, together with confocal microscopy 

5.       Related Expertise of histological and molecular biology strategies  

Fascinating standards

1.       Expertise with mouse behaviour and stereotaxic surgical procedures 

2.       Expertise with mouse colony management 

This publish is topic to an Occupational Well being clearance.