Research Technician

Lab Technician Position: Molecular Methods and Culturing in Microbial Ecology and Evolution.

The Oliverio Lab (https://oliveriolab.org/) in the Department of Biology at Syracuse University is seeking a motivated, organized, detail-oriented research technician to work on the molecular-level activities of environmental microbes and perform experiments with synthetic microbial communities. Applicants with either a Bachelor's or Master's are welcome to apply.

The technician will be responsible for:

+ Working with graduate and undergraduate students to maintain a lab space.

+ Purchasing supplies and maintaining chemical and lab safety standards for the lab.

+ Training students in molecular methods.

+ Growing microbial cultures.

+ Setting up ecological experiments with microbial cultures.

+ Performing DNA/RNA extractions from cultures and environmental samples.

+ Running established bioinformatics pipelines asso...