Lab Coordinator - Heart and Vascular Institute

What you'd do

• CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday.
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• Manage multi-center submission of human subjects data and biologic specimens.
• Lab management (ordering, meticulous record keeping, attention to detail).
• Assist the postdoctoral and predoctoral teams with projects where needed (qPCR, western blot, other basic lab techniques).
• Assist faculty with IRB protocols.
• Oversee lab management (ordering, inventory, maintenance, storage, study budget management, meticulous record keeping, and lab security).
• Prepare human iPSC derived cardiomyocytes and perform contraction analyses at rest and in response to medication studies, along with patch clamping techniques and studies.
• Prepare cDNA clones for transfection, prepare dissection and dissociation solutions, process DNA and protein samples for PCR and Western blotting assays.
• Maintain cell line cultures for transfection.
• Transfect cell lines, perform pharmacological assays of transfected cell lines with the microplate reader, perform Western blotting assays and quantitative RT-PCR assays.
• Independently monitor and carry out oversight of animal lines including transgenic mice colony maintenance, employing gel electrophoresis and PCR techniques, preparing solutions and other routine lab duties.
• Analyze and plot data obtained from the assays performed.
• Assist faculty with IACUC protocols.
• Oversee animal charges and apply to appropriate study budgets.