RESEARCH SCIENTIST ENGINEER 1
Req #: | 165557 |
Department: | PATHOLOGY |
Job Location: | Health Sciences Center |
Posting Date: | 05/15/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience |
Shift: | First Shift |
Notes: |
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here.
Please note that this position has been reposted. If you have already submitted your application, you need not submit it again, as it has already been received. |
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.
The University of Washington, Department of Pathology is a broad and dynamic department that strives for a consistent level of high achievement in all of its activities. The Department offers full diagnostic services in all areas of Pathology, is a top ranked research organization as measured by research awards from the National Institutes of Health, and offers an array of specialized educational training programs.
UW Medicine Pathology brings together state-of-the-art technology and highly trained, world renowned personnel to provide comprehensive diagnostic and personalized service to physicians, community hospitals, independent laboratories, and other health care organizations. Our operations are based at the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, South Lake Union, Northwest Hospital and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Pathology faculty members also serve at Seattle Children's Hospital, the Veteran’s Administration Puget Sound Healthcare System, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. These collaborative efforts have generated innovative, translational studies in the basic mechanisms of disease as they apply to diagnostic pathology.
The Dog Aging Project at the University of Washington currently has an outstanding opportunity for a RESEARCH SCIENTIST ENGINEER 1 to assist with our exploration of the epigenetic basis for aging in companion dogs.
Our goal is to understand how chromatin accessibility changes in dogs during the aging process, to define epigenetic loci that are altered during the aging process, and to establish an “epigenetic clock” for aging in companion dogs. To this end, we seek a member of our team to refine and implement a pipeline for collection of PBMCs from donated blood samples, quality control and flow cytometric analysis and sorting of these samples, isolation and transposition of chromatin, and preparation of ATAC-Seq libraries.
We are seeking someone with a strong background in biology, strong lab skills in molecular and cell biology, and experience with chromatin biology, next-generation sequencing library preparation, and flow cytometry. Strong organizational skills are a must, as this project comprises potentially hundreds to thousands of samples.
Responsibilities:
The Research Scientist/Engineer 1 will:
Minimum Requirements:
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
Other required qualifications include:
Desired:
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