Senior Laboratory Associate (Jeurissen Lab)

Description

The Jeurissen Lab at NYU's Center for Neural Science is searching for a full-time laboratory associate to join their team. The person(s) hired will be involved in all aspects of animal care and husbandry, routine health care procedures, daily animal evaluations, general
technical assistance to the veterinary staff, animal training, and experimental procedures.

Responsibilities include:
- Behavioral training and testing of research animals.
- Maintaining detailed and accurate logs about food and water intake, experimental procedures, and data collection.
- Maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
- Interacting and coordinating with investigative staff and veterinary services staff to assure health and welfare of animals.
- Maintaining supplies and research equipment, placing orders, and tracking expenses.
- Assisting in surgeries, preparing and sterilizing surgical tools, post-operative monitoring of animal health.
- Assisting and interacting with investigative staff to meet their research needs.
- Training, supervising, and orienting new employees and research staff, as needed.
- Designing hardware and software for animal behavioral training. Experience with laser cutting, soldering, manufacturing, 3D-printing, and programming is desirable.
- Assisting with electrophysiological measurements and neuroscience experiments. Experience with neural recordings and causal manipulation techniques such as drug infusion in large animals is desirable.
- Regularly inspecting facilities to assure the highest quality of animal care and required sanitation standards. Monitoring to assure compliance with all animal care and facility maintenance procedures, standards, and guidelines.
- Inspecting facilities to assure compliance with relevant regulations, guidelines, and policies. Examines operations and procedures to assure efficient utilization of manpower, equipment, and facilities and to assure that relevant regulations, guidelines, policies, and procedures are followed.
- Confers with faculty periodically to evaluate new equipment and methods.
- Assists investigators with appropriate treatments for research animals.
- Performs other job related duties as assigned.

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $55,000 - $90,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the specific grant funding and the terms of the research grant when extending an offer.

Qualifications

B.S. and above

Application Instructions

Please submit C.V. and a cover letter.

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