Director, Cytometry and Cell Sorting Laboratory

Description

Title: Director, Cytometry and Cell Sorting Laboratory

Department: OSR-DART

Reports to: Associate Dean, Division of Advanced Research Technologies

Standard Work Week:  35 hours

FLSA status: Exempt

Salary Range: $140,000-$180,000*

* Commensurate with experience

The Cytometry and Cell Sorting (CCSL) Director will work within the scientific framework of the CCSL to serve its goals and in collaboration with principal investigators employing the core.   The CCSL Director will provide scientific expertise and ensure timely consultation on and delivery of high-end and basic services aligned with the NYU Langone scientific community needs and priorities. The successful candidate will be responsible for all operational aspects of the core including budgeting and finance, staff and project workflow management, data management, advancing cytometry and cell sorting technology and methodology research collaborations, staff training and development and writing grant proposals and manuscripts. This position reports to the Associate Dean for Advanced Research Technologies.

 Key Challenges:

• Update CCSL systems and procedures for data analysis and sharing, employing best practices and data standards to reduce variables for generating objective, unbiased data in an expeditious and cost-effective manner.
• Educate and counsel scientific members on the use of current technologies and data generated in CCSL
• Support and contribute to translational research projects and promote transdisciplinary research
• Introduce new applications and technology where appropriate.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Maintains currency and familiarity with latest analytical technologies and methodology in immunology to provide basic and cutting edge technology portfolio for translational human immunology
• Provides expertise and advises basic and clinical researchers on experimental design and data analysis.  Maintain high level of professional expertise through familiarity with scientific literature and scientific networking.
• Support transdisciplinary projects such as immune cell single-cell profiling (e.g., cytometry, transcriptomics, protein secretion), spatial profiling (e.g., spatial transcriptomics, high-dimensional immunochemistry), protein profiling and functional assays; create and validate panels for these technologies, and trains other researchers in their use
• Advance and implement cytometry and cell sorting technologies in consultation with DART leadership, and CCSL Scientific Advisory Board and external experts as needed.  Maintains currency and familiarity with new analytical technologies, meeting with vendors to discuss new or improved instrumentation/equipment and supplies
• Create and implement educational programs that will serve the needs of the scientific user community
• Develops and maintains a high level of customer service. Displays courtesy, tact, and diplomacy when dealing with staff, colleagues, vendors, representatives of other institutions and government and regulatory agencies
• Train CCSL customers on instrument and applications
• Communicate ongoing progress in projects and act as the key interface to engage  projects and customers; interface and communicate with collaborating institutions, departments
• Coordinates project workflow with other DART core directors as needed (Immune Monitoring Laboratory Experimental Pathology Research Laboratory, Cytometry & Cell Sorting Laboratory, Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories)
• Monitoring and continually seeking to improve the performance of cores
• Supervise staff, ensuring that activities are of the highest standards and that all instrumentation/equipment is maintained at the highest working standards for rigorous and reproducible science.
• Develop SOPs for all CCSL operations
• Provides technical expertise and training/educational programs to staff
• Comply with NYU MCIT data management best practices
• Answers questions concerning test results and provides testing methods and collection requirements
• Supervises supply, instrumentation and equipment operation, maintenance and purchases
• Performs planning and budgeting: in partnership with the Finance Director and Assoc Dean, responsible for determining annual goals for the core, and devising an annual Business Plan that outlines the cores’ scientific development and projected levels of service, revenue, and expenses for the upcoming year.  
• Monitor the cost effectiveness of cores as compared to other modes or sources of service
• Oversees all core purchasing, monitoring expe