Laboratory Science Professional

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Pharmacology / Functional Genomics Facility

Job Title:  Laboratory Science Professional

Position #00839641  – Requisition # 37911

Job Summary:

We are urgently hiring a skilled Lab Technician to ensure continuity and excellence in our Functional Genomics Facility following the departure of a key team member. This role is essential to maintaining core operations, supporting high-throughput workflows, and enabling cutting-edge research in gene function and regulation. The ideal candidate will be proficient in molecular biology techniques, sample processing, and data quality control, with a strong commitment to precision and reliability.

This position is vital to sustaining our research momentum and supporting collaborative projects across the institution. Join us to help drive impactful discoveries in functional genomics.

Key Responsibilities / Duties: (There should be 10+ duties, and duties should be grouped under a section header collectively; the section headers add up to 100%)

Key Responsibilities involve, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform routine lab chores

• Generate relevant molecular reagents for more than 200 client labs across Colorado, which includes processing orders through iLabs, generating invoices, growing bacterial cultures, plasmid prep, maintaining HEK293FT for packaging viral particles, lentiviral and AAV prep, and managing order pick up.

• Skilled in using Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SnapGene and R-studio

• Update website

• Help with reports and presentation preparation

• Give lab meeting (data or journal club)

• Assist with optimizing new protocols

• Custom RNAi and CRISPR panel design and cloning

• Adopt and adapt molecular biology tools to study gene function

• Contribute to the design and execution of collaborative projects that require the core facility’s expertise

Experience in the following techniques will be viewed favorably:

• Bacterial culture, plasmid and genomic DNA isolation, gel electrophoresis, western blotting, end-point and real-time PCR, cell/tissue culture, mammalian cell transfection

• Knowledge of shRNA, ORF and CRISPR technology

• Library prep for Next Gen Sequencing

• Basic Bioinformatics and Computational Biology skills

• iPSC editing and analysis

Inventory, storage and management of lab specimens and reagents; associated record keeping

• Manage and update lab inventory of cell lines, reagents (media, serum, plasmids, etc.)

• Record keeping for customized projects

• Edited iPSC record keeping

Collaborate with researchers

• Design, execute and evaluate research investigations

• Literature reviews, performing experiments and pilots, data integration, and analysis

Foundational lab maintenance responsibilities

• Assist with various laboratory and clinical support operations, such as autoclaving, inventories, ordering supplies, and hazardous materials management.

• Prepare the lab for daily operations, including stocking materials, equipment, safety, cleanliness, and r