Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
05/13/2026
Salary Range $31.23 - 50.24 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
30610
Under the general supervision of the PI, the Staff Research Associate II conducts studies with a mouse model of white matter stroke examining acute injury mechanisms to axons and oligodendrocytes. The successful candidate will have had prior experience with rodent survival surgeries and in training of these techniques to others. You will also have at least two years of prior experience in neuroscience or a brain related field and be able to operate independently when performing experiments. Duties include, but are not limited to: performing precise stereotactic surgeries on mice, handling and injecting lentiviral constructs into brain, processing tissue for histological and immunohistochemical stains, independently running research projects on mouse stroke modeling and injury response, supervising undergraduate Lab Helpers, training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in mouse surgery, drug and lentiviral delivery, participating in lab maintenance, supply ordering and all compliance tasks required for biohazard and chemical disposal protocols, perform PCR, gel electrophoresis, managing transgenic mice colonies, and performing cell culturing.
Salary Range: $31.23 - $50.24/Hourly
Required:
Preferred:
As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.
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