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Research Technician Dept of Developmental Neurobiology

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£28,717 - £31,831 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
25 Jan 2022

Job Details

Job description

The purpose of this role is to provide technical and organisational support to the Houart laboratory within the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology investigating the cellular, molecular and morphogenetic mechanisms required to build the vertebrate forebrain, using zebrafish as a model system, and to allow the Houart group to achieve its research objectives in an efficient working lab environment.

The successful candidate will take care of the day-to-day running of a research laboratory. They will manage the stocks of consumables, reagents and chemicals, as well as ensuring that equipment is used safely and well maintained. To achieve this, they will liaise with sales representatives and engineers and will be responsible for all external ordering as well as managing budgets. The candidate will be trained in various experimental techniques and procedures including in situ hybridisation, PCR, RNA and DNA extraction, immunohistochemistry, gel electrophoresis, molecular cloning, microinjection and microscopy. They will use these techniques to both independently and collaboratively, assist with research projects under the direction of the lab head.

Organisation and communication are integral to this role as they will be required to arrange and manage rotas and meetings in which they will actively participate. 

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 months 

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

  • Management of consumables, reagents and chemicals, as well as ensuring that equipment is used safely and well maintained 
  • Assist with research projects under the direction of the lab head 
  • To follow laboratory protocols in various molecular and cellular biological techniques including but not limited to DNA cloning, PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA/RNA extraction, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridisation. 
  • Provide flexible logistical, technical and organisational support to other lab members. 
  • Generation and maintenance of zebrafish lines 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria 

  • MSc in Biological Sciences or related discipline  
  • Neuroscience or developmental biology research experience  
  • Experience in data management  
  • Ability to trouble shoot laboratory problems  
  • Ability to work collaboratively  
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently  
  • Good skills in record keeping 

Desirable criteria 

  • Knowledge in zebrafish biology  
  • Experience in immunohistochemistry 
  • Experience in DNA cloning 
  • Experience in confocal imaging 

Further information

This is a short-term role funded by a Parents’ and Carers’ Fund Award. Ideally we would like the candidate to be able to start in January 2022.  

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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