Laboratory Technician

1 week ago

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada University of Alberta Full time

REHAB Rehabilitation Medicine:

  • Competition No.

S

  • Posting Date

Jul 21, 2023

  • Closing Date

Jul 27, 2023

  • Position Type

Full Time - Grant Funded

  • Salary Range

$51,055 to $69,342 per year

  • Grade

08

  • Hours

35
This position is a part of the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA).


This position has a term length of 1 year plus a day with a possibility of extension and offers a comprehensive benefits package which can be viewed on our Benefits Overview page.


Location - Work primarily takes place at North Campus Edmonton. This role is in-person.

Working for the University of Alberta


The University of Alberta acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community.


The University of Alberta is teeming with change makers, community builders, and world shapers who lead with purpose each and every day.

We are home to more than 40,000 students in 200+ undergraduate and 500+ graduate programs, over 13,000 faculty and staff, 260,000 alumni worldwide and have been recognized as one of Canada's Greenest Employers for over a decade.


Your work will have a meaningful influence on a fascinating cross section of people—from our students and stakeholders, to our renowned researchers and innovators who are quite literally curing diseases, making discoveries and generating solutions that make the world healthier, safer, stronger, and more just.

**Working for the Department/Faculty
The University of Alberta is home to North America's only freestanding Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. We provide academic training in Rehabilitation Science, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology.

Our researchers lead their field in areas such as spinal cord injury, mental health, robotics, language development, and the impacts of COVID-19.

**Position

The laboratory technicians are the primary support for the PIs, Research Associates, and trainees requiring assistance with experimental work and laboratory maintenance.

The joint laboratories conduct neuroscience research related to motor control, neurotrauma, and related neurological disorders using rats and mice as animal models.

This includes surgeries, motor task training, behavioral testing, histology, microscopy, optogenetics, and electrophysiology.

The position requires an individual who enjoys working with animals but understand that these animals will ultimately be euthanized and tissues collected for evaluation.

Animal care and handling, management and maintenance of the animal facility and behavioral testing is an essential and demanding part of this job.

Other major responsibilities include, managing (or assisting to manage) mouse colony breeding and genotyping, processing of experimental tissue, including cryo-sectioning, immuno-staining and data analysis.

Additional duties include maintenance of stock solutions, maintenance of a clean and safe laboratory environment, as well as assisting with performing, developing, and improving techniques used in the lab as assigned by the PI.

**Duties

Animal facility management and animal care (35%):

  • Establish a new animal housing room and an animal training room for ongoing rehabilitative training experiments, including setting up new caging, arranging training devices for optimal data collection, creating and modifying standard operating procedures for users of the facility, ensuring other users of the facility are compliant with the established protocols, etc.
  • Perform daily animal checks and provide animal care according to CCAC guidelines.
  • Help maintain animal room(s) and cage changing schedules.
  • Provide accurate and detailed animal room record keeping.
  • Organize and manage existing mouse colony including breeder program to generate multimutant lines.
  • Responsible to order new cages, water, food, and other miscellaneous items from central animal care facilities.
  • Will be responsible for writing, updating, and maintaining animal use protocols in consultation with the PI.

Data collections and analysis (35%):

  • Perform daily training of animals in various behavioral tasks, including the single pellet reaching grasping and retrieval task, according to lab standard operating procedures (SOP).
  • Develop and test new behavioral training and testing tasks and devices in consultation with the PI.
  • Establish protocols for training animals using any training tasks or devices developed by the PI or other laboratory members.
  • Record videos of animals performing behavioral tasks.
  • Analyze videos of animals performing tasks to compare movements to a standard scale and a set of behavioral and sensory tests appropriate for that experiment.
  • Collect, organize, document, and summarize experimental data.
  • Provide accurate and detailed record keeping for research project

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