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Senior Research Support Associate
  • Job Number: 25854
  • Functional Area: Research - Scientific
  • Department: Biology
  • School Area: Science
  • Pay Range Minimum: $22.13
  • Pay Range Maximum: $29.80
  • Employment Type: Full-Time
  • Employment Category: Non-Exempt
  • Visa Sponsorship Available: No
  • Schedule:
  • Pay Grade: 4


Posting Description

SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, Biology - Weissbourd Lab, to support ongoing projects with contributions ranging from wet lab work to computational expertise, engineering, and other fields. Examples could include: Laboratory experiments: microscopy, molecular biology (cloning, RNA extraction, etc), behavior experiments, and generating transgenic jellyfish by microinjection of oocytes, Computational biology: developing imaging processing pipelines to accompany new microscopes being built; solve other machine vision problems for behavior tracking; analysis and modelling of neural activity and/or behavior data, and Engineering: building novel microscopy and/or behavior recording setups.

The full job description is here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:31693486-f94d-4cfa-a1d2-481e124bb897  

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: High school diploma; a minimum of two years of laboratory experience, including experience with aquaculture; ability to work independently, and to work well as part of a team; strong work ethic; and excellent organizational and communication skills. PREFERRED: Bachelor’s degree in Biology/neuroscience, Computer science, engineering, or closely related field.

Some weekend/holiday work may be required.

7/9/2026