Clinical: Fellows will spend their time with different faculty performing gender-affirming surgeries, as well as other reconstructive urologic surgeries. How this exposure is balanced will depend on fellow interest, previous exposure in prior training, surgical skill, as well as clinical demand. Exposure to other reconstructive surgeries is important for a well-rounded training experience and to gain greater insight and knowledge about reconstructive principles. We anticipate that on average one day a week will be spent in an outpatient clinical setting/research/administrative time. Exposure to outpatient management is critical in building comfort and sensitivity with a vulnerable, underserved, and frequently traumatized patient population.   As this field is very collaborative with other specialties, fellows will have extensive exposure to other disciplines. Fellows will be expected to attend all meetings of the OHSU Transgender Health Program, including monthly committee meetings, monthly multi-disciplinary case reviews, etc. Fellows will attend and be expected to present research and clinical teaching presentations at national and international meetings, in particular the WPATH/USPATH/EPATH meetings, and the annual AUA meeting. Fellows may be asked to give teaching presentations within OHSU and locally, as well.   Dr. Jens Berli, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, who leads our Phalloplasty program, plans a fellowship training program for Plastic Surgeons in gender-affirming surgery as well. We envision a formal “exchange” period where the Urology and Plastic Surgery fellows would rotate for 2-3 months with the other service and act as the fellow for that service. This is particularly important in learning about phalloplasty procedures, and learning surgical skills unique to a plastic surgery experience. Fellows will make daily patient rounds and act as a point of contact for residents in the residents’ management of patient care. This may include rounding on weekends at times.   As board-eligible and licensed urologists, Fellows will take call as OHSU faculty at a frequency consistent with other OHSU Urology faculty and be responsible for clinical care as a result of those duties. Fellows may also be called upon to periodically staff patient consults seen and worked-up by the residents. This is important in developing autonomy needed for future practice, as well as financial support of the fellowship position.   Outstanding level of professional performance expected. Professional performance is delivered in a manner that is compliant with the regulation and guidelines of all relevant regulating bodies (i.e. DNV, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, OHSU IRB, NIH and all other state, federal, and institutional regulatory guidelines.) Treats all patients, research subjects, trainees and co-workers with dignity and respect.   Academics: Fellow may be involved in teaching support staff in their area of professional expertise. Teaching is done through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year and through teaching in the course of performing their own job by modeling best practices, mentoring trainees, guiding learning through delegating graduated and focused levels of responsibility. Must be knowledgeable of and compliant with all applicable regulating bodies (e.g. ACGME competencies for clinical faculty, NIH guidelines for research faculty).   Research: The existing research in gender-affirming reconstructive surgery is relatively limited. This positions us for ground-breaking research in this sub-specialty. Many opportunities for research collaboration exist within the OHSU Transgender Health Program with Plastic Surgery, primary care in both Internal Medicine and Family Medicine and other specialties.

Customer Service:  - Provide high quality customer service to all internal and external customers. This includes communicating accurately, openly, supportively, in a timely manner, and extending special attention and sensitivity to all patients, visitors, and fellow employees. - Assist in maintaining an atmosphere of cooperation within the department, as well as with other departments and allied professionals. - Demonstrate respect and cooperation in all staff relationships, and a genuine willingness to prevent or resolve inter-personal conflicts. Must demonstrate superior face to face customer contact skills, remain calm and resourceful during crisis management or other difficult situations, and manage standard complaint processing. - Required to learn and maintain skill with available information technology, and remain current with changes to departmental procedures and new information. Provide flexible coverage of internal service needs, including work location and reporting time. Registration Service: - Gather and/or verify patient information including demographics, guarantor, emergency contacts, insurance coverage, and financial status. Verify patient eligibility for health care coverage and enter appropriate insurance plan information and codes. Enter all information accurately into OHSU databases. - Provide financial screening for low income or non-sponsered patients and refer patients to apply for Oregon or Washington Medicaid or OHSU Financial Assistance when appropriate. Complete reverification, udpates, and/or new patient registration from patient work queues, email, or inbasket as assigned. Required to maintain Registration Department individual performance standards: Production Standard: Individual standard of 60 registrations per day Error Rate Standard: Maintain an accuracy rate of 97% Talk Time Standard: Average time to complete a registration is 4.5 minutes or less. Telecommunications: - Utilize an Automated Call distributor (ACD) to answering incoming registration calls.  Staff in and out of ACD and use not ready work as per department guidelines.  Remain available to accept incoming calls at all times. Adhere to department schedule for break and lunch periods. - Refer general information inquiries and urgent health concerns to the appropriate area. Answer and explain all registration questions asked by patients or other employees. Note that Registration Services participates in customer service evaluations via call monitoring and/or recording.

Team Development/Management - Direct supervision of entry level through senior level clinical research staff including performance management, disciplinary action, coaching, team building, delegation of tasks as well as defining specific roles and responsibilities within the team. - Promote retention and engagement by building a foundation in clinical research fundamentals while building strong clinical research coordination support for the KCVI clinical research program. - Day to day operational issues, and cross-training for back-up coverage in all areas of clinical trials operations - regulatory/IRB, patient assessments and care, sponsor communications, data entry and query resolution. - Responsible for the recruitment and hiring of all clinical research staff for the Interventional Clinical Research Team. - Collaborate with HR and the Education /Regulatory Specialist in building a standardized onboarding plan for new staff. Program Management - Coordinate site qualification visits, execution of startup documentation, oversight of data entry and management of information in OHSU’s central CTMS system, timely and accurate submission of case report forms to the sponsor, as well as overseeing enrollment and patient screening to ensure enrollment goals are met. - Responsible for ensuring the Research Coordinators are completing required regulatory work for each study. This includes maintaining all active IRB protocols, including amendments, termination of protocols, and startup of new protocol. - Ensure required documentation is filed and provided to the sponsors in accordance with FDA requirements, and working with program leadership to prepare and participate in FDA audits as they occur. - Responsible for working with the Trials Administrator and investigators to develop new study budgets, working with the finance team to ensure coordinator time is billed timely and accurately through internal billing processes, and assist the Trials Administrator in development of fiscal year budgets for the Interventional program. - Collaborate with the Trials Administrator in the development of standard workflows and SOP’s to ensure compliance, efficiency and consistency in support for trials within the program.

$10,000 hiring bonus   To provide intra-operative technical assistance to physicians and RN's who care for pediatric patients experiencing a surgical intervention/other invasive procedure. To participate actively in the work of the unit, committee work, and program level activities/projects. The role requires completion of annual clinical competencies, attending staff meetings and educational events during the day, and actively participating in all quality improvement opportunities assigned. The role requires that all policies, procedures, and patient safety initiatives will be followed.   Surgical Technologists are an integral part of the team providing surgical care to patients. Surgical Technologists function in the role of scrub person. Surgical Technologists work under the supervision of the surgeon and the R.N. to ensure that the O.R. environment is safe, equipment functions properly and that the operative procedure is conducted under conditions that maximize patient safety. Must possess expertise in the theory and application of surgical technique, human anatomy, and surgical procedures, implementation of tools and technologies to facilitate safe care of the patient during invasive therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. The surgical technologist role requires extended periods of standing, lifting heavy instrumentation, and potential exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens.   Wage Range: $32.11 - $43.41 per hour

This position will play a critical role in OPIP’s effort to improve the provision of behavioral health for children, with a heavy emphasis on behavioral health services for children birth to five. This position will support a Learning Collaborative that provides training, resources, and implementation supports to integrated behavioral health clinicians in primary care sites. These trainings will focus on assessments and brief interventions that can be done for children overall, but particularly for children in a primary care setting. Secondly, this position will support improvement efforts and facilitation of health systems on how to understand their current specialty behavioral health provider network, how to summarize the network of services, and then how to improve and expand their behavioral health network. Lastly, this position will support OPIP’s effort to develop metric and policy recommendations meant to enhance the breadth and depth of behavioral health services provided to children.    This position is under the supervision of the Director of the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership (OPIP). The position will require some travel across the state and in the regions that OPIP leads efforts.

- Assist pharmacist through performance of the following technical support activities:  - Computer order entry of inpatient and outpatient orders. - Filling unit dose medication orders. - Select ordered medications from inventory to fill new orders or to provide 24-hours medication for distribution to patient's room.  - Answering telephone, filing, billing / crediting and medication profile maintenance. - Load and refill medications into automated dispensing cabinet stations. - Maintain manufacturing logs and documents to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies.   - Prioritize labels from new orders to assure that product is delivered to label location at least one hour prior to label due time. - Organize and restock work areas during and prior to end of shift, and remove expired medication.  - Round to nursing locations; deliver items and remove  excess and discontinued oral dosage and injectable dosage units from patients’ bins and refrigerators and return to pharmacy for action. - Perform Unit Dose functions including: - Tube medications from pharmacy to hospital and clinic areas - Repackage medications for unit dose dispensing; maintain and replenish stock for emergency trays and kits. - Return medications to stock and perform credits. - Record refrigerator temperature daily. - Process narcotics for removal from Pharmacy inventory and order replacements as needed. - F. Maintain barcode medication integrity by ensuring medications are barcoded before leaving the pharmacy. - System optimization, hardware maintenance, user support, reporting, file transmission and assistance in problem-solving pertaining to automation and technology. - Performs a detailed and thorough audit of controlled substances medications dispensed for a patient and reconciles against products documented as adminisered or returned to the pharmacy for wasting. Demonstrates the ability to strengthen accountability, identify suspected diversion, and responds to known or suspected diversion incidents to avoid serious patient care, legal, and compliance implications. - Perform other technician duties as assigned based on operational needs.     

The duties of this position include: - Provide medical care independently in inpatient and outpatient setting to ophthalmology patients. - Communicate with attending physicians regarding a patient's condition, treatment plans, and urgent medical needs - Communicate with patients and family regarding their medical conditions, treatment plans, and their progress. Review labs and imaging as appropriate - Assure appropriate setting of care (ambulatory, inpatient, critical care, acute care) - Document subjective and objective findings, assessment and plan clearly and accurately in progress notes according to OHSU guidelines - Maintain communication with primary care providers and other individuals and agencies as appropriate - Provide preoperative H&P evaluations; coordination of ancillary services; promoting and maintaining health through the use of ancillary services, educational materials and counseling of patients and families; - Provide same day response to medical advice/prescription phone requests and coordinating patient services with Ophthalmology outpatient staff promoting a safe environment for patients and adhering to policies regarding patient care and confidentiality to support the mission and goals of OHSU - Assist in training newly hired Physician Assistants. - Attend and participate in Grand Rounds, OHSU conferences, lectures, national conferences, and other learning opportunities as available After appropriate proctoring, APPs will independently perform procedures to include: Administer topical and oral medications Biometry Contact lens fitting Evaluate and manage corneal abrasions Functional ocular measurements and tests Lensometry Measurement of intra-ocular pressure Ocular motility testing Refractometry Removal of uncomplicated extraocular foreign body (cornea, conjunctiva, eyelid) Routine eye examinations Slit lamp exam and stain for abrasion Tonometry Visual field testing  

The duties of this position include: - Provide medical care independently in inpatient and outpatient setting to ophthalmology patients. - Communicate with attending physicians regarding a patient's condition, treatment plans, and urgent medical needs - Communicate with patients and family regarding their medical conditions, treatment plans, and their progress. Review labs and imaging as appropriate - Assure appropriate setting of care (ambulatory, inpatient, critical care, acute care) - Document subjective and objective findings, assessment and plan clearly and accurately in progress notes according to OHSU guidelines - Maintain communication with primary care providers and other individuals and agencies as appropriate - Provide preoperative H&P evaluations; coordination of ancillary services; promoting and maintaining health through the use of ancillary services, educational materials and counseling of patients and families; - Provide same day response to medical advice/prescription phone requests and coordinating patient services with Ophthalmology outpatient staff promoting a safe environment for patients and adhering to policies regarding patient care and confidentiality to support the mission and goals of OHSU - Assist in training newly hired Physician Assistants. - Attend and participate in Grand Rounds, OHSU conferences, lectures, national conferences, and other learning opportunities as available   After appropriate proctoring, APPs will independently perform procedures to include: Administer topical and oral medications Biometry Contact lens fitting Evaluate and manage corneal abrasions Functional ocular measurements and tests Lensometry Measurement of intra-ocular pressure Ocular motility testing Refractometry Removal of uncomplicated extraocular foreign body (cornea, conjunctiva, eyelid) Routine eye examinations Slit lamp exam and stain for abrasion Tonometry Visual field testing  

Clinical Responsibilities: 7 half days of clinic/clinic equivalents during non-attending weeks.  The outpatient responsibilities will be at the discretion of the Division Head and can be changed based on divisional needs.  The following plan is proposed for 2022-2023 - Five -half days of Hepatology Clinic (1-2 Transplant Clinic, 3-4 General Hepatology) - Two- half days of outpatient endoscopy       Attending Responsibilities: - 8 to 12 weeks per year in rotation with other faculty. During attending rotations you will be expected to supervise GI fellows, complete all inpatient Hepatology consultations, and perform endoscopic procedures on inpatients and complex outpatients at the hospital endoscopy unit or ICU.  During the attending rotation, you will not have other afternoon outpatient obligations and will receive full credit for these afternoon outpatient clinics.Limited nursing support will be provided for all outpatient activities. Scholarly Responsibilities: - Teaching of medical students, residents, GI fellows during the course of the year. Administration Responsibilities: - You will have no administrative duties at this time.

The duties of this position include: providing patient care in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology clinic/clinic equivalent in the areas of IBD, general GI, and endoscopy; attending between 8 and 10 weeks each year on the GI consult service; sharing night/weekend call responsibilities with other GI faculty members; and teaching medical students, residents, and GI fellows during the course of the year.   Clinical Responsibilities: 7 half days of clinic/clinic equivalents during non-attending weeks.  The outpatient responsibilities will be at the discretion of the Division Head and could be changed based on divisional needs.  The following plan is proposed for 2023-2024 - Two- three -half days of endoscopy - Four- Five half days of clinic focused on Gen GI and/or IBD 8-10 weeks on GI service based on the number of full time GI staff - During attending rotations, you will be expected to supervise Gl fellows, complete all inpatient Gl consultations, and perform endoscopic procedures on inpatients and complex outpatients at the hospital endoscopy unit or ICU.  During the attending rotation, you will not have other outpatient obligations and will receive full credit for the outpatient clinics. - Night and weekend call - in rotation with other faculty, and similar to other GI faculty.  Weekend call is shared with OHSU and VA faculty.  Faculty are expected to see new patients, and supervise all endoscopic procedures in person.       Scholarly and Research Responsibilities: - Teaching of medical students, residents, Gl fellows during the course of the year.

The Mishra lab aims to unravel the mechanisms underlying the neurovascular dysfunction in neurological conditions, with particular focus on ischemic injury and their contributions to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Current projects in the lab aim to characterize the neuroinflammatory processes, especially the responses of astrocytes and microglia, following mild ischemia that may accelerate pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and understand the mechanistic cellular and molecular pathways by which this leads to neurovascular dysfunction. Two fully-funded postdoctoral research positions are open to lead studies along these lines: - The first project will investigate the role of pericytes, the cells that control capillary diameter, in regulating cerebral blood flow in healthy physiology and in Alzheimer’s disease. This project will utilize pericyte-specific DREADDs and pharmacological/genetic manipulations to unravel the intracellular contractile machinery within pericytes, identify endogenous signals that regulate pericyte contractility, and examine how these signals may change in Alzheimer’s disease to cause neurovascular dysfunction. - The second project will investigate interactions between ischemia and Alzheimer’s disease. This project will use ex vivo (acute brain slice) and in vivo (laser speckle contrast imaging, 2-photon imaging, magnetic resonance imaging) live imaging for physiological analysis of vascular function, behavior to assess cognitive ability, and immunohistology to assess pathology. The goal is to determine how a mild ischemic episode (small stroke) alters neurovascular function over life-time and potentially synergizes with amyloid b pathology to precipitate cognitive dysfunction, and whether restoring vascular function can protect cognitive function.   The successful candidates will be responsible for experimental design, data collection and analysis, reading the pertinent literature, writing manuscripts for publication, and generally leading the project under the guidance of the PI.   The post-doc will also facilitate lab organization, participate in lab meetings, attend research seminars and journal clubs, present their work at national/international conferences, and help supervise research assistants and early graduate students in the lab.   Experience in mouse genetics, animal surgery, immunohistochemistry and western blotting, in vivo 2 photon or MRI imaging, and behavioral assessment are the main criteria. A willingness to learn and passion for scientific inquiry are a must!   Ideally, the candidate would be able to start in the lab in the fall or winter of 2023.

The Adult Generalist Anesthesiologist shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the University's missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.   Teaches trainees and support staff in their area of professional expertise.  Teaching is done through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year and through teaching in the course of performing their own job by modeling best practices, mentoring trainees, guiding learning through delegating graduated and focused levels of responsibility.  Faculty have a demonstrated competence in teaching and are knowledgeable about relevant guidelines from all applicable regulating bodies. (E.g. ACGME competencies for clinical faculty).   Provides an outstanding level of professional performance (e.g. quality of clinical care for clinical faculty).  Professional performance is to be delivered in a manner that is compliant with the regulations and guidelines of all relevant regulating bodies (e.g. the American Society of Anesthesiologists, JCAHO, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, OHSU IRB, NIH and all other state, federal, and institutional regulatory guidelines).  Treats all patients, research subjects, trainees and co-workers with dignity and respect.   May maintain a program of scholarly research activity directed toward improved understanding of the causes, detection, and treatment of diseases.  May develop and direct scholarly research activities focused toward improving the educational foundation within anesthesiology and perioperative medicine.  May engage in public service through consultative activities with OHSU and non-University groups as approved by the Chair.  May also participate in additional departmental or hospital administration as approved by the Chair or supervising Vice Chair.   This posting is being used to fill multiple positions.

Clinical Activities (not related to teaching or research): - Plans and supervises student lab and/or clinical experiences or practice based on teaching assignments. Scholarly Activities (research/writing, abstracts, grant-supported work, presentations, etc.): - Participates in scholarly activities based on faculty rank. - At the Assistant Professor rank or higher, faculty in the practice mission, demonstrates competence in an area of clinical expertise and engages in inquiry and scholarship that contributes to the practice of clinical practice. - At the Assistant Professor rank or higher, faculty in the research mission advance a program of research, prepares grants and seek funding, and engage with other missions to foster inquiry within the SON. Education Activities (include types of teaching and types of students taught): - Provides effective didactic instruction based on teaching assignments using appropriate instructional technologies to ensure that course outcomes are met. - Participates collaboratively in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum. - Mentors and advises students. - Faculty in the doctoral program supervise students in dissertation and/or clinical inquiry projects. Service Activities - These activities could include faculty meetings, committee membership, professional activities, and other responsibilities as assigned by the Program or Academic Director. - Participates in faculty governance; additional engagement based on rank. Administrative Activities - As negotiated. Other Activities - The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach, and public service.

Billing: - Submit bills that comply with all appropriate regulations, managed care contracts to third party payors. - Calculate the correct reimbursement of all managed care claim Third party follow-up and collection: - Within the stratified processing environment, collect assertively and proactively money due OHSU by contacting (through telephoning, emailing, and/or accessing on-line systems) third parties (insurance carrier, various government programs, etc.) - Provide explanation of charges and additional requested information to the third parties. - Analyze accounts to determine coordination of benefits, refunds, and denials to insure appropriate resolution of accounts. - Review billing to determine medical records necessary to provide complete processing of claim. - Analyze accounts with regard to billing and payment history and uses judgment to determines appropriate follow-up action based on departmental guidelines. - Contact patient/guarantor to resolve issues (includes tracing and locating patient/guarantor by telephoning and/or sending written correspondence.) - Analyze accounts and interpreting contracts that dictate how claims should be paid and processing adjustments for contract interpretation. - Comply with special billing and follow-up requirements regarding adoptions, court holds, motor vehicle and personal injury accidents, and other unique or sensitive accounts - Work reports of denied claims to trend and report these claims to the department and to our front end partners - Work closely with admitting, care management and ambulatory services on the denied claims for resolution and feedback purposes - Prepare the appeals for selected denials  

Study Protocol Management and Development- - In collaboration with the principle investigator and based on sponsor protocol, develop/submit new IRB protocols for review as well as submit required maintenance amendments to the protocol as needed. - Work in collaboration with coordinator teams and Clinical Research Managers to ensure all IRB protocols are up to date, including updated staffing information, accurate term dates, and that amendments are submitted timely when adjustments are needed. Study Documentation- - Monitor and ensure documentation storage meets FDA, institutional and sponsor guidelines.  - Oversight and maintenance of all regulatory binders for each study - Ensuring proper filing of all study correspondence between study team and sponsor for audit purposes - Ensure proper filing of all correspondence between IRB and study team for audit purposes - Ensure centralized documentation of all training certificates and medical license (if applicable) for study site staff and investigators for audit purposes - Ensure centralized documentation of all monitor visit reports if applicable.  This includes site selection, site initiation, monitoring visits, and close-out reports - Work with study teams to ensure all Serious Adverse Events for patients enrolled in studies being supported are reported to the sponsor and any related regulatory authorities. - Work with study teams to ensure all screening, subject identification, and enrollment logs are filled out in accordance with regulatory requirements Study Conductance- - Work with Primary Investigator to collect and analyze study data.  This may involve the following: - Work with the PI in screening and consent of patients into studies - Collect data regarding subject visits/procedures relevant to the study - Navigate EMR and update relevant documentation based on treatments/correspondence patients enrolled in the study have received 40 Yes Data Analysis- - Upon completion of the study use biostatistical assessments to identify potentially significant outcomes.  Data Publication- - Assist PI in developing publications that outline outcomes identified at the end of the study.

The current work in the CET focuses on cancer biology, chemical biology, pharmacology, toxicology and pre-clinical drug discovery/development (high throughput screening (HTS), organic/medicinal chemistry, refining functional assays), for expanded clinical use. Expertise in the cancer biology and pre-clinical drug development, as well as an in depth understanding of the regulatory processes surrounding the use of such a device, is of high value. It is of critical importance to the number of research projects as well as for correlate research studies performed in lab. This position will be responsible for directing a pre-clinical research team that develops and run the drug candidates, providing potentially lifesaving treatment options to patients with late stage cancers and generating primary patient derived data for research purposes. This position will also play a role in developing and executing sponsored research projects. This will include drafting SOW, providing laboratory oversight of active projects, delivering project updates, and providing guidance on future potential commercialization of research finding. Given the requirement for extensive laboratory experience, this individual will also be responsible for overseeing and providing scientific direction of key research personnel, graduate students and post-docs and their research projects. This position is also responsible for independently writing grants and providing grant support to all levels of researchers within the department and will also provide oversight and direction for manuscript writing and submission and creating statements of work for collaborative projects. This individual will also be required to create policies and communicate these to the CET laboratory. There will also be a requirement to teach and present research findings via scientific seminars at department- and institute-wide seminars, lab meetings, graduate course lectures, presentation to the public, and at national and international conferences.

The Beatty Lab at OHSU is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant 2 (RA 2) to conduct research using chemical probes to study bacterial pathogens.  The RA2 will be part of an interdisciplinary team studying enzyme regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacterial species.  This NIAID-funded project combines enzyme biochemistry, proteomics, microbiology, and chemistry to make new discoveries.  Prior research experience with an advanced degree in biochemistry is preferred.   The ideal candidate for this position will have research experience in biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, BSL-2 (or BSL-3) bacterial culture, and protein purification.  The candidate should also have enthusiasm for applying his/her knowledge towards medically-relevant problems.  This position is particularly well-suited for a researcher who would like to gain new hands-on experience in a variety of research areas and techniques.  Projects will expose the candidate to numerous methods used in chemical biology and biochemistry.    Qualified applicants must be organized, reliable, self-sufficient, and goal-oriented.  The successful applicant will need to assist in ordering materials and supplies, maintaining detailed records, analyze data, and document results.  The candidate must be comfortable working independently and alongside other researchers.   Key Responsibilities include: - Contribute to the scientific direction and planning for a project within the lab. - Perform research experiments and analyze results for project within the lab. - Maintain lab equipment and supplies.

The Beatty Lab at OHSU is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant 2 (RA 2) to conduct research using chemical probes to study bacterial pathogens.  The RA2 will be part of an interdisciplinary team studying enzyme regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacterial species.  This NIAID-funded project combines enzyme biochemistry, proteomics, microbiology, and chemistry to make new discoveries.  Prior research experience with an advanced degree in biochemistry is preferred.   The ideal candidate for this position will have research experience in biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, BSL-2 (or BSL-3) bacterial culture, and protein purification.  The candidate should also have enthusiasm for applying his/her knowledge towards medically-relevant problems.  This position is particularly well-suited for a researcher who would like to gain new hands-on experience in a variety of research areas and techniques.  Projects will expose the candidate to numerous methods used in chemical biology and biochemistry.    Qualified applicants must be organized, reliable, self-sufficient, and goal-oriented.  The successful applicant will need to assist in ordering materials and supplies, maintaining detailed records, analyze data, and document results.  The candidate must be comfortable working independently and alongside other researchers.   Responsibilities include: - Perform research experiments and analyze results for project within the lab. - Contribute to the scientific direction and planning for a project within the lab. - Maintain lab equipment and supplies.

This position will support the Wilder Lab in a wide array of research tasks, including performing all aspects of mosquito rearing in the insectary, quantifying parasitemia from non-human primates by microscopy and PCR, infecting and dissecting mosquitoes, assisting with mouse research, performing ELISA assays to characterize antibody responses, and cell culture/tissue processing. Additional duties include maintaining clear and accurate laboratory records, analyzing data and preparing data for presentation, attending lab meetings and journal clubs, and ordering reagents.

The Barklis lab within the department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology is seeking a Research Assistant 2. The research involves biochemical, molecular genetics, and biophysical analysis of virus or cancer gene structure and function. Duties may include cell culture, recombinant DNA, protein characterization, biochemical, biophysical, and electron microscopy (EM) image analysis techniques; and a knowledge of how to analyze data so obtained.