Student Helper
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Job posting number: #7122229 (Ref:14540-en_US)
Posted: January 27, 2023
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Summary
The McGinley lab at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a Student Lab helper for Spring 2023. The primary responsibility for this position will be assisting and conducting auditory experiments involving rodents. The student is expected to dedicate around 10 hours per week for the position duties.
Job Duties
- Assists and runs all aspects of rodent experiments on a variety of behavioral tasks, including set-up, monitoring, and handling animals during experiments.
- Maintains various components of experimental rigs.
- Manages, processes, and oversees storage of experimental data.
- Performs routine analysis of experimental data to track task performance of rodents.
- Cares for animals outside of experiments, including feeding and transferring to/from the animal facility
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be a High School or College Student (undergraduate or graduate).
- No experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Rodent handling experience is not required but preferred; we will train new personnel on equipment use, software, animal behavior and care.
- Familiarity or willingness to learn multiple platforms, including LabVIEW and Python, to run task logic for behavioral experiments.
- Ability to work collaboratively with fellow members in the lab.
Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
14540
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Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.
