Required:

• Cell culture experience including aseptic technique and primary cell culture
• Ability to perform general laboratory techniques such as weighing, sterilizing, titration, glassware washing, filtering, reagent and buffer prep, maintaining sterile technique.
• Knowledge and understanding of molecular techniques.
• Skill in keeping accurate and complete research records.
• Ability to recognize irregularities and invalid results.
• Ability to make sound measurements and observations.
• Ability to work as part of a research team and establish cooperative working relationships with researchers, residents, students, and other support personnel
• Ability to communicate in oral and written form, for the purpose of providing information to others in the laboratory. This includes the ability to record findings and methods in a laboratory journal in an accurate, complete, and timely way.
• Ability to read and understand experimental protocols as guidelines. 
• Mathematical skills to calculate chemical and biological concentrations in solutions.
• Organized, detail oriented, and able to quickly adapt to the addition of novel tasks.

Preferred:

• Ability to conduct multiple experiments in close temporal proximity.
• Knowledge of how to use and maintain modern laboratory equipment including incubators, tissue culture hoods, centrifuges, balances, and pH meter.