Job Abstract

Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with one of the most prestigious research organizations in the world. We are currently seeking a Biological Scientist with the National Institutes of Health in, Maryland. 

Scope:
The contractor position will support research activities related to the functional genomics pipeline. The purpose of this position is to support an FGL scientist in conducting and analyzing high throughput RNAi and CRISPR screens as well as evaluate tools for the development of CRISPR screen assays.

Specific Qualifications:

Certifications & Licenses – Molecular Biology Experience – DNA sequencing analysis Experience – Minimum of 2 years of relevant Laboratory experience in biological sciences – Mammalian cell culture experience – M.S. in cell or molecular biology or genetics or similar

Field of Study – Biology – Genetics – Molecular Biology

Software – GraphPad Prism – PowerPoint – Excel – MS office

Skills – maintaining accurate and detailed records of laboratory experiments – Sequencing analysis skills – Molecular Biology Skills – Excellent organizational and time management skills – Mammalian cell culture experience – strong communications skills, both oral and written

Tasks:
Provides technical experience needed to assist in studying the basic principles of plant and animal life Collaborate with federal task leader to learn and employ multiple techniques involved in RNAi and CRISPR assay development and validation for various projects, including but not limited to sterile cell culture technique, qRT-PCR, reporter cell-based assays, enzyme assays, and culturing complex 3D models such as organoids. Regularly update and maintain laboratory notebooks, databases, and inventory files.

Assists with performing basic laboratory experiments and procedures.
Analyze experimental data and interpret results to write reports and summaries of findings Conduct RNAi screens based on optimized assays Demonstrate lab citizenship; including but not limited to restocking general laboratory consumables, maintaining cell culture lab, emptying laboratory waste, validating machinery and maintaining personal as well as lab inventories of chemicals, freezers, cell lines, and biologics.

Prepares, organizes, and maintains various lab samples, supplies, and equipment.
Operate, calibrate, or maintain equipment used in quantitative or qualitative analysis, such as spectrophotometers, calorimeters, flame photometers, or computer-controlled analyzers Maintain laboratory equipment Operate laboratory equipment to analyze samples.

Analyze laboratory findings.
Amplify and purify transfection and packaging ready plasmids. Prepare, aliquot and store various supplements needed for complex cell culture models, keep track of inventories of supplements prepared.

Prepare, bulk up and QC reagents for CRISPR screens.
Learns new laboratory techniques and procedures Program and use computers to store, process, and analyze data Interpret research or operational data Record research or operational data Learn the workflow of pooled and arrayed CRISPR screens and implement it Learn the maintenance, expansion and cryopreservation of organoids, their lentiviral infection, and their high content imaging.

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