Molecular Biologist Jobs

AJANTA CONSULTING, LLC

Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH

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The Molecular Biologist will support the 711^th Human Performance Wing headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

• Assist PHT staff in developing and optimizing procedures for pathogen and infectious disease testing. Including the design and synthesis of primers and probes for those procedures.
• Support the preparation of reports of program initiatives as related to the project at the direction and input of PHT staff.
• Assist with the preparation, coordination, and submission of protocol-related documents to Institutional Review Boards (IRB) or Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC).
• Other duties as assigned.
• Assist biological and medical scientists in laboratories, setting up, operating, and maintaining laboratory instruments & equipment, monitoring experiments, making observations, and calculating/recording results.
• Perform next generation sequencing, PCR, and bioinformatics as needed in support of various projects research objectives.
• Support the laboratory with other tasks as required to ensure proper function of the laboratory, including but not limited to communal solid waste disposal, and general laboratory maintenance procedures.
• Support experimental planning/design, protocol training and execution, and data collection and analysis.
• Perform experiments within a high containment lab in support of ongoing BSL-3 level efforts, being able to don a power air purifying respirator and full body personal protective equipment, for multiple hours per day.
• Support pursuit of funding opportunities, and development, reporting, and editing of competitive, well-written, full drafts of research proposals, papers, and presentations as related to the project.
• Perform DNA extraction from samples, generate genomic data through molecular techniques, and characterize genomic variation using phylogenetic tools.
• Update/conduct review of scientific literature relevant to the research initiatives.

• Master’s degree or certification in Personal and Executive Coaching
• Minimum twenty (20) years professional experience working with organizations to improve the behaviors and the personal and professional development experiences of each team member.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Experience with microbiology and/or analytical chemistry.
• Possess knowledge and experience working with and under clinical laboratory regulations and processes in which new assays may need to be optimized to perform.
• Experience with advanced molecular characterization technologies: qRT-PCR with experience operating and maintaining ABI systems, and/or next generation sequencing (short and long read technologies); trained and experienced in oligo synthesis including the operation of technical equipment.
• Possess experience and aptitude in bioinformatics analysis of ‘omics data, including Linux based command line tools and pipelines, batch scripting, with a demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and develop tools as needed.
• Possess excellent organizational, management, and communications skills including writing ability.
• Experience in molecular biology: nucleic acid extraction, PCR, protein characterization, gel electrophoresis, probe/primer design and validation, hybrid capture methodologies, molecular cloning.
• Experience creating and working with virtual computing environments.
• Possess a documented history of scientific writing as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, and/or conference proceedings (abstracts, posters, oral presentations, session chairpersonships, or similar).
• Experience in mammalian and microbiological culturing: line maintenance, expression vector selection, STEM cell culture and stabilization, anaerobic and aerobic culture constraints, differential species identifications, anaerobic glove box culture.

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

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