Research Technician (tissue processing and cell culture)
On-siteRedwood City, California, United States
Redwood City, California, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeSmall
Full TimeSmall
Job Summary
Execute day-to-day isolation of immune cells from mouse blood, bones, and spleen tissues to drive engraftment results. Coordinate with the in vivo team for prompt material handling in preclinical studies and support media preparation, changes, and cell culture maintenance for iPSC/iHSC differentiation workflows, including weekend coverage. Assist with sample prep and handoff for downstream assays like flow cytometry while maintaining accurate labels, logs, inventory, and reagent tracking. Organize large datasets from readouts and contribute to SOPs and process improvements to keep the work area clean and efficient.
Required Qualifications
- You're reliable and organized
- skilled at hands-on, time-sensitive lab work
- You're comfortable with mouse tissues and primary samples
- meticulous about labeling, timing, and records
- You're collaborative and easy-going
- You communicate proactively
- You bring a positive attitude to a fast-moving environment
- You like being the person a team can count on to be consistent
- you understand that routines can always be improved
- Have experience working in a lab environment in an academic or industry setting
- Are comfortable working with mouse tissues
- Have basic mammalian cell culture experience
- Are highly organized and reliable, with high attention to detail
- Can execute repetitive, schedule-sensitive workflows consistently and carefully
- Follow SOPs and checklists while flagging issues and ideas quickly
Desired Qualifications
- Have experience processing primary samples - blood, bone marrow, spleen, or similar
- Culturing iPSC and/or primary HSC cells
- Analyzing cell composition using flow cytometry, including operation of a CytoFLEX
- Performing antibody staining and preparing immune or hematopoietic samples for flow cytometry
- experience developing or optimizing staining panels
- Managing and organizing large sample datasets (750+ samples) ensuring sample traceability
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