Junior/Assistant Specialist - Environmental Health Sciences - School of Public Health

The "Research on Stress and Inequitable Environments" laboratory, led by Dr. de la Rosa, seeks a Junior Specialist or Assistant Specialist in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health. Our research examines the cumulative effects of social adversity and environmental pollutants on biological mechanisms influencing asthma risk in pediatric populations from historically divested communities.

This position supports the NIH-funded EXposomic Profiling in Airway Disease to Unravel Determinants of Disease in Asthma (EXPAND-Asthma) study, which aims to improve understanding of heterogeneous asthma pathobiology linked to socio-environmental exposures, particularly in marginalized populations, to better identify individuals at high risk for poor outcomes.

This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful research advancing health equity and leveraging multi-omics approaches to understand disease mechanisms.

The job duties for this position will include:

* Process and manage human biospecimens (with occasional nights or weekends as needed to accommodate participant schedules) collected from research studies, which include blood, urine, and nasal swabs, for -omics analyses conducted as part of the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium.

* Coordinate transportation of biospecimens between study sites at LifeLong William Jenkins Health Center in Richmond, CA, and UC Berkeley laboratory.

* Update and maintain the REDCap database for biospecimen tracking and management.

* Assist with the shipment of biological samples to external collaborators.

* Collaborating with partners on biospecimen-related matters.

* Assist with conducting molecular biology experiments such as immunoassays, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and cell culture.

* Support administrative activities -General lab organization.

Program: https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/people/rosemarie-de-la-rosa

• Bachelor's degree or international equivalent or enrolled in bachelor's (or international equivalent) program

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent international degree)

• Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Biology, Human Biology, or related field
• Research experience working in a BSL2 Laboratory Environment and/or processing human biospecimens
• Experience with sterile technique and tissue culture
• Experience performing data entry
• Experience conducting molecular laboratory protocols
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Effective written and oral communication of methods and procedures

• 2-4 required (contact information only)

2 required; 2 optional

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