Research Officer- Bone Therapeutics

The Skeletal Diseases Program (co-led by Profs Mike Rogers and Jacqueline Center) is one of six new strategic research programs at the Garvan Institute. This multi-disciplinary team consists of laboratory-based and clinical researchers working together, with national and international partners, to address major challenges in bone health, with a specific focus on osteoporosis and cancer-associated bone disease.

THE OPPORTUNITY

**Salary**: Up to $95,168 + 14% super + salary packaging
Employment Type: 1.5 years term contract (potentially renewable)

SNAP SHOT OF BENEFITS
- Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accomm)
- Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
- Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
- Flexible work arrangements e.g. location, start / finish times etc
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for both parents including paid superannuation
- A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave
- Discounted Health Insurance
- Lifestyle discounts with our community partners

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Performs with mínimal supervision:

- Tissue collection and processing for various types of analyses (e.g. RNAseq, histology, cell culture, flow cytometry, western blotting).
- Cell and tissue culture and cell transfection.
- Immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence staining.
- Basic microscopy and imaging.
- Multicolour flow cytometry.
- RNA isolation and library preparation, real time PCR.
- Western blotting.
- Maintain a high standard of electronic record keeping.

ABOUT YOU

The key skills and experience of a Research Officer include at least some of the following:

- Multicolour flow cytometry skills (essential).
- Microscopy/imaging (essential).
- Animal handling (essential).
- Molecular biology techniques e.g. plasmid preparation, bacterial transformation, cell transfection, RNA isolation and DNA library preparation, real time PCR, RNA-seq (essential).
- Biochemistry techniques e.g. western blotting, enzyme assays, metabolomics (highly desirable).
- Experience of cell culture and lentiviral cell transfection (highly desirable).
- Histology and immunocytochemistry (highly desirable).
- Bioinformatics knowledge (desirable).
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and implement experiments (essential).
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (essential).

Research Officers at the Garvan Institute are expected to possess the following attributes:

- Strong commitment to quality.
- Team-focused approach.
- High degree of flexibility, and ability to follow instructions when required.
- Time management skills and appropriate prioritisation of workload.
- Excellent record keeping habits.
- Good communication skills.
- Comfortable with basic decision making.

ABOUT GARVAN

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision. We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.

Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.

We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.
- Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging._

HOW TO APPLY

**Salary**: Up to $15,900.00 per month