Research Assistant

2 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia The Garvan Institute of Medical Research Full time

THE OPPORTUNITY
This is an exciting opportunity to work on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie immune diseases such as allergy and autoimmunity. The research assistant will be working under the supervision of Prof Tri Phan and A/Prof Elissa Deenick whose labs are part of the Precision Immunology program at Garvan.

The projects will involve analysing lymphocyte function in samples from individuals with immune diseases such as allergy and autoimmunity as well as mouse models of disease.

**Salary**: $71,278 + super + salary packaging

Employment Type: One-year, fixed-term, fulltime contract

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/accom)
- Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
- Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
- 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
- Conduct experiments under supervision such as tissue culture, flow cytometry, maintenance and monitoring of mouse colonies and routine assays
- Record experimental procedures and results
- Regularly attend lab meetings
- Be involved in junior lab responsibilities such as:

- Store duties, wash-up and cleaning of shared rooms
- Stock control: monitoring and ordering consumables under supervision
- Media preparation
- Responsible for imparting knowledge in relation to limited skills or experimental expertise

ABOUT YOU
- Essential_
- Bachelors’ Degree in Science or Medicine (with Honours), preferably in immunology or a related field
- Experience with multiparameter flow cytometry
- Experience working with human blood samples or mouse tissue samples
- Experience with tissues culture
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Desirable: _
- Experience with handling mice
- Experience with molecular techniques e.g. RNA prep, PCR
- Experience with Flowjo

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

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