Research Assistant 2 - Military veterans preferred

Oregon Health & Science University

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Research Assistant 2

US-OR-Portland

Job ID: 2025-34757
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Research
Portland, OR (Waterfront)

Overview

• Conducts experiments on chicken embryos, including but not limited to manipulations, imaging, sample collection and processing
  OR
• Develop and implement computational models of the heart.
• Coordinates work with collaborators – e.g. data and sample transfer when needed. 
• Reviews and analyzes literature related to the project, stays up to date with developments in the field of the project.
• Assists in writing scientific publications that report project data and results, as well as publications that summarizes efforts on the field.
• Presents data and results related to the project.
• Independently manages lab supply purchases as needed for project. Monitors lab expenditures. 

• Bachelor's in relevant field OR

• Associate's AND

• 3 years of relevant experience OR

• 4 years of relevant experience OR

• Equivalent combination of training and experience

• College level biology lab experience or experience with biomechanics/mechanics concepts and labs.

• Ability to manipulate tiny embryos under the microscope or setup computer simulations. Attention to detail.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent organizational skills, and outstanding analytical skills to gather, analyze and interpret data.

• Experience manipulating and staging chicken embryos, and collecting samples from them.

• Experience preparing samples for confocal/histological imaging, and confocal/histological imaging acquisition.

• Experience with in vivo imaging.

• Experience with image analysis and segmentation.

• Experience with computational modeling (FEA, CFD).

• Image analysis skills.

• Use of MatLab programming and/or other programming languages.

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