Arc Institute
Research Associate II, Konermann Lab
Palo Alto, CA · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentRESTBioinformaticsqPCRCRISPRMolecular BiologyCell CultureResearchProtein AnalysisWestern BlottingCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingCritical Thinking
About the role
- About Arc Institute Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization at the interface of artificial intelligence and biology, working to accelerate scientific progress and understand the root causes of complex diseases.
- Arc's Technology Centers and Core Investigator labs work side by side, integrating experimental and computational biology under one roof to tackle problems neither could solve alone.
Responsibilities
- You love to collaborate and help others. Science is a team effort and you pride yourself in taking the initiative to help out.
Requirements
- You are curious and eager to learn about unsolved questions in biological medicine.
- You are detail-oriented.
- You are careful and diligent about good documentation practices and good lab practices.
Skills
- More than 300 Arconauts work together at our Palo Alto headquarters, backed by substantial long-term philanthropic funding.
- About the position
Compensation
- Perform molecular and cellular experiments including mammalian cell culture, transfection, Western blot, RT-qPCR, and immunostaining.
- Perform imaging-based screening at the organelle level (particularly, lysosome and lipid droplet)
- Perform lipid-based assay including lipid extraction and lipidomics
- Collaborate closely with a scientist in the laboratory to conduct large-scale screening of genetic modifiers of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease using stem cell-derived brain models.
- Learn various cutting-edge techniques while participating in a project at the intersection of neuroscience, stem cell biology, and genomics.
- Learn to conduct experimental planning, execution, analysis, troubleshooting, and data interpretation with a high degree of independence and continued support from the rest of the team.
Company info
- About Arc Institute
- Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization at the interface of artificial intelligence and biology, working to accelerate scientific progress and understand the root causes of complex diseases.
- Founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, Arc partners with Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco.
- Unlike academia, our scientists have long-term funding and industry-like resources.
- Unlike industry, they're free to pursue high-risk, long-term research without commercial pressures.
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