Position Summary:

• Maintains animal colony, carry out animal husbandry and post-operative care, maintain records, and carries out auditory, visual, and vestibular physiological recordings.
• Trains animals and run behavioral experiments to assess associative and perceptual learning in Gerbils.
• Carries out post-experiment processing of brain tissue (histology).
• Assists with microscopy and anatomical analysis of processed brain tissue.
• Performs auditory (e.g., earplugging) and visual (e.g., eye opening) manipulations in neonates (noise/light exposure) and adults (noise exposure/drug exposure).s
• Maintains accurate records of experimentation and research, assist with data entry and analysis.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• One (1) year of previous laboratory and/or animal handling experience. 

City: Piscataway

State: NJ

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Special Conditions:

• This is a full-time laboratory assistant position for 40 hours per week (5, 8-hour days) which may include working on weekends when training animal cohorts. 

Posting Number: 25ST1362

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