The Chorba Lab seeks a highly motivated Junior Specialist to work as a research technician and laboratory administrator. Under direct supervision and training, the Junior Specialist will work on several highly collaborative projects including 1) the role and druggability of the processing and trafficking pathways of PCSK9 in regulating the LDL receptor, 2) the characterization of CSDE1 as a regulator of LDLR mRNA decay, and 3) the development of methods to chemically perturb protein translation in a sequence specific manner. The incumbent for this position will have many duties relevant to these goals, including the generation of DNA constructs, generation and maintenance of cell lines, and production and purification of recombi