The University of Iowa Research Internship Recruitment

• Seek training, experience, and mentoring in a research setting
• Plan to pursue a graduate or professional degree in science, medicine or a related field
• Have US citizenship or permanent residency

See Post-Baccalaureate Research Internship website: http://research.uiowa.edu/students/post-baccalaureate-research-internship

Position Description

The laboratory of Dr. Wendy Maury in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine has an opening for a post-baccalaureate research intern position.

BASIC FUNCTION AND RESPONSIBILITY

Position Responsibilities:

• Perform library and online research on specified topics for use in experimentation.
• Perform experimental studies based on given hypotheses and goals; evaluate and record outcomes of experiments based on hypotheses and goals and submit for investigator’s inspection.
• Assist in the analysis and interpretation of experiments.
• Observe techniques in other laboratories.

Basic knowledge of each of the following:

• General microbiologic techniques, such as culture, storage, and safe handling of pathogenic agents.
• Standard molecular techniques, including PCR, qPCR, plasmid purification, bacterial transformation, agarose gel electrophoresis, restriction enzyme analyses, western blotting, and ELISA.
• Handling infectious animal and/or human tissues.
• Mammalian cell culture and sterile techniques.
• Immunofluorescence and Electron microscopy.
• Gathering, recording, and analyzing of experimental data.

• Passaging and maintaining various cell lines.
• Immunofluorescence microscopy.
• Confocal microscopy
• Handling animals, including but not restricted to IV injections, blood collection, and performing in vivo experiments with the animals.