Killifish Aquaculture Technician - Stanford University
The department of Genetics at Stanford university is looking for a reliable, organized, and motivated full-time fish technician/laboratory assistant to help with ongoing aging research using a the African turquoise killifish as a model system. Prior experience with fish is highly preferred. Good communication skills are required, as well as ability to function in a multidisciplinary research environment.
Duties include:
- Maintain various strains of fish
- Maintain the Aquatic Housing Systems, including checking water parameters, regular feeding, sterilize fish tanks etc.’
- Recognize and report signs of illness or behavioral abnormalities
- Take fish census and record information, such as deaths.
- Maintain accurate and compete records on fish inventory and breeding
- Treat animal under the direction of a post-doctoral fellow
- Set-up breeding tanks and collect fish eggs, and hatch new embryos of fish
- Perform complex lab procedures such as genotyping.
- Perform complex lab procedures such as injecting DNA and RNA into fertilized eggs (fish transgenesis).
- Organize the fish room.
- Feeding the fish during the weekend – twice a month.
Qualifications:
- At least two years of animal care experience in a research or animal laboratory
- Experience working with fish is high desired
- Demonstrated habits of cleanliness and neatness
- Ability to keep detailed records pertaining to animal census and water parameter
- Ability to follow oral and written instruction in English
- Understanding the techniques required to care for fish
- Ability to operate a variety of equipment, such as sterilizing equipment
- Ability to lift and move a minimum of 30 pounds
- Ability to work in a pathogen-free environment using established procedures
- Computer experience in order to maintain breeding records and other documents preferred