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The Department of Pediatrics is one of the largest departments within the School of Medicine with approximately 171 Faculty, 50 post-doctoral fellows (both MDs and PhDs) along with over 300 support staff (not including hospital staff). In addition, the Department has 57 clinical residents and fellows distributed across the Divisions. The missions of research, education and patient care are intertwined, and are integral to the goals of the department.

The Department's 16 divisions include Academic General Pediatrics, Child Development & Community Health; Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology; Cardiology; Dysmorphology; Emergency Medicine; Endocrinology; Gastroenterology; Genetics; Genome Information Sciences; Hospital Medicine; Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics; Infectious Diseases; Neonatology; Nephrology; and Respiratory Medicine.

In 2001, physicians and leadership of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Rady Children's, and Children's Specialists of San Diego (CSSD) unified pediatric patient care, research, education and community service programs, creating a university-affiliated children's health system to serve the region. Over the past two decades, an extensive list of joint programs has developed, with many physicians and researchers playing a role at both institutions.

This affiliation has consolidated the clinical, teaching, research and public service programs of the UCSD School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics with San Diego's only health care system dedicated to the health and well-being of children. In 2009, this partnership was furthered by the creation of Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego, a Medical Foundation, and is now recognized as having global leaders in research, technology, translational medicine, education and clinical excellence.

Under supervision, the position will help develop research related to allergy, immunology, and infection. Under supervision, the researcher will be responsible for performing laboratory bench experiments related to studies of mouse and human specimens. The incumbent will perform experiments to understand transcriptional changes and surface immunophenotyping as part of multi-omic analysis of human specimens. Other techniques to investigate inflammatory disease include flow cytometry, CyTOF, live cell microscopy, image analysis, immunoblot, ELISA, and purification of myeloid cells. Performs other duties as assigned. Training will be available for all methods, and work is performed as part of multi-investigator studies in highly collaborative work environments.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Theoretical knowledge of a life science as is typically attained with a Bachelors Degree (preferred) in a related field of research such as animal physiology, biology, molecular biology, immunology, and biochemistry or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Demonstrated ability to perform extractions of nucleic acids from blood and biopsy specimens and perform appropriate PCR experiments

• Experience with culture of primary human cells.

• Excellent computer skills and ability to learn new computer programs. Demonstrated knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook.

• Ability to perform data entry and basic graphing with statistical analysis. Ability to perform standard laboratory techniques (pipetting, weighing).

• Ability to read, interpret and apply protocols in conducting research. Ability to follow experimental protocols.

• Effective interpersonal skills. Ability to work with a variety of personnel from different laboratories.

• Courteous attitude and respectful of co-workers, ability to maintain a safe and collegiate workplace environment.

• Demonstrated skill in operation and maintenance of various lab equipment such as microscopes, centrifuges, and PCR thermocyclers.

• Interest in understanding the pathogenesis of human disease. Willingness to learn new lab techniques and tasks and share knowledge of such.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills needed to interact professiona

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