Scripps College
Claremont, CA
Claremont, CA Job Posting Title: Research Technician Job Description: PRIMARY PURPOSE/GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Scripps College invites applications to a Research Technician position in the Solomon-Lane Laboratory in the Neuroscience Discipline of the Department of Natural Sciences. Research in the lab focuses on the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a fish model system. The NSF-funded project will specifically investigate early-life social experiences and how they shape behavioral phenotype long-term via developmental plasticity in underlying neural mechanisms, including vasopressin and stress axis signaling. This research may involve behavior testing, hormone sample collection and measurement, tissue collection, analysis of neural tissue, data processing, statistical analysis, and scientific writing. While the overall goal is to collect, interpret, and communicate data, a Research Technician’s work...