Associate Researcher, Neurosciences

Key Responsibilities

• Manage breeding colonies, including setting up breeding pairs/trios, monitoring breeding performance, weaning, and determining appropriate breeding strategies.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date colony records, including pedigrees, genotypes, breeding history, animal numbers, ages, sex, and experimental availability.
• Coordinate genotyping, including collection and submission of samples, tracking results, and updating colony records.
• Forecast animal requirements with investigators and research staff to ensure appropriate numbers, genotypes, ages, and sexes are available for planned experiments.
• Monitor colony size and breeding efficiency to minimize unnecessary animals, cage usage, and associated costs.
• Coordinate allocation and transfer of animals between breeding and experimental cohorts.
• Regularly review colonies to identify breeders requiring replacement, poorly performing breeding lines, excess animals, and potential shortages.
• Assist with management of complex genetic crosses and maintenance of transgenic, knockout, conditional, and Cre/Flp mouse lines.
• Communicate regularly with laboratory members regarding colony status, expected availability, breeding timelines, and potential issues.
• Coordinate with institutional animal-care/veterinary staff and ensure colony activities are consistent with approved IACUC protocols and institutional policies.
• Maintain organized records of mouse strains and relevant documentation and assist with colony inventories and census reconciliation.
• Help coordinate import, export, quarantine, cryopreservation, and rederivation of mouse lines when required.
• Identify opportunities to improve colony-management workflows and establish standardized procedures across research projects.
• Performs other related duties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science or related field preferred, or combination of relevant research experience and education.
• 0-2 years of research/laboratory experience.
• Previous experience with animal handling is desired.