Job Description

Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking a Laboratory Technician to support the Department of Health and Human Services in Bethesda, MD.

This is a full-time, short-term contract position which offers:

• Access to NIH’s unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives.
• Learn more about what Kelly can do for you at

TASKS/SERVICES:

• Perform entomology scientific support through vaccine product assessment through performing mosquito-parasite assays, membrane feeding assays, maintain several mosquito colonies using established rearing procedures, perform mosquito dissections, and maintain parasites in culture for vaccine candidate assessment.
• Maintain accurate records of experiments in electronic laboratory notebooks, note minor modifications or adaptations used in established methods, procedures and techniques to solve problems. Analyze data collected from experiments using established procedures.
• Perform a wide variety of immunology procedures in support of malaria vaccine discovery including tissue culture, serological assays, ELISA, and liquid chromatography.
• Calibrate and operate a variety of laboratory equipment to perform tests and analysis including but not limited to microscopes, balances, plate readers, spectrophotometers, and pH meters.
• Write reports to state findings from experimental data.
• Organize data and findings into a format acceptable for publication in high impact scientific journals.
• Work products and documents related to maintain accurate, daily records of experiments in a electronic laboratory notebook, supporting malaria vaccine product assessment efforts through performing mosquito-parasite membrane feeding assays, mosquito rearing, dissections, and ex vivo parasite culturing.
• Work products and documentation performing a variety of immunological procedures including tissue cultures, serological assays, ELISA, and column chromatography, and related to calibration and operation of a variety of laboratory equipment.
• Work products and documentation related to writing reports of findings, state methods and procedures, identify modifications to procedures, specimens used, and results of experiments, analysis of results, evaluation and discussing the results from experiments with other members of the lab and the Federal Task Lead.
• Perform preparing stock solutions, media preparations, stocking supplies and preparation of buffers for laboratory experiments.
• Use MS Office suite of software to analyze data to organize experimental data into a format suitable for publication into a scientific journal.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Biology
• Prior experience in rearing insects and/or aseptic tissue culture highly desirable
• Experience working with quality systems and SOPs desirable
• Knowledge of general laboratory sterile technique
• Good documentation skills and attention to detail essential
• Team player with excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and set own schedule to meet experiment deadlines o Interest in malaria vaccinology is highly desired.
• Basic computer skills including experience with Microsoft Word and Excel. More advance experience e.g. familiarity with PowerPoint, statistical software, SharePoint, TEAMS, and database management is highly desirable

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