New Brunswick, NJ, USA
7 days ago
Temporary Research Assistant
Recruitment/Posting Title Temporary Research Assistant Job Category Staff & Executive - Healthcare Department NJMS-Microbiology Overview New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives. Posting Summary Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Temporary Research Assistant for NJMS- Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular genetics. The Temporary Research Assistant will pursue efforts at developing an assay to identify small molecule blockers of protein biosynthesis in microbes for the development of new antibacterial drug treatments. The assay measurees the physical assembly of the complex between Ef- Tu and tRNA, the key components of the ribosomal translation machinery in the microbes, in a GTP- dependent manner.

Among the key duties of the following: Protein and tRNA purification and analysis and for preparations for HTS Protein and nucleic acid expression and purification, expression in bacterial system, chromatographic separations, protein and nucleic acid labeling and fluorescence methods. Performing protein biosynthesis and in vitro translation assays. Conjugation of fluorescent dyes to the components of the ribosomal translation system and characterization of the conjugates by fluorescence spectroscopy.



Position Status Part Time Hours Per Week Daily Work Shift Day Work Arrangement FLSA Nonexempt Grade 99H Position Salary $26 per hour Annual Minimum Salary 00.00 Annual Mid Range Salary 0.00 Annual Maximum Salary 0.00 Standard Hours 35.00 Union Description Hourly Employees Payroll Designation PeopleSoft Benefits Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.



Seniority Unit Terms of Appointment Temporary Staff Appointment - Hourly Position Pension Eligibility None
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