Overview
This position will involve working with high fat diet induced obesity model and evaluate genotype-dependent effects on metabolic parameters to study gene regulation in obesity.
Duties and responsibilities:
(*) Will design experiments and prepares graphs of scientific data.
(*) Carry out a high fat diet induced obesity model and maintain mouse colonies and records.
(*) Perform metabolic testing (glucose and insulin tolerance tests and insulin signaling studies).
(*) Harvest, isolate and collect murine cells and tissues and establish primary cell cultures.
(*) Perform western blotting, qPCR and ELISAs and carry out gene regulation studies.
(*) Perform confocal microscopy, immunoprecipitation and density gradient studies, FACS analysis and cell sorting and perform other related duties, tasks and responsibilities as required or assigned.
About The Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute, one of the world's largest, private, non-profit research organizations, stands at the forefront of basic biomedical science, a vital segment of medical research that seeks to comprehend the most fundamental processes of life. Over the last decades, the institute has established a lengthy track record of major contributions to the betterment of health and the human condition.