Title: Student Helper
Division: Center for Gene Therapy
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Work Location: Houston, TX
Salary Range: $9.50 per hour
FLSA Status: Nonexempt
Requisition ID: 11358
Summary
The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy hosts an intensive ten-week program, participants are paired with an experienced scientific mentor (graduate student or postdoctoral fellow) and are assigned a research project. Summer students attend an immunology course, run by CAGT graduate students and fellows, which is designed to teach the basics of immunology and to introduce them to translational immunotherapy research being conducted at the center. Students also meet to discuss historical and current papers relevant to their research. At the end of the program, each summer student presents their findings to peers, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty from the CAGT.
Job Duties
- Contribute to on going research studies.
- Learn the basics of laboratory safety and etiquette as well as proper experimental design.
- Complete molecular biology studies including cloning through vector design and tissue culture work to complete functional assays. Techniques will include ELISA, flow cytometry, cytotoxicity assays, and ELISPOT.
- Participate in weekly lab meetings and journal clubs.
- Participate in an introductory immunology course and be required to present in journal clubs and in a final presentation at the end of the summer program.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be a College Student (undergraduate or graduate).
- No experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Must be enrolled in college and be at least 18 years old.
- Undergraduate lab experience.
Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
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