Location: Irvine, CA
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Overview: Founded in 1965, **UC Irvine** is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced five Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UC Irvine has more than 36,000 students and offers 224 degree programs. It’s located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $7 billion annually to the local economy and $8 billion statewide. To learn more about UC Irvine, visit www.uci.edu. The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UC Irvine Health School of Medicine is dedicated to the diagnosis and understanding of human diseases through biomedical and clinical research. Using the latest technologies, our pathologists help advance medicine by finding better ways of diagnosing, managing and treating diseases. Responsibilities: The laboratory derives choroid plexus epithelial cells (CPECS) from various lines of human stem cells to assess the possible contribution of CPECs to the risk of genetically influenced diseases. Under supervision, the incumbent will perform routine experimental procedures and lab chores, including establishing and maintaining cultures of human iPSCs and ESCs, deriving CPECs in multi-well chamber slides, performing experimental treatments of derived CPECs, phenotypic analyses of cultured cells involving immunostaining, microscopy, and digital image analysis, general lab support (making stock solutions, ordering, and maintaining lab databases), and maintenance of written records of these tasks. Qualifications: **Required:** - Human stem cell culture experience - Immunocytochemistry experience - Confocal fluorescence microscopy experience - Ability to read and follow detailed written instructions - Ability to record results and ob