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Center for Public Partnerships & Research · 2 months ago

Student Microbiology Lab Assistant

Topeka Metropolitan Area

Part-time

Onsite

New Grad

$10.25/hr - $10.25/hr

Center for Public Partnerships & Research is seeking a Student Microbiology Lab Assistant to support the Microbiology Laboratory Coordinators in the Media room of Haworth Hall. The role involves preparing media, performing general housekeeping tasks, and ensuring the efficient operation of teaching labs.

Higher Education

Responsibilities

Prepare media for use in all Microbiology labs for use with experiments

Dispose of used media by learning to run an autoclave for proper and safe disposal

Restock any items needed for the preparation of media: petri plates, tubes, caps, flasks etc

Learn to use several pieces of equipment to make media and to dispose of media: autoclaves, omnispense, steam kettle, etc

Clean any used reusable media preparation items-flasks, bottles, tubing for media machines etc

Washing dishes and bins, doing laundry, putting away clean dishes and bins once they are dry

Cleaning equipment, this includes: pipettors, microscopes, incubators, our steam kettle, water baths, media fridges, dusting, etc

Calibrate equipment-pipettors for example

Refill pipette tip boxes, eppy boxes etc. and autoclave them

Inventory of media, reagents, chemicals etc

Temperature checks of incubators and fridges weekly and as needed

Put away any deliveries of supplies or media for Media room to use

Relabel any labels that are old, not able to be read or tearing on reagent bottles, Gram Stain kits etc

Dispose of sterile media, cardboard, or items that need to go to the dumpster for disposal

Disinfecting surfaces, fridges, incubators and labs in between semesters

Qualification

Media preparationAutoclave operationEquipment calibrationInventory managementCleaning labware

Required

Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. for handling lab deliveries

Comfortable standing for extended periods during lab tasks (e.g., fume hood work, media dispensing, labware cleaning)

Availability for shifts of at least 2 consecutive hours, up to 20 hours per week

During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours

For summer periods the student hourly must: (1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or (2) be pre-enrolled in the upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or (3) be enrolled in summer session or (4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester

Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students

Company

Center for Public Partnerships & Research

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