Laboratory Manager

Summary

The McGinley lab in the Neuroscience Department at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a to hire a laboratory manager to serve as a managerial member of our cutting-edge and vibrant research lab. Will facilitate our complex and multi-faceted lab running smoothly.

Matthew McGinley Lab (bcm.edu)

McGinley Lab | Cain Labs (texaschildrens.org)

Matthew McGinley | Neuroengineering | Rice University

Job Duties

• Serves as supervisor of research technicians and undergraduate assistants, and coordinates with graduate students, postdocs, staff scientists, staff engineers, and other personnel.
• Oversees data management, including pre-processing and pipelining of experimental data, transfer to and organization of data servers, and ongoing pipeline improvement.
• Learns the inner-workings of our high-throughput rodent behavioral training approaches so that best practices can be standardized over long time periods and stably flow into the proper channels.
• Contributes to executing rodent behavior experiments and/or other experiments, such as animal surgeries, based on interest and past experience.
• Oversees animal colony management, including genotyping, microchipping, and record keeping.
• Establishes and maintains protocol documents for behavior, physiology, and data analysis pipelines.
• Oversees general lab functioning and maintenance, including:
  • Supports communication between different lab members.
  • Becomes familiar with the different lab projects.
  • Becomes familiar with animal protocol and assist with amendments.
  • Helps coordinate schedules for shared experimental stations.
  • Helps order supplies and equipment, including coordinating between lab members and administrative support.
  • Maintains the lab meeting schedule.
  • Assists with upkeep and replacement of experimental components.
  • Keeps up with inspection dates and requirements.
  • Helps keep the lab clean and organized.
  • Coordinates with contracted web developer to maintain the lab website and lab wiki.
  • Liaises between the lab and outside world, including vendors and BCM IT, HR, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Basic Science or related field. Four years of related experience may substitute for degree requirement.
• Five years of relevant experience, with prior supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in high-caliber research settings.
• Experience with animal behavior, animal surgeries, brain physiology, or computation.
• Knowledge of software/hardware relating to behavioral and/or physiological data acquisition and analyses (e.g. Python, Matlab, LabVIEW).

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.