Laboratory Technologist Job Opportunities – MRC/UVRI
Job Title: Laboratory Technologist
Organization: MRC/UVRI
Duty Station: Entebbe & Masaka, Uganda
About US:
The Unit is an internationally recognised centre of excellence with dominant research themes in the areas of HIV and emerging infections, vaccines and immunity, and chronic diseases and cancer. Through a multidisciplinary approach, intersecting basic science, epidemiological research, social-behavioural research and the conduct of new intervention evaluation studies, the Unit contributes knowledge on changing epidemics and diseases, the evaluation of innovative health care options, treatment and prevention and the development of health policy and practice in Africa and worldwide. Following the signing of strategic transfer agreements between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Medical Research Council (MRC UK), the Unit formally joined LSHTM on 1st February 2018. The exciting new partnership will boost research capacity into current and emerging health issues in Africa and throughout the world. The Unit is based at the UVRI Entebbe campus with established outposts in Kalungu, Masaka, Wakiso and Kampala Districts. .
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The position will be responsible for conducting laboratory assays and experiments, make detailed observations and analyze complex data in a timely manner Some
- Process, stain and acquire stained samples through the flow cytometer following standard operating procedures.
- Analyze data from mass and fluorescence flow cytometers using FlowJo, GraphPad Prism, R, Bioconductor and other dimensional reduction algorithms including tSNE, FlowSOM, SPADE, UMAP
- Analysis of single cell RNA sequences, pathogen sequences, metabolome data etc.
- Receiving, processing and storing study samples according to SOPs so as to maximise their quality in subsequent testing
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must have relevant qualifications, skills and experience
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified candidates should send their applications should be addressed to: The Human Resource and Administration Manager, MRC/ UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, P.O. Box, 49, Entebbe, Uganda. Consider your application unsuccessful if not contacted within six (6) weeks after the closing date of the advert and any form of lobbying at any stage will lead to automatic disqualification
Deadline: 13th December 2019 by 5:00pm.