Laboratory Technician
Goalstone Lab (Va Med Center, Dri)
Denver, Co
Research Focus: investigate insulin signaling in RASM cells in relationship to atherosclerosis in Type II Diabetes.Lab Techniques and Equipment Used: micropipetor and autopipetor use, serial dilutions, microscopy, PCR, restriction digests, SDS-PAGE (gel electrophoresis), Western Blotting, spectrophotometry, luminometry, siRNA (RNAi), tissue culture, bacterial culturing, plasmid purifications/preps, immunoprecipitation (IP) for sample preparations, cell lysis, transfections, transformations, BCA assays, RNA collection, Southern and Northern blotting, immunocytochemistry (ICC), densitometry and typhoon analysis.General Lab Duties: making stock solutions, autoclaving, pouring plates, pouring agarose gels, plasmid preps/purifications.