Cedars Sinai Medical Center Work Values

Daily Duties at Cedars Sinai Medical Center:

Supervise research associates, graduate students, and medical fellows.
Design, conduct, and implement experiments.
Maintain notebook, stock cultures and mouse colonies.
Prepare manuscripts.
Assist grant writing.

What they like about Cedars Sinai Medical Center:

You highly value a work environment built on a formal structure, rules, and regulations. You do not enjoy the unpredictability of shifting priorities and deadlines that upset your routine. You require and enjoy direction, input and accountability as part of your work environment. You have a strong need to participate in making key decisions and feel left out if your superiors or co-workers do not seek your input when making decisions. You thrive on providing good customer service to both internal or external customers, and doing so makes you feel good.

Tags

infectious diseases, immunology, research, bacteriology, microbial pathogenesis, microbiology, aging, animal models

Skills

• Various DNA and RNA techniques, including cloning and plasmid design, polymerase chain reactions, southern blotting techniques, RNA isolation, and primer extension, • Microscopy techniques: Immunofluorescent microscopy, confocal microscopy, and immunohistochemistry analyses, • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, • In vivo modeling of infectious diseases including skin and soft tissue infections, sepsis, and pneumonia, • Mouse breeding, and generation and validation of humanized mouse, • Various in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro drug and antimicrobial assays, including neutrophil killing assay, whole blood killing assay, macrophage killing assay, and intracellular bacteria persistence assay, • Primary cells isolation and maintenance, • Human and mouse tissue cultures maintenance, • Western blot analyses, • Protein knockdown using siRNA, • Protein overexpression and isolations , • Flow cytometry analyses

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Cedars Sinai Medical Center: