Cornell University Work Values

Daily Duties at Cornell University:

What they like about Cornell University:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

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 Cornell University: