Southern Illinois University Work Values

Daily Duties at Southern Illinois University:

• Supervise and train graduate and undergraduate students in laboratory • Design research experiments, conduct research, analyze data, prepare data, present data • Collect samples and analyze samples o Animal, cell culture, microbial, and human • Collaborate and coordinate research experiments with faculty from outside departments • Safety Liaison- which includes, maintaining training records, inspecting laboratories monthly, ordering, and MSDS records • Teach classes and labs within Animal Science • Prepare standards and reagents, quality control on standards and protocols, gas chromatography, antibody assays, environmental sample analysis, maintain equipment, ordering, inventory, scheduling, budget maintenance, hazardous chemical waste disposal pick up, analysis and records, sample collection from animals; including ruminants, swine, mice, and rats Technical Experience: • Equipment: o PCR; real time PCR; plate reader; autoclaves; spectrophotometers; nanodrop o Gas chromatography; HPLC; Atomic Absorption; GUAVA; LECO Nitrogen analyzer, kjeldahl o Dual flow Continuous Culture System; ANKOM o Centrifuges; autoclaves; analytical balances; microscopes • Assays and Techniques: o For E. coli strains, Salmonella strains, and Clostridium strains, numerous rumen bacterial strains, potential bio-terrorism strains, human health infection causing strains:  Microbial inoculation, microbial production, media production, microbial identification, and microbial assays  Diagnostic testing  Clinical testing  Protein, gram staining  Gas chromatography-identification  DNA and RNA extractions  PCR assays, real-time PCR assays, westerns, transfections, transductions, and transformations o Fatty acid extractions for the following samples:  Blood; tissue; feed; soybeans; milk; beer; meat, forage o cell culture for attached and free floating cells  cell counting, cell morphology, lipid analysis  DNA extractions, RNA extractions  apoptosis assays, SNP analysis, gene chip analysis, westerns  Media production, radiation experiments  transfections, transductions, and transformations o real time PCR  bioterrorism agents  SNP analysis: • blood samples • Hair • Saliva • cells o Electrophoresis:  SDS page, DGGE, and agarose o ELISAs:  Cortisol, ergot, glucose • Blood, saliva, urine, plant tissue o Proximate analysis of forage, feed, seeds, intestinal content, and feces:  Dry matter, ash, ADF, NDF, crude protein, and minerals o Environmental: Soil & Water  Sampling and quality testing  COD, pH, dry matter, ash, organic matter, porosity, microbial analysis and identification  Nitrates, nitrites, phosphorous, phosphates, and other mineral analysis

What they like about Southern Illinois 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.

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Microbiology, Nutrition, Quality assurance, Research, equipment maintenance, teaching

Skills

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Southern Illinois University: