<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Hi everyone,</font><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Andrea recently let me know about this great lab manager position with the Brosi lab (description below), which is open to graduating seniors. It's due around May 6th. Please let us know if you have any questions!</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Best,</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Annika</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">The </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="http://www.brosilab.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Brosi lab</a><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> in the Biology Department of the University of Washington (Seattle) is recruiting a lab manager to begin in September of 2022. Our research is focused on plant-pollinator community ecology, integrating across field, modeling, and laboratory work. We strive for a dynamic, productive, and positive work environment. We are committed to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in science and we encourage applications from the broadest range of groups that have been under-represented in the sciences.</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">For more information and to apply, the official posting is </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=203417&szCandidateID=0&szReturnToSearch=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">here</a><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">. The position will remain open until filled, but for priority consideration please apply by 6 May 2022.</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Below is more information on the position responsibilities and qualifications. If you have substantive questions about the position, you can contact Berry Brosi: </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" aria-haspopup="menu" aria-expanded="false" href="mailto:bbrosi@uw.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">bbrosi@uw.edu<span aria-label="(opens in new tab)" style="box-sizing:inherit"></span></a><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">, but please do not send an email just to introduce yourself or let me know that you applied.</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Position responsibilities</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Research (50%):</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Research activities include field data collection on plants, pollinators, and plant-pollinator interactions; identification and curation of insect and plant specimens; basic molecular biology techniques including DNA extraction, amplification, and preparation for sequencing; maintaining live pollinators for behavioral study (including occasionally during non-standard hours); carrying out behavioral experiments with live pollinators; potential for tasks associated with research-related beekeeping; developing and maintaining computer-controlled foraging chamber; data and database management, cleaning, and wrangling; participation in laboratory meetings; potential for data analysis; potential for scientific literature searching / synthesizing; potential for scientific editing and writing; potential for development and presentation of scientific posters and / or talks; potential for creation, maintenance, and / or extension of computational and/or mathematical models; potential to take part in learning and/or training activities related to research</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">PROJECT MANAGEMENT (30%)</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Management activities include helping develop and managing project timelines and deliverables; managing lab calendar; managing laboratory safety / EHSO compliance including ensuring compliance of lab members with regulations; managing and updating the laboratory website and social media accounts; ordering supplies; organizing laboratory meetings; organizing and executing laboratory communications; interacting with research collaborators; scheduling research related meetings; planning and executing logistics related to field work including securing and / or reserving permits / field station / lodging / field vehicles; scientific paper submission; managing laboratory GitHub projects and data in data repositories; contributing to activities related to grant proposal development and submission (e.g. development of conflict-of-interest lists; filling out and uploading grant-related forms); contributing to budget / spending management including reimbursement; contributing to reporting to granting agencies; maintaining inventories of equipment, supplies, and samples; contributing to planning and allocating laboratory space for projects; organizing and maintaining tidiness of laboratory and other research spaces; maintenance of laboratory and field equipment</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">UNDERGRADUATE SUPERVISION (15%)</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Undergraduate supervision activities include instructing and supervising (both remotely and in person) undergraduates in data collection efforts; scheduling undergraduate research student time in the lab; keeping track of undergraduate contact information and personal / academic schedules; developing and carrying out undergraduate enrichment activities; maintaining positive professional relationships and open lines of communication with laboratory undergraduates</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">RESEARCH OUTREACH (5%)</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Maintain and contribute to ongoing development of a portfolio of outreach materials and activities; coordinate outreach activities with lab members; contribute to outreach activities (typically off-site and including occasionally during non-standard hours)</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Required qualifications</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Education: </b><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, biology, or a related field.</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Relevant Skills</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">experience conducting ecological field research; experience entering, managing, and analyzing ecological field data; some experience with managing others (particularly undergraduates) conducting ecological field work; background knowledge necessary to quickly learn and understand basic molecular biology techniques used in DNA barcoding / metabarcoding</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Technical Skills</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">some experience with identification of plants and insects; basic proficiency with spreadsheet software (e.g. Microsoft Excel); some experience with the R statistical programming language</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Desired qualifications</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Hands-on experience with plant reproductive biology including hand-pollination experiments and measuring seed set; experience with plant-pollinator network data collection; identification of plants and pollinating insects; basic proficiency with spreadsheet software (e.g. Microsoft Excel) and the R statistical programming language; field ecological data collection experience in the montane Western US; plant and insect identification experience in the montane Western US; direct experience collecting plant-pollinator network data in the field; scientific manuscript and poster development; experience with Rmarkdown and GitHub.</span></font></span><span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">NOTE: </b><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">We do not expect that any one applicant will have all of the desired qualifications for this position.</span><br clear="all"></font></span><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">-- <br></font></span><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">Annika Rose-Person | she/her/hers</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">PhD Candidate | Rafferty Lab</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">University of California, Riverside</font><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><a href="mailto:arose012@ucr.edu" style="" target="_blank">arose012@ucr.edu</a><br></font></span></div><div style=""><a href="mailto:arosepe@gmail.com" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">arosepe@gmail.com</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>