DescriptionThe Semel Institute is seeking to hire a Limited full time Staff Research Assistant 1 (SRA) for a 5 month assignment. In this role you perform behavioral experiments and ex vivo tissue experiments in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. In this role you will: Perform oviposition and oviduct contraction assays in flies.Maintain accurate records of procedures used to conduct experiments, and collect and record lab measurements and data accurately.Assist other members of the lab to perform behavioral, immunohistochemistry and molecular biology experiments.Work with Fluorescent and Confocal Microscopes to determine expression pattern of transgenes used f