The responsibilities of this position encompass development and performance of new specialty laboratory procedures. This includes Standard Operating Procedure generation, training, purchase, and validation of applicable supplies and instrumentation. Also, analysis and coordination of activities in PCR amplification and electrophoretic separation of amplified material, cloning, genetic analyses, knowledge of protein expression and purification, tissue culture, B-LCL cell line generation, antibody neutralization procedures and PBMC isolation techniques. Responsible for handling samples collected from non-human primates, isolate cells from blood, bone marrow and other tissues.