The successful candidate will have priority tasks in the following areas: • Independent experimental design, implementation, analysis, time management, and reporting • Preparation and adherence to new scientific protocols, specimen evaluation, and biostatistics • Coauthorship of scientific papers, grants, presentations, and summary reports • Contribution to research methods, solutions, and technical approaches for problem solving • Data collection, data analysis, statistics, and visualizations • Management of trainees for molecular biology skills, biosafety measures, lab policies, equipment, proper record keeping, organismal maintenance, and performance review • Various experimental tasks, including but not limited to insect handling, tissue dissections, biological marker staining, fluorescent microscopy, microinjections, protein biology, biochemistry, and genotyping and quantification of insect and symbiont cells using PCR and qPCR • Daily handling and maintenance of laboratory insect colonies at the scale of hundreds to thousands of insects per day • Troubleshooting of emergencies, day-to-day questions by lab members, and laboratory scheduling • Assistance of lab management and ongoing entomology, microbiology, molecular biology experiments, as assigned • Maintenance of a welcoming, safe, and professional environment adherent to lab expectations. The Bordenstein Laboratory in Penn State University's Departments of Biology and Entomology and One Health Microbiome Center seeks a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in host-microbe symbioses and the microbiome sciences spanning insect endosymbionts, bacteriophages, and various animal-associated microbiomes.