These procedures may include: preparation of solutions and media, growth of bacterial cultures, DNA mini- and midi-preps, submitting DNA samples for Sanger and Illumina DNA sequencing, preparation of E. coli glycerol stocks, mammalian cell culture, CRISPR/Cas genome editing, Gateway recombinational cloning, preparation of Illumina DNA sequencing libraries, restriction enzyme based or Gibson assembly DNA cloning, expression and purification of recombinant proteins, DNA and protein gel electrophoresis, electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA), PCR, Western blots, Coomassie or other staining of protein gels, in vitro transcription and translation, quantitative real-time PCR, RNA purification, preparation of Illumina DNA sequencing libraries. Working independently, under general supervision or with instruction as needed, analyzes Sanger sequencing results, analyzes Illumina sequencing reads, analyzes quantitative real-time PCR data, performs DNA sequence motif analysis, protein sequence analysis and other computational sequence analyses, and prepares figures using R and other statistical analysis tools.