Job Summary: The Konopka laboratory focuses on the biology and metabolism of aging, with an emphasis on the musculoskeletal system. The Konopka Lab uses pharmacological and genetic strategies to evaluate fundamental mechanisms involved in aging and age-related disease. This Research Specialist will serve as the point person to lead experiments to evaluate mitochondrial energetics in ex vivo samples collected from animal and human studies. This position may also perform fundamental laboratory techniques such as western blotting and qPCR and will lead tissue processing to prepare samples for subsequent, multi-omic approaches (i.e., RNA sequencing, metabolomics, proteomics, etc.). Last, this position will assist with biosafety an