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Molecular Biologist / Research Scientist
Lockhart, Texas, United States
Source: Proto-Town careers · View original posting
Employer job description
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The role
We are building an automated biology platform and, and we are looking for a molecular biologist / research scientist to handle the core wet lab work: selection design, library construction, and readouts.
Responsibilities
- Run end to end workflows, library through selection to characterized hits
- Design selection strategy: stringency schedules, bottlenecks, counter-selections
- Design FACS sorting and screening strategies, and interpret population trajectories across rounds
- Must-haves
- Cell culture: hands-on experience, ideally with yeast.
- Molecular cloning: fundamentals (PCR amplification, Gibson assembly, Golden Gate assembly, transformations); experience with sequencing services.
- Flow cytometry/FACS: gating strategies, staining, sample loading.
- Nice-to-haves
- Yeast genetics and surface display · OrthoRep or other continuous hypermutation systems · phage display or PACE · SPR/BLI · NGS library prep and analysis · protein expression and purification · Opentrons, Hamilton, Tecan, or eVOLVER-class hardware.
- If you have never worked in yeast, apply anyway. We would rather hire for selection judgment and long-run discipline, and teach the organism.
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