Job Description

The role

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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.

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Responsibilities

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- Run end to end workflows, library through selection to characterized hits
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- Design selection strategy: stringency schedules, bottlenecks, counter-selections
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- Design FACS sorting and screening strategies, and interpret population trajectories across rounds
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Must-haves

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- Cell culture: hands-on experience, ideally with yeast.
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- Molecular cloning: fundamentals (PCR amplification, Gibson assembly, Golden Gate assembly, transformations); experience with sequencing services.
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- Flow cytometry/FACS: gating strategies, staining, sample loading.
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Nice-to-haves

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- Yeast genetics and surface display
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- OrthoRep or other continuous hypermutation systems
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- phage display or PACE
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- SPR/BLI
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- NGS library prep and analysis
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- protein expression and purification
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- Opentrons, Hamilton, Tecan, or eVOLVER-class hardware.
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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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📌 Molecular Biologist / Research Scientist (Lockhart)
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