research assistant South Kensington, England

Imperial College London

Full Time South Kensington, England 43888 - 40694 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

The post is funded through Biofoundry core funding to develop cutting-edge automated molecular biology workflows. The research assistant will join the Biofoundry team to work closely with the Head of Automation on workflow development to support high-throughput approaches for the assembly of DNA, transformation and characterisation of production strains and NGS library preparations. The workflows will involve high-throughput cloning, assay development, automated liquid handlers, a range of analytical methods including HPLC and LC-MS and next generation sequencing instruments.

Duties and responsibilities

Development and execution of high-throughput strain engineering pipelines

Assay development for enzyme characterisation

To ensure the validity and reliability of data at all times

To maintain accurate and complete records of all findings

To assist with the publication of findings

Essential requirements

Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in Synthetic Biology or Engineering (or equivalent)

Experience with automated liquid handlers: Echo and Biomek instruments

Experience in a research laboratory environment

Experience with protein expression and characterisation

Experience with NGS library preparations

Further information

This is a Full Time and fixed term (12 months) role, based at the South Kensington Campus.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Marko Storch - [email protected]

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