Molecular Biologist / Research Scientist

Lockhart. Posted 3 months ago

The role

This person will handle core wet lab work including selection design, library construction, and readouts. They will run end to end workflows from library through selection to characterized hits.

What you will do

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

Required qualifications

Hands-on cell culture experience
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 have

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

About the company

proto-town is building an automated biology platform.