CK Group are recruiting for a highly motivated and experienced Principal Synthetic Biologist to join a growing biotechnological company in Newcastle on a three month fixed term contract with scope to be made permanent. A great opportunity to work in a cutting-edge field with a company at the forefront of biotechnological research and be part of a visionary team developing solutions for tomorrow’s challenges. Company: A newly formed biotechnology organisation with state-of-the-art microbial engineering facilities, focused on building a biological and digital platform for biological assets supply chain management. The Role: To design, execute, validate, and iterate complex chromosomal engineering programs in microbes. This will be a hand-on role where as Principal Biologist you will be capable of taking a biological objective from concept through engineered strains, sequencing-based validation, and interpretation under stress or evolutionary conditions. Responsibilities: Design and execute scarred and scarless chromosomal integrations across diverse microbes (e.g. E. coli, B. subtilis, P. putida, S. cerevisiae, etc). Perform multi-round, multi-locus genome engineering without marker exhaustion Actively use and help configure ELN and/or LIMS systems to track: strain lineages, construct versions, sequencing data Scientifically direct outsourced bioreactor work end-to-end (design, oversight, QC acceptance, and i...