Job Description
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. \n\n Company:\nA 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.\n\nThe Role:\n 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. \n\n Responsibilities:\n\nDesign and execute scarred and scarless chromosomal integrations across diverse microbes (e.g.
E. coli, B. subtilis, P.
putida, S. cerevisiae, etc).\nPerform multi-round, multi-locus genome engineering without marker exhaustion\nActively use and help configure ELN and/or LIMS systems to track: strain lineages, construct versions...