Overview
To take delegated duties from NCTC senior staff, following agreed protocols and policies in accordance with the UKHSA policies and procedures, seeking advice where appropriate from senior staff. The post holder will:
Responsibilities
* Enable and implement all NCTC laboratory operations including: the cultivation, manufacturing and freeze-drying banking of all NCTC strains; the testing and qualification of manufactured batches; the maintenance of manufacturing and test records; the reception and banking of incoming, new strains.
* Support other NCTC operations as required from time to time including: DNA extraction, materials acquisition; product packaging and shipping and general product support.
* Partake in developmental work involving NCTC strains to enable the successful completion of a large-scale sequencing project.
The National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) is one of four Culture Collections operated by the UK Health Security Agency. As the longest-running bacterial collection in the world, NCTC has over 6,000 type and reference strains meticulously archived and maintained. This role will work with the collection and involve bacterial cultivation, inactivation and Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction from 3,000 strains in the NCTC bacterial collection to allow for whole-genome sequencing.
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