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Molecular Biologist / Research Scientist

Proto-Town
Posted 11 days ago, valid for a month
Location

Lockhart, TX, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • We are seeking a molecular biologist/research scientist to join our team in building an automated biology platform.
  • The role involves running end-to-end workflows, designing selection strategies, and interpreting population trajectories in wet lab work.
  • Candidates must have hands-on experience in cell culture, molecular cloning fundamentals, and flow cytometry/FACS techniques.
  • The position offers a salary of $80,000 to $100,000 per year and requires at least 2-3 years of relevant experience.
  • We encourage applicants without yeast experience to apply, as we value selection judgment and long-run discipline.

The role

We are building an automated biology platform and, and we are looking for a molecular biologist / research scientist to handle the core wet lab work: selection design, library construction, and readouts.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Must-haves

  1. Cell culture: hands-on experience, ideally with yeast.

  2. Molecular cloning: fundamentals (PCR amplification, Gibson assembly, Golden Gate assembly, transformations); experience with sequencing services.

  3. Flow cytometry/FACS: gating strategies, staining, sample loading.

Nice-to-haves

Yeast genetics and surface display 路 OrthoRep or other continuous hypermutation systems 路 phage display or PACE 路 SPR/BLI 路 NGS library prep and analysis 路 protein expression and purification 路 Opentrons, Hamilton, Tecan, or eVOLVER-class hardware.

If you have never worked in yeast, apply anyway. We would rather hire for selection judgment and long-run discipline, and teach the organism.




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