Fermentation Associate
We are seeking a Fermentation Associate to provide support to our Fermentation team. This position requires a B.S. degree in Microbiology, Biochemistry, or related field and experience in a microbiology laboratory. The candidate will be responsible for operating and maintaining fermentors and related equipment, and preparing and sterilizing fermentation media, buffers and solutions.
Qualifications:
- Requires a B.S. degree in Microbiology, Biochemistry or related field
- Experience operating laboratory equipment: balance, pH meter, magnetic stirrer, volumetric glassware, pipettes, autoclave
- Experience operating fermentation equipment desirable
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
Essential Responsibilities:
- Operates laboratory-scale fermentation equipment
- Prepares fermentation media and related buffers and solutions
- Supports compilation of fermentation data
- Maintains fermentation equipment and a safe and orderly laboratory to ensure compliance with all safely policies and practices
For HR inquiries please email: careers@verdezyne.com
Bioinformatics Scientist
We are seeking a Bioinformatics Scientist to support our microbial metabolic pathway engineering programs.
Qualifications: Candidates must have at least a Ph.D. in Computational Biology or related field and a minimum of 2 years postdoctoral experience with genome annotation, protein engineering and/or metabolic pathway modeling. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills will be essential to work effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary research team.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Maintain and advance comprehensive bioinformatics platform to support our metabolic engineering programs, including synthetic gene design and protein engineering algorithms, metabolic pathway models, statistical analyses and process modeling software
- Annotate the genome sequences of proprietary microorganisms
- Construct genome-scale metabolic models from annotated genome sequence information
- Maintain and advance current metabolic models to evaluate metabolic networks, identify gaps, predict targets for pathway optimization and simulate the effect of genetic modifications
- Work with IT department to establish and maintain a LIMS linking company-wide molecular biology, fermentation and analytical chemistry databases
- Integrate publically-available genomic tools, with custom in-house bioinformatics platform
- Establish algorithms for automated high-throughput screening of recombinant microbes
For HR inquiries please email: careers@verdezyne.com
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