Vacancy: Research Technician at Phytoform Labs

The Company

At Phytoform Labs Ltd we believe in sustainable agriculture and nutrition for all. We see a lack of innovation in the agricultural space around the crops themselves, so we are building a multidisciplinary team to help rectify the situation. We have exciting growth plans over the next year and we are looking for a dedicated research technician to support our wet lab team. We are based at the world leading plant science institute Rothamsted Research just outside of London, United Kingdom.

The Role

If you are looking for a new challenge and like working with a multidisciplinary team then this job is for you. You will be responsible for maintenance of non-sterile and sterile plant material, DNA preparations (mini & midipreps) and media & consumable preparation for the wet lab. If you have previously been part of an academic or industry team, but now would like to work in a fast-paced start-up environment then you would be a great fit.

You will:

• Track and maintain sterile growth and tissue culture of Arabidopsis, Potato & Tomato plants

• Track and maintain soil grown plants (collaborating with Rothamsted Research Greenhouse team)

• Prepare DNA for downstream applications (transformations, DNA minipreps & midipreps)

• Prepare custom media for plant tissue culture and general molecular biology

• Maintain wet lab consumable stocks

Requirements

• BSc Biology or a related subject

• Strong record of laboratory experience (3+ years)

• Plant tissue culture skill set

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Vacancy: Plant Genome Engineer at Phytoform Labs

The Company

At Phytoform Labs Ltd we believe in sustainable agriculture and nutrition for all. We see a lack of innovation in the agricultural space around the crops themselves, so we are building a multidisciplinary team to help rectify the situation. We have exciting growth plans over the next year and we are looking for a talented plant scientist to support our R&D pipeline and genome engineering projects. We are based at the world leading plant science institute Rothamsted Research just outside of London, United Kingdom.

The Role

If you are looking for a new challenge and like working with a multidisciplinary team then this job is for you. We are looking for a motivated core team member to work on Phytoform Labs crop development pipeline. You will quantify and analyse multiple aspects of crop genetics as well as breed new crops with footprint-free genome editing. If you have previously been part of an academic or industry team, but now would like to work in a fast-paced start-up environment and develop a project from the ground up then you would be a great fit.

You will:

• Design and validate in vitro and in vivo CRISPR-experiments

• Develop new crop varieties with CRISPR based footprint-free genome editing

• Work with plant tissue culture including protoplast regeneration

• Validate new traits in crops

Requirements

• PhD level plant molecular biology skills, with main focus on plant CRISPR-genome editing

• Ability to develop new plant tissue culture protocols

• Have worked with ‘non-model’ crop species

• Able to work both independently and part of a team

• Able to communicate ideas clearly to a multidisciplinary team

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