Cell Culture Scientist - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Agenda Resource Management

Agenda Resource Management

Verified Company

Cambridge, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Part time

Description

On behalf of our client, we are looking to recruit a Cell Culture Scientist or Associate Scientist/Technician to join an enthusiastic cell culture team, supporting research at a technical level.

There is flexibility in hours and days worked for this permanent role.

This role would suit a person with excellent mammalian cell culture experience along with strong and fluent communication skills to liaise with research scientists regarding their project requirements.

Basic Requirements:

Significant period of relevant industrial laboratory experience.
Demonstrable labbased experience, ideally in primary mammalian cell culture
Experience in regular use of aseptic technique would be beneficial
Familiarity with basic molecular biology techniques would be helpful
Great communication skills
Accustomed to working in a fastpaced environment, with prioritisation skills and adaptability
Good attention to detail, recording and maintaining accurate records
Proactive, enthusiastic and positive approach within a team
Expectation to cover some bank holidays, which will be compensated

Duties and Responsibilities:

Employ careful aseptic technique and closely follow all tissue culture laboratory standard operating procedures (SOPs), keeping full and accurate details of procedures.
Maintain healthy cultures of stable heterologous and immortalised cell lines.
Provide cells for electrophysiological assays on automated and manual patch clamp platforms, communicating issues and observations to line manager.
Provide cells for platebased assays, seeding plates at required density, pretreating cells and preparing plate wells as required by individual cell line protocols.
Prepare frozen stocks of 'assayready' cells to facilitate screening on demand.
Scale up supplies of cell line vials stored in liquid nitrogen banks.
Prepare cell culture reagents to support the electrophysiology team.
Carry out housekeeping duties in cell culture facility.
Administration duties to include stock inventory, placing of orders in online procurement system, unpacking and booking in deliveries on arrival.
Organisation of service contracts for laboratory equipment.

Agenda only recruits people with integrity, who are honest and trustworthy and who have a great work ethic.

To enable us to hire the very best people, we will conduct a comprehensive background and pre-employment screening, which is an essential part ofAgenda's recruitment process.