Senior Synthetic Biologist - London, United Kingdom - ADLIB

ADLIB

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
London
Type
Permanent
Salary
Up to £60000
Great role for a Fungi expert working on biobased products.
Innovative wellfunded scaleup.
Share options as part of the package.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative award-winning London based Material Science company. They are leaders within their field and are entering an exciting phase of scale-up and commercialisation.

Due to natural growth of the business they are looking for a Senior Synthetic Biologist to join the innovation team.

What you will be doing?

As a Senior Synthetic Biologist you will play a key position within the Innovation team working on product development and research that will be focused on strain engineering strain development and evolution of fungi and bacterial strains.

You will be involved in managing a team of two biologists and really driving the synthetic biology function of the team out which will include being involved in IP work business strategy and budgeting.

What they are looking for?

They are looking for someone who has a background in synthetic biology/material science or biotechnology.
Someone who has extensive experience working on product development projects in a biotechnology industry setting.
Someone who has experience with synthetic biology design and using microbes (specifically yeast) to create either materials or biobased products.
Experience with strain engineering or creating natural products from microbes.
Experience managing/mentoring junior scientists.
Molecular biology experience is desired for example mutagenesis.

What you'll get in return for your experience?

You will be a key player in their success as well as share options and to become a leader within the business.

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