Associate Scientist
Location: Lexington, MA
Pay Rate: $40-$58 per hour DOE
Research and product development in Nutrition, Health and Bioscience organization located in Lexington, MA is in need of an Associate Scientist to join the team.
The Associate Scientist will aid in running microbiome fermentation experiments and be responsible for downstream sample processing.
This person will spend the majority of their time (about 80%) in the lab executing experiments.
You will help execute microbiology-related fermentation experiments using different in vitro and ex vivo tools/systems to demonstrate health benefits in terms of microbiome modulation, microbial metabolite production, and host microbiome interaction for various projects
Requirements:
- Bachelors with relevant experience
- Experience in microbial isolation, microbial culture maintenance, and nucleic acid extraction
- Bench scale lab fermentation or microbial process development experience is a plus
- Experience with growing anaerobic microbes / working in anaerobic chamber is a plus
- Experience maintaining electronic lab notebook and reporting data/results to the team
- Background in sample preparation for next generation DNA sequencing and interactions with sequencing providers
- Hands-on DNA sequencing experience preferred (Nanopore and/or Illumina)
- Excellent communication skills and are fluent in English, both spoken and written
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $40.00 - $58.00 per hour
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Work Location: In person