Research Technician [OPEN CALL]

This is not a specific role but an open call. We will keep your CV on file and send invitations if a role we believe is suitable becomes available.

Where? Scale Space in White City, west London - just beside Westfield shopping center & Shepherd's Bush. 

When?

TBD - Open Call only.

Role & Responsibilities

To support other team members and work closely with them to carry out:

• Product R&D: using our proprietary discovery pipeline to finding how pathogens overcome the immune system of important crop plants, and discovering ways to use gene editing to improve the plant immune system

• Product testing (testing if the changes we make to key proteins in the immune system of crops will lead to resistance to disease)

• Organising lab stocks and managing consumables

• Growing and maintaining plants

• Working 35 hours a week, usually 5 days per week

Opportunities

• Exceptional training in molecular biology

• Learn a variety of cutting-edge molecular skills, organisation skills and gene expression technologies in plants

• Contribute to ground breaking discovery research which we will use to transform plant biotechnology 

• Make a real world impact on the life of farmers across the world

• Contribute to research papers (when possible)

• Join our team of leading academic discovery and industry scientists

• Networking via attending conferences

• Tailored personal growth opportunities

Qualifications/Experience

An undergraduate degree or Masters degree in Biology or similar

Skills

• Molecular biology techniques such as cloning (e.g. golden gate) and PCR (essential)

• Maintaining plants (non-essential)

• Agroinfiltration (non-essential)

NO EXPERIENCE OR KNOWLEDGE OF PLANT SCIENCE IS REQUIRED. A willingness to learn new things and work as a team member would be welcome. Having done a bit of personal research on plants would be beneficial at interview.

We want Resurrect Bio to be a great place to work for all kinds of people. We will carry out a hiring process with equal opportunities as the priority and have a focus on eliminating unconscious bias.

For the avoidance of any doubt, this role is an Open Call and will not be responded to individually. If a suitable role becomes available, we may reach out to invite you to apply for if we believe your profile meets the description.