Research Technician: Directed Evolution

Seeking a research technician to:

• Assist with our directed evolution project with the purpose of improving the efficiency and safety of gene insertion tools.
• Assist with conducting a wide variety of molecular biology techniques, some of which include: Phage assisted continuous evolution (PACE); complex plasmid design and construction; lentivirus preparation and transduction; work with bacteriophage; Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS); and tissue culture including embryonic stem cell culture, southern and western blotting, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments and optimization, T7 assays, and novel assays designed to test deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding and targeted insertion of piggyBac and other integrating proteins.