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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Main duties:
• Develop and deliver instructional solutions for Illumina’s leading-edge products dealing with complete end-to-end workflow steps (from nucleic acid sample preparation through data analysis)
• Facilitate training courses for internal and external customers that typically include technical presentations, demonstrations, hands-on lab exercises, technical Q&A sessions, and student assessments
• Continuously update course materials to keep pace with rapidly evolving technology and products
• Provide content expertise
• Author, review, and edit technical documents and presentations

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Core Consumables Development TeamMain duties:
• Optimize assay conditions to achieve new levels of commercial stability, robustness and performance
• Design functional assays that are predictive of sequencing performance and leverage them in formulation development
• Further understanding of sequencing biochemistries using biophysical and analytical methods
• Design and execute experiments, analyze and present data demonstrating the feasibility of new methodologies
• Conduct clear and concise communication cross-functionally with colleagues and supervisors through oral updates, written reports and technical meetings

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Projects:- Algal oils by design: synthetic biology tools for Phaeodactylum tricornutum- Using synthetic biology and metabolic engineering in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to produce systems for biosynthesis of high value.
• Maintaining laboratory algal lines and bacterial stocks
• Preparing reagents and media
• Monitoring laboratory stocks
• Conducting the DNA and RNA isolation
• Genotyping and phenotyping of diverse algal lines, including transgenic lines

London, United Kingdom

• Project: RNA-Seq of pseudovirus constructs Main duties:
• RNA extraction and handling of sensitive RNA biomaterials
• Preparing viral RNA and cDNA for next generation sequencing
• Preparing libraries for the Ion Torrent PGM sequencing platform
• Collating results, carrying out data analysis and presenting findings to the group

Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian District, Poland

• Project: Introducing molecular biology tools in pepper (Capsicum spp.) breedingMain duties:
• PCR-based genetic markers (RAPD, ISSR, microsatellites), androgenesis, heterosis breeding of pepper and improvement of the methods for hybrid seed production,
• Teaching work – practical classes with students (Genetic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Basic Genetics)

Leicester, United Kingdom

• Project: Molecular techniques for the authentication of herbal medicinesMain duties:
• Identification of medicinal plants with use of Real Time PCR and High Resolution Melting
• Designing primers for Real Time PCR
• Analysis of a sequencing results
• Presenting findings to the group

Śmiłowo

• Main duties:
• Food microbiology testing
• Record-keeping for orders taken
• Validation of correct lab equipment functioning