We are looking for a skilled, hands-on microbiology lab technician to join our multi-disciplinary team in our mission to harness the potential of unculturable microbes.
Role
In this role, you will facilitate the expansion of our library of novel microbes and support our vision to discover solutions to global issues including the discovery of new antibiotics against resistant bacteria and fungicides to support global food security.
Team
Our microbial generation team oversees the generation, processing, and stocking of novel species of microbes.
Together we have used extensive data collection and a range of bioinformatics approaches to culture more than 2000 previously unexplored microbial species. We continue to grow our library by employing a variety of sequencing approaches including whole genome sequencing, amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics to strengthen our understanding of individual microbes and the soil microbiome. On top of this, we apply co-occurrence and reactome techniques to understand the relationships between individual species and are implementing machine learning to iteratively improve our experimentation to increase our microbial capture rates.
We are a diverse team, using a range of capabilities to continue to increase our cultivation rates for novel species through further technological development of the platform and automated pipelines. This allows for exploration of a greater chemical space (e.g. carbon sources, nitrogen sources) and biological space (e.g. helper strains, symbionts) to culture truly novel microbes.