Scientific Officer – Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility, EMBL Heidelberg
The EMBL Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility provides support regarding all types of experiments related to advanced protein expression, purification and biophysical characterization. The facility offers a service for high-quality protein production in E. coli, insect and mammalian cells, whilst also maintaining a state-of-the-art biophysics platform for protein characterization and interaction studies.
Your role
In this role, your main responsibility will be to perform recombinant protein expression and purification experiments in insect and mammalian cells. You will be expected to discuss the project needs with individual users and then develop a suitable strategy for the construct design, expression and purification of the requested recombinant proteins. Quality control of the purified proteins will be done in close collaboration with the facility’s biophysics platform. Furthermore, the new scientific officer will also take part in the development and optimization of novel methods and protocols with the aim of developing robust and efficient pipelines adapted to the requirements of our users.
Contract duration: 3 years
Please note that appointments on fixed term contracts can be renewed for up to 9 years in total, depending on circumstances at the time of the review.
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Closing date: 14 February 2022