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Proto-Town

Molecular Biologist / Research Scientist

Lockhart, Texas, United States

Location
Lockhart, Texas, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Science & research
Pay
Not stated
Posted
3 months ago

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About the role

The role

We are building an automated biology platform and, and we are looking for a molecular biologist / research scientist to handle the core wet lab work: selection design, library construction, and readouts.

Responsibilities

  • Run end to end workflows, library through selection to characterized hits
  • Design selection strategy: stringency schedules, bottlenecks, counter-selections
  • Design FACS sorting and screening strategies, and interpret population trajectories across rounds

Must-haves

  1. Cell culture: hands-on experience, ideally with yeast.
  2. Molecular cloning: fundamentals (PCR amplification, Gibson assembly, Golden Gate assembly, transformations); experience with sequencing services.
  3. Flow cytometry/FACS: gating strategies, staining, sample loading.

Nice-to-haves

Yeast genetics and surface display · OrthoRep or other continuous hypermutation systems · phage display or PACE · SPR/BLI · NGS library prep and analysis · protein expression and purification · Opentrons, Hamilton, Tecan, or eVOLVER-class hardware.

If you have never worked in yeast, apply anyway. We would rather hire for selection judgment and long-run discipline, and teach the organism.

Source

Posted by Proto-Town on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:01 UTC; the original is the reference.

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