Scientist, Cell Engineering

An affiliate of Colossal is hiring a Scientist that will derive non-model organism primary cell lines, conduct assays corresponding to cell health, characterize lines, perform transfections, and deliver edited lines for downstream SCNT. The candidate will be part of a core team responsible for optimizing and characterizing for lines derived in house and supporting other parts of the cell core team in gene editing workflows. This position reports to the Manager of Primary Cell and Production sub-team within the Cell Engineering and Production (CEP) core team. 

This position is based out of Dallas, TX. Relocation assistance is available.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Isolate, expand, and maintain high-quality primary cell cultures from diverse non-model animal tissues.
• Innovate then execute experiments to generate and characterize primary cells from non-model mammalian organisms, develop functional assays, assess and interpret experimental workflows
• Work with team members to assess efficiency of workflows through cellular assays and NGS sequencing approaches
• Work closely with genome engineers to screen, validate, and make cell lines that will undergo SCNT
• Work on project milestones
• Attend lab meetings, prepare reports and presentations on the progress of project