Plant in vitro culture and transformation technician
People & HR
About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Plant in vitro culture and transformation technician to join our “Plants & Transformation” team and help us get our most ambitious R&D project to the next level: Transforming and regenerating our enhanced plants.
The ideal candidate will need to have good scientific rigor and be comfortable with managing many parallel tasks. He / she will also need to be meticulous and have very high attention to detail, as from day 1 he / she will work on a crucial workstream to achieve results within demanding timelines.
Working at Neoplants, is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge research and impactful projects that can literally change the world alongside a collaborative and interdisciplinary highly engaged team.
Main mission (but not limited to):
Perform in vitro culture of various plants, model and ornamental
Perform general laboratory tasks: Media and reagent preparation
Transform ornamental monocot and dicot plants
Regenerate fully transgenic plants from transformed calluses
Report advancements and challenges to the team
Required:
Bachelor, or equivalent, DUT - in biology with 2+ years of experience
Experience in plant tissue or cell in vitro culture and regeneration
Extreme scientific rigor and attention to details
Ability to work autonomously with little or no supervision
Good interpersonal and communication skills
English skills (read, spoken, written)
Shared values : Team spirit, positive impact, excellence, humility
Nice to have:
Experience in plant transformation
Experience with non-model plant species
Experience in basic molecular biology techniques
Why join us?
🌿 Gain a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge plant biotechnology projects with real-world impact and contribute to global innovation by collaborating with world-class experts in their field
🌿 Grow through permanent learnings in a a very collaborative environment with training opportunities and learn from the founder through regular updates on everything that happens in an innovative start-up
🌿 Participate in fostering team moments, such as our annual kick-off, offsite seminar, after-work, celebrations every month, team activities (e.g. escape games, climbing, sailing or even surfing)
🌿 Come work in our brand new Neolab, ‘The Seed’: A unique 1,200m2 space on two floors featuring a state-of-the-art wetlab, full-scale performance testing rooms among other high-end equipment, as well as open offices and great team spaces!
Location: greater Paris area
Starting date: ASAP
