PhD Scholarships in synthetic biology tools for cell factory development, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark (2015)

The section for Synthetic Biology Tools for Yeast (SBTY) at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) is expanding, and currently looking for talented and motivated PhD students to join our expert group working on synthetic biology tools.

In SBTY you will be part of a young international team headed by Prof. Jay D. Keasling, developing novel technology for the yeast engineering and synthetic biology community, emphasizing on basic research, with a strong drive towards application and improvement of the translational efforts at DTU Biosustain.

Your key responsibilities will be to develop and validate synthetic biology tools in order to support the DTU Biosustain mission to speed strain i) design, ii) building and iii) screening processes of new cell factories for chemical production. This includes advanced DNA assembly and genome engineering methods and development of genetic circuits and biosensors for high-throughput screening of chemical production or regulatory control of metabolic pathways of interest to DTU Biosustain. The position in SBTY will include an exchange research stay at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI.org) in Emeryville, California (US).

Further details:
http://www.nature.com