Kingdom is at an inflection point. Demand for our Superculture® pet ingredients is accelerating, and we are preparing to commercialize our first human ingredient. Every one of those ingredients starts in the same place: our biobank. Growing and maintaining that collection of microbes, and generating the sequencing data that tells us what we have, is foundational to everything we build.

The Research Associate II, Microbiology is at the center of that work. You will join our lab team to own day-to-day biobanking and sequencing operations, from processing new sources and isolating novel strains, to keeping our existing collection healthy, to running PCR, library prep, and sequencing.

If you’re an early-career scientist looking to deepen your experience in microbiology and molecular biology, take ownership of a range of workstreams, and grow with a fast-moving biotech, we want to hear from you.

If you join, you will:

Grow and maintain Kingdom’s biobank by obtaining, processing, and organizing sources, isolating new strains, regenerating older strains, and making and cataloging strain stocks

Culture and isolate microbes using rigorous aseptic technique, working with BSL-1 and BSL-2 strains and with anaerobes in our anaerobic chambers

Obtain pure isolates and prepare screening plates to support new projects

Run PCR and gel purification for Sanger sequencing needs

Own DNA extraction and library preparation for 16S/ITS and whole genome sequencing

Run qPCR assays and process the resulting data

Use liquid handlers to scale high-throughput methods, and troubleshoot and improve protocols along the way

Execute on in vitro cell-based models

Research Associate II, Microbiology

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