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Traineeship (Praktikum) at FGen AG / Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Introduction
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
Team Introduction
The Encapsulation & Screening Foundry collaborates with other Ginkgo teams to deliver biological solutions to our partners active in industrial biotech, life sciences, agriculture, and pharma. We contribute to the success of these programs with our proprietary screening platform that enables the analysis of millions of cells and microbes to isolate candidates with specific properties. The Foundry is located at the Tech Park in Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords: Synthetic biology, biotechnology, microbiology, bioprocess engineering, molecular biology, metabolic engineering, industrial biotechnology, high throughput screening, assay development
**Who we are**
FGen is a biotechnology spin-off company of the ETH Zurich active in the field of synthetic biology. We collaborate with biotech and pharmaceutical companies for the discovery and optimization of biocatalysts ranging from single proteins to pathways and whole cells, thereby making use of our proprietary screening technology. FGen is located at Technologie Park Basel and offers positions for bachelor/master studies and internships. For more information about the company please visit our homepage www.fgen.ch.
**Who you are**
You are an open-minded team player that wants to do a bachelor/master thesis or internship at an exciting biotech start-up company. You perform your studies in the field of biological sciences and you know fundamental molecular biology and microbiological techniques or you are familiar with bioprocess engineering.
**What you give**
You are willing to spend at least 6 months in the charming city of Basel and you are eager to share and discuss innovative ideas. You will be responsible for a small project, which we will be selected according to your background and which will be described in detail after your application has been accepted.
**What you get back**
You will get hands-on expertise in modern biotechnological techniques and get insight into the work in an industrial biotech context. You will also experience the busy life in a young start-up company and learn how to successfully conclude a scientific project.
**Who we are** FGen is a biotechnology spin-off company of the ETH Zurich active in the field of synthetic biology. We collaborate with biotech and pharmaceutical companies for the discovery and optimization of biocatalysts ranging from single proteins to pathways and whole cells, thereby making use of our proprietary screening technology. FGen is located at Technologie Park Basel and offers positions for bachelor/master studies and internships. For more information about the company please visit our homepage www.fgen.ch.
**Who you are** You are an open-minded team player that wants to do a bachelor/master thesis or internship at an exciting biotech start-up company. You perform your studies in the field of biological sciences and you know fundamental molecular biology and microbiological techniques or you are familiar with bioprocess engineering.
**What you give** You are willing to spend at least 6 months in the charming city of Basel and you are eager to share and discuss innovative ideas. You will be responsible for a small project, which we will be selected according to your background and which will be described in detail after your application has been accepted.
**What you get back** You will get hands-on expertise in modern biotechnological techniques and get insight into the work in an industrial biotech context. You will also experience the busy life in a young start-up company and learn how to successfully conclude a scientific project.
Performing an individual project in the exciting environment of a young biotech start-up company.
Performing an individual project in the exciting environment of a young biotech start-up company.
Andreas Meyer / Phone: +41-61-6332920 / Email: meyer@fgen.ch
Andreas Meyer / Phone: +41-61-6332920 / Email: meyer@fgen.ch