University of Toronto | Postdoc: Synthetic + Molecular Biology on Microplastics | ONSITE Toronto, ON

We’re engineering enzymes to degrade microplastics using AI + high-throughput molecular biology. Join the Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms (https://RNAlab.ca | PI: Artem Babaian) on one of the largest projects in bioinformatics today. Building on Serratus (10× RNA virus discovery, Nature 2022), we’re now developing Logan to mine planetary-scale genomics datasets to evolve and test novel plastic-degrading enzymes.

Looking for: * PhD in Molecular/Synthetic Biology, Biochemistry, or Genetics

* Strong skills in yeast/bacterial systems, enzyme assays, or metabolic engineering

* Interest in automation, robotics, and collaboration with AI and Computational Biology scientists

Full-time postdoc in Toronto, Canada. Start date: flexible/immediate.

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----- Relevant Links:

* Serratus paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04332-2)

* Logan preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.30.605881v2)

* Entering The Platinum Age of Computational Discovery. Vision. (10m; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUM-adhXd8&t=5875s)

Let’s build the biology together to clean Our Planet.