Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher - Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic BiologyThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.The Renewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center at NREL has an opening for a full time Postdoctoral Researcher within the Synthetic Biology and Bioconversion Group.The successful candidate will work in the Agile BioFoundry (ABF) project to conduct metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to integrate, evolve, and improve new pathways and new genes in engineered strains for productionMoreover, the successful candidate will work with bioprocess engineers for scale-up activities in bioreactor cultivations to improve strain performance inResearch experience in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology in non -model bacteriaA skilled researcher who applies, on a broad basis, existing theories, principles, and concepts, and is fully competent in all conventional applications of knowledge common to metabolic engineering and synthetic biologyExperience in bioreactor cultivation