Job area Research & Development Activity Corporate Location Marcq-en-Barœul, France Contract type Internship - Stage

Job description

Objective:

Spore formers are an important class of microorganisms that have a wide range of applications in the food and biotech industries. The intern will contribute to a deeper understanding of spore-forming bacteria and their antibiotic resistance mechanisms, by developing methods for the characterization of spore-forming bacteria compatible with high throughput screening and assessing identifying genes responsible for antibiotic resistance using genomic data and molecular biology tools.

Approach:

The intern will be in charge of:

In-depth literature review on spore former functionalities to identify ideal targets for high-throughput characterization testing.

Development of new characterization methods compatible with HTS

Genome analysis of spore-forming bacteria to id...