Student assistant in the field of DNA nanotechnology

at  Cell Therapy and Immunology

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (www.fraunhofer.com) currently operates 76 institutes and research institutions throughout Germany and is the world’s leading applied research organization. Around 30 800 employees work with an annual research budget of 3.0 billion euros.
Its Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI researches and develops special problem solutions at the interfaces of medicine, life sciences and engineering.
For our research group »DNA Nanosystems« we are looking for a student assistant at the Leipzig site to join our team as soon as possible. The group deals with the generation of DNA nanostructures and their functionalization with various (bio)molecules for later application in diagnostic and immunological questions.

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Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this position:
Dr. David Smith
david.smith@izi.fraunhofer.de
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI
Requisition Number: 74582 Application Deadline:

You will support our interdisciplinary and international team in three different research projects. Your tasks will include the following:

• You will dissociate malignant and healthy tissue into single cells.
• You will analyze cells using flow cytometry and deformation cytometry.
• As part of cell culture and cell co-culture work, you will be responsible for passaging, cryopreservation and cell counting.
• You will plan, carry out and evaluate molecular biology work such as the determination of DNA concentrations or polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE).