About the Role

Our work includes identifying new, biologically active natural products from microorganisms and optimizing producer strains through genetic and physiological strategies, combined with process development in our mid-scale fermentation plant.

As an intern in our dynamic and multidisciplinary microbial engineering team, you will embark on a 6-month journey to evaluate and implement cutting-edge technologies and processes for strain cultivation and genetic engineering, aimed at enhancing compound production.

Starting date: asap

Duration: 3-6 month 

Location: Campus Basel

Your responsibilities:  

• Perform standard and advanced cloning methods (Gibson assembly, recombination, CRISPR)
• Transform various microbial hosts
• Extract high-quality DNA for whole-genome sequencing
• Optimize cultivation conditions
• Evaluate data, generate reports, and contribute to the design and optimization of experiments

What you’ll bring to the role: 

• Recent Bachelor or Master graduate in a biology-relevant field (graduation no longer than one year ago)
• English, German/French is a plus
• Demonstrated expertise in microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry
• Experience and enthusiasm for developing and refining experimental methods
• Strong team player with a collaborative and proactive approach
• Experience in integrating wet lab data into databases to interpret results and plan future experiments (e.g. genome mining, cultivation optimization

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected], and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.