About the Job:
We are seeking an Intern to be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, and diverse team at MyFloraDNA. The candidate will learn about plant molecular biology and high throughput sequencing technologies. The candidate will participate in projects from initiation to delivery of molecular breeding tools and learn how to execute gene discovery projects in collaboration with other scientists and companies.

Learnings

The candidate will play an active role in helping to perform genotyping assays including gene discovery and genetic purity identification. The candidate will learn how to work with DNA sample purification, PCR, and qPCR, processing tissue samples for molecular analysis, and other sample and reagent preparation steps using various liquid handling instruments.

Toward this end, we ask every intern to develop a set of strategic learning objectives at the beginning of their internship with their manager, outlining their key learning and professional development needs. MyFloraDNA´s staff will work with you to ensure assignments are relevant to these learning objectives, to any practicum or school-related objectives, and that you continue to grow throughout your internship.

Please note this is an unpaid internship.

If you are a student and would like to earn course credit from your internship, we are willing to work with you to develop a rigorous workload that is relevant to your field of study and professional interests.

Education and Experience:
 

• Strong motivational, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Able to manage and shift focus between multiple projects
• Ability to drive change and influence team members

About MyFloraDNA Inc.

Bringing genomics to growers

Plant growers are hamstrung by three major problems: expense, risk and safety, and a lack of innovation. The scientific tools of modern agriculture developed in the last 40 years have increased the profit, safety, and rate of innovation for the crops consumed daily worldwide. These tools include tissue culturing, genetic assays, and marker-assisted breeding.

MyFloraDNA enables a grower to reduce crop loss due to pathogens, quickly sex a plant, and develop new strains of plants that have the most valuable commercial properties. We increase a grower's profit, reduce its risk, and give it new products. We have the right team of PhD bioscientists, MIT MBAs, DuPont plant experts, and seasoned biotechnology entrepreneurs. We have the right market, little professional competition, and the right product-market fit.

We are a vertically integrated biotech company with a strong IP portfolio and licensing strategy. We are excited to usher in a new era in modern plant breeding and growing.

If you are interested, please send your at hello@myfloradna.com, we will be pleased to know more about you.