Postdoc in precision fermentation for sustainable food production - DTU Food

Do you want to make a difference by developing “cow-free” milk ingredients? If you excel within heterologous expression in bacterial systems and you are looking for the best place to unfold your skills, we have just the right job for you. Within the next 25 years the world’s population will need up to twice the amount of protein compared to today.

Topped by the climate crisis, we need to find new solutions for producing food, and that’s where you enter the scene. Together with a team of international top scientists you will contribute to developing the genuine milk proteins produced without the cow and carrying the right decorations. Same functionality and nutritional value but in a more sustainable manner.

You can also look forward to work in state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for experimental research within molecular biology, strain engineering, high throughput screening and fermentation at different scales.

Responsibilities and qualifications Focus is on genetically engineered bacteria to produce milk protein, and your overall focus will be research in the field of cellular agriculture/precision fermentation and within this framework you will focus on genetically engineered bacterial cell factories to produce milk proteins with the right post translational modifications1 …