Cell Culture Scientist

7 days ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Agenda Resource Management Full time

On behalf of our client, we are looking to recruit a Cell Culture Scientist or Associate Scientist/Technician to join an enthusiastic cell culture team, supporting research at a technical level.

There is flexibility in hours and days worked for this permanent role.


This role would suit a person with excellent mammalian cell culture experience along with strong and fluent communication skills to liaise with research scientists regarding their project requirements.


Basic Requirements:

  • Significant period of relevant industrial laboratory experience.
  • Demonstrable labbased experience, ideally in primary mammalian cell culture
  • Experience in regular use of aseptic technique would be beneficial
  • Familiarity with basic molecular biology techniques would be helpful
  • Great communication skills
  • Accustomed to working in a fastpaced environment, with prioritisation skills and adaptability
  • Good attention to detail, recording and maintaining accurate records
  • Proactive, enthusiastic and positive approach within a team
  • Expectation to cover some bank holidays, which will be compensated

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Employ careful aseptic technique and closely follow all tissue culture laboratory standard operating procedures (SOPs), keeping full and accurate details of procedures.
  • Maintain healthy cultures of stable heterologous and immortalised cell lines.
  • Provide cells for electrophysiological assays on automated and manual patch clamp platforms, communicating issues and observations to line manager.
  • Provide cells for platebased assays, seeding plates at required density, pretreating cells and preparing plate wells as required by individual cell line protocols.
  • Prepare frozen stocks of 'assayready' cells to facilitate screening on demand.
  • Scale up supplies of cell line vials stored in liquid nitrogen banks.
  • Prepare cell culture reagents to support the electrophysiology team.
  • Carry out housekeeping duties in cell culture facility.
  • Administration duties to include stock inventory, placing of orders in online procurement system, unpacking and booking in deliveries on arrival.
  • Organisation of service contracts for laboratory equipment.
Agenda only recruits people with integrity, who are honest and trustworthy and who have a great work ethic.

To enable us to hire the very best people, we will conduct a comprehensive background and pre-employment screening, which is an essential part ofAgenda's recruitment process.



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