Lab researcher/assistant The Pardee Lab seeks to fill positions for the upcoming Work Study Program. Our lab is focused on merging cell-free synthetic biology with engineered hardware/software to create devices for programmable diagnostics, portable therapeutics manufacturing and research. The overall goal of this work is to de-centralize molecular technologies that are usually limited to hospitals and labs for applications in global health, food security and pandemic response. This fall, we are looking for students with practical research experience in molecular biology and interest/skills in Education. Over the past year we have developed tools to teach school age kids the principles of molecular biology (e.g. nucleotide base pairing, enzyme/substrate, codons, mutations, etc). This academic year we are moving the work toward practical application and developing an evaluation framework to measure how to quantify/improve the educational impact. If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you through the application process. Students from the University of Toronto can apply through the work study program at: https://clnx.utoronto.ca