General Manager - Forests to Biobased Products @ Scion | Biotechnology, Biomanufacturing, Bioenergy
Scion Summer Student opportunity - Biochemical Analysis of Somatic Embryos Scion hosts a number of summer students, each with differing specialities, from tertiary institutes across New Zealand at both our Rotorua and Christchurch Campus. The programme involves a student completing a 12-week, full-time, research project under the direction of Scion supervisors (allowing time for holidays over the Christmas and New Year). Students are able to gain hands on, paid, work experience in the field of which they are studying, where they get to work shoulder to shoulder with Scion's internationally recognised staff. The primary objective of the work/project: To carry out biochemical analysis of maturing somatic embryos using a variety of techniques to build a set of reference values for the progression of biochemical components related to somatic embryo quality in radiata pine. Research Abstract: The 21st Century Tissue Culture Partnership is a project aimed at fully automating the production of radiata pine varietals via somatic embryogenesis (SE), with the aim of reducing the overall cost of the current Petri dish-based protocols. A research area within this partnership focusses on improving the survival and quality of mature somatic embryos when going from an in vitro environment to a nursery/field environment. #forest #forestry #bioeconomy #circularbioeconomy #student #internship #enzymatic https://lnkd.in/g3GGuGa9
