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You're collaborative, easy-going, proactive in how you communicate, and flexible about scheduling when the culture rotation calls for it.\nWhat you'll do in this role:\nTransfer in, implement, and document an established G-banding and karyotyping workflow in-house for HSC program cell products.\n\nExecute the full cytogenetics workflow (initially in research/PD and then in our GMP suite): metaphase arrest, cell harvest, hypotonic treatment, slide preparation, fixation, Giemsa staining, metaphase imaging, and software-assisted karyotype analysis.\n\nCompare initial in-house results against historical data and document appropriate operating and quality-control criteria.\n\nAnalyze metaphase spreads to identify numerical and structural chromosomal abnormalities, and document findings clearly.\n\nSupport genomic-stability assessment of human primary cells\n\nCulture, passage, expand, bank, and prepare iPSC samples in preparation for karyotyping\n\nTrack clone-level genomic stability, 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