Tissue Culture Technician

Job description

The Date Palm Tissue Culture Technician is responsible for initiating, maintaining, multiplying, and acclimatizing date palm plantlets using in vitro tissue culture techniques. Supports large‑scale micropropagation, ensures culture quality, and maintains sterile laboratory operations in line with standard protocols. Initiates and maintains date palm explants (shoot meristems, somatic embryos) under aseptic conditions; prepares and sterilizes culture media, reagents, and consumables; performs subculturing, multiplication, shooting and rooting of in vitro cultures; monitors cultures for contamination, physiological disorders, and growth performance; conducts somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis protocols; assists with acclimatization and hardening of plantlets in the greenhouse; maintains detailed records of cultures, protocols, and production output; follows laboratory safety, hygiene, and quality control procedures; supports protocol optimization and scaling‑up activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, Plant Pathology, Agronomy, Horticulture, Biological Sciences, or related field
• Associate degree/Diploma with relevant hands‑on lab experience considered
• hands‑on experience in plant tissue culture, preferably with date palm
• strong knowledge of aseptic techniques and culture media preparation
• proficiency in plant tissue transformation

Skills