The Bioprocessing and Bioproduct Engineering Laboratory (BBEL) in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University has develop a synthetic biology platform with yarrowia lipolytica as the primary host and explored various application.  BBEL has an immediate opening for a Post-doctoral Research Associate in using this platform for the production of bioplastics.  The specific responsibility of the position is to improve this cell fatory through the Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle.