Doctoral student vs postdoctoral associate

Differences between doctoral student and postdoctoral associate duties and responsibilities

Doctoral student example responsibilities.

• Manage multiple collaborative projects peripheral to dissertation that leverage experience in characterization and inorganic synthesis.
• Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
• Used RT-PCR, ELISA, western blot, culture of establish cell lines, and immunohistochemistry.
• Apply NMR techniques to assess the effect of a health supplement on neurological changes in Alzheimer s disease.
• Analyze the molecular structures by NMR and FR-IR, determine the molecular weight and polymerization kinetics by GPC.
• Develop complex ELISA and western blot methods to study and characterize the host immune response to intracellular parasitism.
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Postdoctoral associate example responsibilities.

• Develop and manage third party claim investigations and contractor remedial oversight for various insurance companies.
• Co-Authore NIH grant proposal on membrane protein folding.
• Participate in writing research grant applications including NIH and NSF.
• X-ray protein crystallographic studies on the structures of antibodies and DNA.
• Purify DNA from subject blood samples and organize the genome screen.
• Complete mice handling training and currently using CRISPR technology to knockout genes in cell lines.
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