Doctoral student vs postdoctoral research associate

Differences between doctoral student and postdoctoral research 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 research associate example responsibilities.

• Process and manage GIS databases to contribute towards research in human transportation behavior.
• Transfect 293-T cells with CRISPR constructs.
• Execute parallel synthesis on both solution and solid phase to develop library of compounds.
• Diagnose and resolve all instruments during breakdown (GC/MS/MS, GC/ECD, UV-Vis).
• Develop python codes to efficiently handle multiple read/unread, flag/unflag, and delete operations on emails.
• Characterize particles using DLS and UV-vis spectrophotometer to measure particle sizes and detect oxide layer, respectively.
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