Doctoral student vs senior research fellow

Differences between doctoral student and senior research fellow 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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Senior research fellow example responsibilities.

• Lead a project aim at improving DNA yields from various soil types in Dr. Connell's lab.
• Manage grant base research and submit the grant proposal to ICAR and get approved for fund research.
• Mentore a graduate student on the following topics: study design, literature reviews, drafting data plans and SAS.
• Contribute to the creation of new markup standards for scholarship in the humanities.
• Research unidentify payments and patients.
• Conduct long-term observations of grind water dynamics and chemistry.
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