Doctoral student vs teaching & research assistant

Differences between doctoral student and teaching & research assistant 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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Teaching & research assistant example responsibilities.

• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Design and teach workshops on serial communication, basic python, and open computer vision library.
• Guide and monitor classroom lab activities involving SPSS software, research analysis, and data compilation.
• Assemble, correlate and analyze research outcomes using SPSS, and synthesize data and findings graphically using charts.
• Prepare and teach lab sections for undergraduate-level cartography and spatial statistics courses, and graduate-level raster GIS course.
• Design questionnaire for tobacco study, collect data by going on fields, enter data, create SAS databases.
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