Graduate research assistant vs doctoral student

Differences between graduate research assistant and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Graduate research assistant example responsibilities.

• Organize TA office hours, manage online gradebook, proctore exams.
• Create and lead exercises to teach linear algebra, calculus and statistics.
• Grade homework, quizzes and manage grades on online gradebook effectively as a lead TA.
• Foster cross laboratory collaboration between physics labs and between engineering, biology, and chemistry departments to accomplish share goals.
• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Develop an RT-PCR SSCP analysis strategy for normal & tumor tissue RNA analysis.
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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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