Graduate research student vs doctoral student

Differences between graduate research student and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Graduate research student example responsibilities.

• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Conduct molecular and cellular biology research techniques including DNA, RNA and protein isolation and analysis
• Assist in organic chemistry laboratory on synthesis of molecule that behaves as fluorescent switch with cation binding properties
• Perform Parkinson's psychological test on undergraduate students at UCLA and analyze data using statistical analysis software SPSS.
• Analyze data using SAS statistical software, and map populations using GIS.
• Summarize statistics from SAS outputs for USDA research grant investigating WIC and food insecurity.
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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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