Laboratory teaching assistant vs graduate student assistant

Differences between laboratory teaching assistant and graduate student assistant duties and responsibilities

Laboratory teaching assistant example responsibilities.

• Lead and instruct college level students in the fundamentals of astronomy through experiments design to teach basics to non-engineering majors.
• Manage and develop the instruction of anatomy and physiology labs.
• Lead discussion sections for students to understand concepts including introductory quantum theory and statistical thermodynamics as well as their applications.
• Operate laboratory equipment including IR spectrometers, NMR spectrometers and mass spectrometers.
• Plan lessons for laboratory, split grading responsibilities with other TA, assist students with weekly laboratory experiments.
• Head laboratory instructor for general physiology, comparative physiology, comparative morphology, anatomy and physiology, and herpetology.
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Graduate student assistant example responsibilities.

• Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
• Cloned genes by lambda phage library screening and RT-PCR.
• Used differential display RT-PCR to identify candidate mRNA's.
• Develop test suite to automatically test this system using python.
• Develop assays for kinetic analyses of DNA strand-displacement reactions on fix cells.
• Used OWASP ESAPI to validate input and to counter SQL and XSS injection.
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