Post-doctoral scientist vs doctoral student

Differences between post-doctoral scientist and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Post-doctoral scientist example responsibilities.

• Develop and manage third party claim investigations and contractor remedial oversight for various insurance companies.
• Research on DNA sensors and DNA enzymes.
• Investigate the contribution of DNA repair to prevention, causes, and cures of cancer.
• Lead HIV studies in human model according to FDA vaccine trial guidelines in collaboration with NIH.
• Provide computational support for an NIH program project that targets the gp120-CD4 interactions for small-molecule entry inhibitors.
• Analyze RNA-seq in rat primary neurons to identify genome-wide molecular targets of RNA-binding proteins.
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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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