Research computing specialist vs research assistant

Differences between research computing specialist and research assistant duties and responsibilities

Research computing specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage a departmental network, support PC's, and provide technology assistance and advice for instructors.
• Manage social media publications to spread awareness and notifications on Facebook.
• Study cloud computing architecture for summer research.
• Programme using Perl and Matlab.
• Learned use of Linux as a development environment.
• Implement a Perl pipeline which streamline the compression of these sets of genome files.
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Research assistant example responsibilities.

• Update twitter profile and manage social media campaign.
• Manage social media publications to spread awareness and notifications on Facebook.
• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Learned many laboratory techniques, assays, and protocols; western blot, real-time PCR, tick collection, DNA extraction.
• Analyze the effects of estrogen on various tissues using molecular biology techniques such as RT-PCR, RNA and DNA extractions.
• Gain familiarity with research terminology, development procedures, data collection and management, and IRB considerations.
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