Research technician lead vs biology laboratory assistant

Differences between research technician lead and biology laboratory assistant duties and responsibilities

Research technician lead example responsibilities.

• General laboratory duties; coordinate maintenance of equipment, maintain ingredient and prototype inventory, manage shipping and receiving.
• Train temporary staff and interns, create training materials, troubleshoot technical issues.
• Develop, in collaboration with others, efficient methods for the sequencing of DNA.
• Execute lab techniques, including protein complementation, PCR, ligations and high throughput robotics.
• Coordinate and present information regarding the progress of large scale DNA sequencing projects on a weekly basis.
• Perform in-store audits of package and display labeling for accuracy of EPA, FTC, and FDA consumer claims.
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Biology laboratory assistant example responsibilities.

• Comfort frighten patients and maintain an exceptionally bright professional demeanor to accomplish a procedure that makes most people very uncomfortable.
• Set up gel electrophoresis, clean slides, run experiments.
• Prepare culture media and ELISA samples following standard procedures.
• Prepare stock solutions, media for growing bacteria and yeast, electrophoresis gels and pouring agar plates.
• Aid students independently with laboratory work regarding basic principles of evolution, genetics, ecology, and molecular and cellular biology.
• Supervise and train fellow colleagues in GC, GC-MS, ATR-IR, FTIR, UV/Vis and DSC.
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