Senior laboratory assistant vs laboratory specialist

Differences between senior laboratory assistant and laboratory specialist duties and responsibilities

Senior laboratory assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage, train and teach small groups of organic chemistry students with informal, fun learning environment.
• Manage daily laboratory operations including personnel, client consulting, analyses and adherence to GLP protocols.
• Perform daily maintenance and QC on hematology and chemistry analyzers.
• Help in entering results in the LIS.
• Conduct PCR to amplify genes for sequencing.
• Design layout for new type of GMP laboratory.
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Laboratory specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage patient, and corporate information with compassion and confidentiality.
• Process specimens in the areas of chemistry, toxicology, hematology, urinalysis, coagulation, serology, and microbiology.
• Perform general routine clinical laboratory testing in the areas of clinical chemistry, hematology, coagulation, urinalysis and blood bank.
• Perform DNA and RNA isolation, standard and real time PCR, primer design, gene sequence analysis.
• Perform clinical laboratory procedures in hematology, clinical chemistry and urinalysis.
• Provide customer service to patients and clinicians while collecting specimens and providing patient education.
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