Student research assistant vs doctoral student

Differences between student research assistant and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Student research assistant example responsibilities.

• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Perform PCR amplification and electrophoresis.
• Prepare agarose gels for electrophoresis and sequencing.
• Perform biological experiments which provide data for further DNA analysis.
• Provide DNA sequencing and primer support study transposition in tobacco/tomato root development.
• Experience gain in polymer chemistry, polymer physics, material characterization, photo-polymerization techniques.
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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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