March Goals Recap

I completed all my March Goals!!!!!!! JK April Fools to me and me only.

Pilot Green Crab Experiment:

• Addressed Carolyn’s feedback, and started to address a second round of feedback from her

West Coast Green Crab Experiment:

• I am in EnTAP transcriptome annotation purgatory. EnTAP is running, but it does not finish running the job within 10 days
• Shared modified count matrix from the initial blastx cleaning with Ashray for downstream analyses

Oceans:

• Created my Weekly course plan
• Started working on converting all files into a digitally accessible format

Other

• Scheduled lab meetings for next quarter
• Enrolled students in research credits

April Goals

Pilot Green Crab Experiment:

• Finish addressing Carolyn’s comments
• Send manuscript to all co-authors for comments
• Start addressing final round of co-author feedback

West Coast Green Crab Experiment:

• Finish annotating and cleaning the transcriptome
• Provide revised count matrix for preliminary gene expression analysis

MMEP Lab:

• Project tracking spreadsheet
• Update budget spreadsheet
• Create lab handbook
• Create code of conduct
• Create lab Slack and lab calendar
• Update SCU website with brief information
• Photos and bios of undergraduate members on website
• Update recruitment information on website
• Ashray: conduct preliminary functional enrichment analysis
• Mikaela, Emma, and Clara: conduct background research for project, have research question, have draft predictions
• Sasha and Noemi: train on DNA extraction and finish extraction for all samples, order PCR, gel, and restriction digest materials

Other:

• Help with codebook creation process
• Digital accessibility for Module 2, 3, and 4 content

Back Burner

I haven’t worked on these projects in a while, but they are next on my to-do list. I don’t think they need to be in the deep freeze so I guess I gotta turn the back burner on!

Hawaii Gigas Methylation:

• Revise methylKit code
• Run bismark with the new C. gigas genome
• Update methods and results
• Revise discussion
• Revise introduction
• Revise abstract

Deep Freeze

Things that are not immediate enough to be on the backburner, so they’re stuck in the deep freeze.

Coral Transcriptomics:

These are things I need to do and can probably knock out in a week, but I think they’re a lower priority right now for me since there’s more momentum on other projects. At the very least, I need to reach out to collaborators and get this going again.

• Revise abstract
• Write discussion
• Write introduction