February Goals Recap

Pilot Green Crab Experiment:

• Addressed Carolyn’s feedback! Waiting on another round of her feedback before I can move onto sending it to Sara and Mikayla

West Coast Green Crab Experiment:

• Finally finished cleaning the transcriptome with blast
• Didn’t get to start transcriptome annotations

Biol 195:

• Ashray got through a good amount of the demographic data analysis. We’re tabling it so he can focus on gene expression analysis
• Preliminary DESeq2 analysis of gene expression at the end of the experiment
• Prelimninary edgeR analysis of gene expression at the end of the experiment

Project Lab:

• FINISHED ALL MY PREP FOR THIS CLASS THANK GOD

Other

• Completed review for Comparative Biology and Physiology A
• Finalized field trip dates for Oceans
• Finished student recruitment!

March Goals

Pilot Green Crab Experiment:

• Address remaining co-author feedback
• Submit to JEB!

West Coast Green Crab Experiment:

• Finish transcriptome annotation and final cleaning step
• Share modified count matrix to Ashray for downstream analyses

Biol 195:

• Preliminary DESeq2 analysis of gene expression at the end of the experiment

Oceans:

• Weekly course plan
• Prep first 2 weeks of material

Other

• Schedule lab meetings for next quarter
• Enroll students in research credits
• Read survey responses to develop code book
• Create tenure tracking document
• Create project tracking document

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