One month as faculty down!

September Goals Recap

Onboarding:

• Completed all necessary trainings and set up office
• Started purging through lab equipment, but haven’t gotten a chance to reorganize
• Signed up for new PI promos but have yet to order any equipment
• Almost finalized recirculating seawater system order

Teaching:

• Reviewed 1C lab structure
• Survived the first lab section and did some grading (s/o to the 1C team for making this transition painless!)

Green Crab Pilot Experiment:

• Revised TTR and respirometry analyses
• Added dispersion analysis to metabolomics and lipidomics perMANOVAs
• Integrate physiology data with existing temperature WCNAs
• Tried a combined metabolomics-lipidomics WCNA to understand physiology-temperature-molecular connections
• Performed a DIABLO with metabolomics and lipidomics data

Other:

• CREATED MY LAB WEBSITE AND I LOVE HER!
• Provided Christelle information to update my bio on the department website
• Joined New PI Slack
• Started the FSP to learn how to thrive in this job!
• Connected with other California green crab researchers!

October Goals

Green Crab Pilot Experiment:

• Try ASCA analysis
• Outline discussion
• Write discussion
• Outline introduction
• Write introduction
• Modify abstract
• Send first draft to Carolyn!

Biol 1C:

• Keep grading
• Keep reviewing lecture content

Plan Biol 195:

I’m incorporating all of my lab set up tasks into planning Biol 195, because I need to acquire experimental equipment for the lab and for the course. I’ll also need to think about which things are course-specific versus which things are lab specific, hence the combined framework.

• Get CDFW permit
• Purchase molecular equipment
• Purchase physiology equipment
• Send Daryn list of class-specific equipment
• Finalize recirculating seawater system
• Sort through existing sample and falcon tubes
• Draft syllabus

West Coast Green Crab Experiment:

• Revise physiology data analysis
• Get SCU cluster access
• Take RNA-Seq data through HiSat2
• Take metabolomics data through WCNA

Other:

• IRB training modules for RIE2
• Continue through Generative AI course (complete ~3 more modules)

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