I’ve officially started my new position as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Santa Clara University! Students start later this month, and I have quite a bit of work to do before they arrive. I’m excited, but also very terrified and I think that’s probably a good thing. I won’t with a July Goals Recap since most of my work involved finishing up library prep.

September Goals

Onboarding:

• Complete all necessary trainings
• Set up office
• Reorganize existing lab equipment
• Order new lab materials

Teaching:

• Review 1C lab structure
• Survive the first few lab sections!

Green Crab Pilot Experiment:

• Revise demographic analysis for TTR
• Revise demographic analysis for respirometry
• Finish -omics integration analysis
• Finish -omics and physiology integration analysis
• Update methods
• Update results
• Outline discussion
• Write discussion

Other:

• Update my website
• Update SCU web profile
• Make Bluesky
• Join New PI Slack

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