It’s cherry blossom season! Which also means I’m back from vacation and it’s time to set some new goals.

March Goals Recap:

Virginica:

• Things went a little differently than I thought they would. Instead of doing gene product descriptions, I visualized DML and DMR to understand discrepancies in my data.
• Created a revised 5x coverage DML track and characterized location of DML
• Described general methylation trends
• Updated methods and results

Gigas Broodstock:

• Putting this on hold until I can figure out how to deal with low-volume samples

Other:

• Quantified extracted sperm DNA
• Added Jackie to my committee

April Goals

Virginica:

• Revise methods and results for general methylation and DML descriptions
• Modify paper repo so analysis is easily reproducible
• Conduct gene-level analysis
• Sort out issues with DMR and methylKit
• Draft full paper

Virginica Sperm:

• Identify samples for RNA-Seq
• Extract DNA from mantle samples
• Do MBD for sperm and mantle DNA

Other:

• Find GSR
• Schedule new committee meeting