I truly don’t know what happened last month. It was just a weird haze with long lab days? Let’s see if this fake month between various holidays actually proves fruitful.

I have low expectations.

November Goals Recap

Cold Acclimation Green Crab Experiment:

• Did some genotyping troubleshooting
• FINISHED TROUBLESHOOTING
• Continued genotyping MA crabs

Green Crab Pilot Experiment:

• Ran supplementary lipidomics analyses

NSF Grant:

• Continued revising project summary

Other:

• Applied for relevant jobs
• Published RIE2 teaching module!

December Goals

Cold Acclimation Green Crab Experiment:

• Finish genotyping MA crabs
• Genotype WA crabs that were alive for the whole experiment
• Genotype remaining WA crabs
• Incorporate genotype into MA TTR analysis
• Incorporate genotype into WA TTR analysis

Green Crab Pilot Experiment:

• Finish -omics integration analysis
• Finish -omics and physiology integration analysis
• Repeated measures analysis without crab ID for TTR data
• Update methods
• Update results
• Write discussion
• Write introduction
• Write abstract

NSF Grant:

• Finalize project summary
• Send project summary to program officers and determine which program to submit to
• Present grant ideas to lab meeting
• Full grant draft
• Send materials to potential collaborators

West Coast Green Crab Experiment:

• Budget remaining NSF money
• Reorganize -80ºC so I can find all my samples
• Update summer notebook
• Identify samples for metabolomics and transcriptomics sequencing

Other:

• Put together SICB talk
• Apply for relevant jobs

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

Hawaii Gigas Methylation:

I’ll return to this when the CEABiGR paper is published.

• Finish methylKit contingency tests
• Conduct a randomization test for DML identification
• Integrate other epigenetic datasets
• Update methods and results
• Revise discussion