Jumanji understands how studying for quals works (or doesn’t work…depends on the day). What else am I planning on doing this month?!

January Goals Recap:

Virginica Gonad Methylation:

Gigas Gonad Methylation:

• I didn’t get a chance to do a GO-MWU enrichment or DMG analysis, but I reviewed my last post on C. gigas analysis.
• Made a labwork preparation plan! The sequencing plan is to figure out the plan later.
• I held off on putting together an ASLO poster, but I figured out what metrics to include on the poster itself.

Virginica Sperm Methylation:

• Didn’t tackle anything related to C. virginica sperm samples. We’re putting this on the backburner for now.

** All Mechanism Study**:

• Came up with an extraction plan! I also started looking into ATAC-Seq, but I’ll return to this next quarter when I have more time to dedicate to protocl testing.

Other:

• Submitted the C. virginica paper to bioRXiv and cleaned up the repository!
• Got all my committee reading lists and start studying for quals. Turns out reading takes a lot of energy and requires many snack and nap breaks.

February Goals:

Quals:

• Finish an initial read of all materials, including comprehensive notes
• Finish second read of all materials to establish connections to topic, other topics, and my research
• Meet with committee members as necessary to guide first and second reads

Gigas Gonad Methylation:

• Compare C. gigas and C. virginica sequencing methods
• Compare C. gigas and C. virginica general methylation landscape
• Compare C. gigas and C. virginica DML lists
• Conduct GO-MWU and DMG analysis for C. gigas DML and compare to C. virginica results
• Put together poster for ASLO

Virginica Gonad Methylation:

• Address reviewer comments and send to collaborators for review

All Mechanism Study:

• Extract RNA from frozen tissue samples
• Extract DNA from frozen tissue samples
• Extract RNA from histology blocks

Other:

• Review paper for ICES
• Try not to sleep and other good stuff