After a month-long vacation, I’m in Woods Hole and I’m now a Postdoctoral Scholar :open_mouth: So as much as I’d like to be like Gibbs and leap over my responsibilities like a flying loaf of bread, it’s time to get back to it and make the most of the next 18 months.

August Goals Recap

Gigas Gonad Methylation:

• Addressed reading committee edits!

Hawaii Gigas Methylation:

• Addressed reading committee edits! I was pretty low on time (and energy) so I didn’t do more than the minimum requirements

Dissertation:

• Format published chapters using Huskydown in this Github repository. There were several things that were a bit annoying to figure out since I needed to use Latex for certain things like tables, but now I have a pretty nice template for individual papers.
• Submitted my dissertation and it was approved!

Other:

• Cleaned out office and reorganized -80ºC freezer
• Put a plan together for finishing remaining projects

October Goals

Gigas Gonad Methylation:

• Revisit genes with DML and association with enrichment
• Update methods and results
• Rework discussion to include more direct comparisons to other oyster methylation papers

Hawaii Gigas Methylation:

• Clean up any remaining comments
• Send manuscript to Maria to get methods information
• Email Rajan and ask for input
• Review DSS script and determine if I should go back to methylKit for better interpretation
• Extract SNPs with EpiDiverse and create a relatedness matrix
• Look at methylation islands and non-methylated regions
• Examine overlaps between DML and other epigenomic datasets from Sascha

Coral Transcriptomics:

• Review Maggie’s extraction protocol and previous work
• Determine if metatranscriptomics, metabolomics, and/or methylation analysis are viable options

Other:

• Complete onboarding
• Think about goals and potential projects for postdoc
• Outline a project for NSF PRFB and contact letter writers
• Identify additional papers for ocean acidification and reproduction review
• Complete review for Scientific Data