September goals
Have finalized masters thesis committee
Schedule first committee meeting, to meet within fall quarter
Have all three confirmed references for GRFP
Complete draft of all GRFP application materials
Complete draft of SIFP application materials (this is contingent on hearing back from Andrea Quattrini in a timely manner, not a huge priority but would be nice)
E5 manuscript draft submitted to bioRxiv (this is also not really up to me, but I will need to make sure I’m completing all miRNA relevant requirements for this checkpoint)
Overview of last few months
I failed to set goals or consistently log daily activities for the last ~2 months, but here’s an overview of what I got done this summer:
Oyster project
Did heat hardening on diploid and triploid Pacific oysters, sampled, and ran survivorship tests. Now just monitoring the reminder for mortality because they’re taking forever to die, despite not being fed for a full month at this point. See the project page for more
E5 coral
The deep dive manuscript is in final stages (hopefully), and as far as I know I’ve fulfilled my contributions to the miRNA methods, results, and discussion sections.
I’ve also started looking at gene expression and coexpression, details on that are in the expression github
NSF GRFP
I’ve been to a couple of info sessions/writing workshops for the NSF GRFP and have created my planning docs, updated CV, identified likely references, and started outlining my personal statement and research statement.
Degree progress
My biggest goal this summer for degree progress was to nail down my committee and, due to sporadic personal and faculty availability, I unfortunately don’t have that yet. I thought I had my second SAFS faculty member, but they had to pull out due to personal reasons/needing to reduce commitments for this coming quarters. I’m contacting some other faculty though and hopefully I’ll have a replacement before the start of the quarter in ~3 weeks.