April 2025 goals and daily notebook entries.

Goals

Defend and celebrate!

Writing

• Submit e5 manuscript

Daily log

20250401

• Defense prep
• Hollie meeting

20250402

• Interviews
• Defense prep

20250403

• Defense prep

20250404

• Defense prep
• Checking defense room

20250405

Nothing

20250406

• Defense practice

20250407

• Defense practice in lab meeting

20250408

TAYLOR DEFENSE

20250409

MY DEFENSE

20250410

NOTHING

20250411

NOTHING

20250412

NOTHING

20250413

• Applied for GMGI job
• Did taxes boo

20250414

• Lab meeting
• Downloading polyA data
• QC polyA data
• Looking at blast of miRNA biogen proteins

20250415

• Fastqc on polyA data
• Trying to download stuff from NCBI

20250416

• Trim polyA data
• Meeting with Lucy
• Meeting with Amanda
• Meeting with Zoe
• mirna prots for all species from http://comparative.reefgenomics.org/datasets.html

20250417

• Tried trimming polyA data
• Started ncbi upload for rRNA depleted samples

20250418

• NCBI uploads for Mcap 2023
• Ben defense!!!!!!

20250419

Nothing

20250420

Nothing

20250421

• Lab meeting

20250422

• Admin/writing stuff
• Installed updated cutadapt version on unity via conda
• Nia meeting
• Katie meeting

20250423

• Random stuff
• Downloading sperm and egg Mcap data and QC
• Trimming Mcap polyA data with new cutadapt version

Notes

• GSA for maldives