March 2025 Goals
March 2025 goals and daily notebook entries.
Goals
Writing and manuscripts
- e5 ncRNA complete draft of manuscript submit to biorxiv (chapter 1)
- Edits for draft of Astrangia 2021 (chapter 2)
- Write Mcap chapter 3
Sample processing
- Send out Mcap polyA libraries
- Protein assay for 96 lipid/metabolite e5 samples
- Re-extract RNA samples for Mcap chapter
Data analysis
- Investigate pathways of interest for Mcap (chapter 3)
- Assess patterns over time of miRNA-mRNA interactions (chapter 3)
- Make stats tables for phys analysis for AST 2021 (chapter 2)
Field work / travel
- Make sure URI pays me for CBASS and SICB
Daily log
20250301
Vacation
20250302
- Enrichment of pos/neg correlations for each group (maternal, mzt1, mzt2, zga1, zga2)
20250303
- Lab meeting
- Dr appt
- Submitting AST RNA and smRNA sequences to SRA
20250304
- Chapter 3 writing
- Therapy
- Ben meeting
20250305
- Chapter 3 writing + analysis
20250306
- Writing - chapter 3 methods, chapter 2 methods + results
- Request to schedule an oral defense form
20250307
- PVD science rally
- Labeled tubes for extractions
- Prepped polyA libraries to send
20250308
- Extracted 16 Mcap DT samples
20250309
- Applied to Coral Vita position
- Made defense zoom link
- Extracted 16 Mcap DT samples
20250310
- Shipment stuff for polyA libraries
- Gel + QC for extracted samples
- Lab meeting
- Chapter 3 writing
20250311
- Shipped polyA libraries
- Chapter 3 writing
- Submitted Azenta fast grant
20250312
- Chapter 3 writing + figures
20250313
- Writing meeting
- Chapter 1 edits
- Chapter 1 basically done!!
20250314
- e5 meeting
- Uploading e5 seqs to NCBI
20250314
- Uploading e5 seqs to NCBI
- Submitted ncRNA manuscript to bioRxiv!
20250315
- Developmental timeseries writing
20250316
- Developmental timeseries writing
20250317
- Astrangia phys coding + writing
20250318
- Astrangia phys + molecular coding
20250319
- Astrangia writing
20250320
- Astrangia writing
20250320
- Writing meeting
- Dissertation writing + formatting
20250321
- Dissertation writing + formatting
20250322
- Dissertation writing + formatting
20250323
- Dissertation writing + formatting
- Coral vita interview
20250324
- Lab meeting
- Defense presentation
20250325
- Defense presentation
- Nyssa presentation
20250326
- NYUAD background check stuff
- Defense presentation
- Nyssa presentation
20250327
- Defense presentation
20250328
- Defense presentation
20250329
- Nothing!
20250330
- Defense practice
- Looking for jobs
20250331
- Defense practice + prep
- Lab meeting
How did I do on my goals this month?
Writing and manuscripts
- e5 ncRNA complete draft of manuscript submit to biorxiv (chapter 1) - yes!
- Edits for draft of Astrangia 2021 (chapter 2) - yes!
- Write Mcap chapter 3 - yes!
Sample processing
- Send out Mcap polyA libraries - yes!
- Protein assay for 96 lipid/metabolite e5 samples - no
- Re-extract RNA samples for Mcap chapter - yes!
Data analysis
- Investigate pathways of interest for Mcap (chapter 3) - yes
- Assess patterns over time of miRNA-mRNA interactions (chapter 3) - eh not really
- Make stats tables for phys analysis for AST 2021 (chapter 2) - yes
Field work / travel
- Make sure URI pays me for CBASS and SICB - need to double check
Written on March 2, 2025