March 2025 Goals

March 2025 goals and daily notebook entries.

Goals

Writing and manuscripts

  1. e5 ncRNA complete draft of manuscript submit to biorxiv (chapter 1)
  2. Edits for draft of Astrangia 2021 (chapter 2)
  3. Write Mcap chapter 3

Sample processing

  1. Send out Mcap polyA libraries
  2. Protein assay for 96 lipid/metabolite e5 samples
  3. Re-extract RNA samples for Mcap chapter

Data analysis

  1. Investigate pathways of interest for Mcap (chapter 3)
  2. Assess patterns over time of miRNA-mRNA interactions (chapter 3)
  3. Make stats tables for phys analysis for AST 2021 (chapter 2)

Field work / travel

  1. 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

  1. e5 ncRNA complete draft of manuscript submit to biorxiv (chapter 1) - yes!
  2. Edits for draft of Astrangia 2021 (chapter 2) - yes!
  3. Write Mcap chapter 3 - yes!

Sample processing

  1. Send out Mcap polyA libraries - yes!
  2. Protein assay for 96 lipid/metabolite e5 samples - no
  3. Re-extract RNA samples for Mcap chapter - yes!

Data analysis

  1. Investigate pathways of interest for Mcap (chapter 3) - yes
  2. Assess patterns over time of miRNA-mRNA interactions (chapter 3) - eh not really
  3. Make stats tables for phys analysis for AST 2021 (chapter 2) - yes

Field work / travel

  1. Make sure URI pays me for CBASS and SICB - need to double check
Written on March 2, 2025