Laying down my monthly goals midway through March and towards the end of the quarter means that I need to be realistic/conservative.

Accomplished February/early March:

• Re-worked Oly parental OA exposure paper methods/results/discussion
• Sent Polydora paper to co-authors for final comments
• TA duties maintained
• Secured TA-ship for next quarter (shellfish biology with Jackie)
• Prepared presentations on Oly OA parental effects
• Presented twice at Aquaculture 2019 in New Orleans, the triennial NSA meeting. Presented Oly parental exposure & QuantSeq data in the Mollusc restoration session, and also in the Student Spotlight competition.
• Fulfilled my Student Recruit Co-chair duties at the NSA meeting!
• Identified how to use remaining grant money - will broaden my larval QuantSeq data, and perhaps do some samples from the 2018 winter temp/food experiment to look at gene expression in high/low performing larval families.
• Also decided to keep an eye open for opportunities to sequence adult somatic tissues after Oly OA exposure.

To do, rest of March:

• Outline of bypass proposal - start drafting during spring break downtime
• Refine discussion section of Oly 2017 paper, outline introduction
• NSA quarterly newsletter for Leroy
• Start testing QuantSeq analysis pipeline with Oly genome, Salmon (removing the multiple read/transcript auto-correct), Trinity’s isogroup designation file.
• Plan QuantSeq sample selection, RNA isolation, library prep, sequencing, etc.
• Help/facilitate Alanna with RNA extractions
• SO MUCH GRADING!!!!
• Clean up teaching lab
• Revise/finalize cover letter for Polydora paper
• Revise Multivariate Stats class paper for “publication” in EJAMS
• Photo for SAFS hallway