This is a running daily post of current actions in February

February 23 5:38PM

Today I had meetings with Mac and Pub-a-thon. In the morning between meetings I also reorganized my office and unpacked all office supplies following my recent move. In the afternoon, I worked on running an alignment with bowtie2 of the manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum genome against littleneck clam leukoma staminea transcripts of gill tissue to see if this may help in building the trancriptome for littlenecks. Then I worked on editing a manuscript following co-author comments to reduce word count.

Tomorrow I will be going to Manchester to do normal MWF maintenance, following which I will continue to work on the manuscript and also write a cover letter for the submission.

February 17 5:08PM

Today I went to Manchester and do normal MWF maintenance, as well as take alkalinity samples. I reveiwed an Individual Development Plan and provided Mac with a timeline for completion. I wasn’t able to get to running a bowtie alignment, but I will make this a priority to do on Monday

Monday I plan to go to Manchester to do normal MWF maintenance I plan to work on the bowtie alignment I plan to research feeding rate studies

February 16 5:29PM

Today I finished preparing a manuscirpt about Tilapia salinity tolerance to send to my co-author Dietmar Kueltz, and sent it out. We will plan to meet to review the changes next week I entered data related to T0 measurements of Condition Index and did preliminary data processing. I determined water parameters including pCO2, aragonite, and calcite for the experiment done in 2022.

Tomorrow I plan to go to Manchester and do normal MWF maintenance, as well as take alkalinity samples. I plan to reveiw a Individual Development plan and provide Mac with a timeline for completion. I plan to work on running a bowtie alignement of Manila clam genome with littleneck clam transcripts. I plan to look at feeding rate studies in preparation of working on this experiment next week.