December 2025 Goals

December 2025 goals and daily notebook entries.

Goals

Writing and manuscripts

  1. Results for Mcap2023 analysis
  2. PolyIC manuscript full draft
  3. Start Moorea 2023 paper (abstract, outline methods)
  4. Draft of Westcott oyster priming manuscript

Analysis

  1. RNAseq analysis for Hawaii 2023
  2. Lipid analysis for Hawaii 2023
  3. Finalize Hawaii 2023 scripts and data sets

Field work

  1. Conduct fall/winter assessments at Westcott (Dec 2)
  2. Conduct lab survival assays of Westcott oysters (Dec 8-12)

Funding

  1. Write IOS grant with HP

Lab experiments

  1. Guava Muse cell viability assay testing
  2. Glycogen assay testing
  3. SORMI glycogen, resazurin, and qPCR testing

Lab meeting goals

  • Goal for next lab meeting: IOS grant approach/research plan draft complete

Daily Log

December 23

  • Tank and lab maintenance and packages
  • Software install for plate reader
  • Meeting with Hollie for IOS
  • Meeting with Steven for funding proposal

December 19

  • Hawaii 2023 ASCA analysis
  • E5 molecular meeting

December 18

  • Hawaii 2023 ASCA analysis

December 17

  • IOS proposal
  • Hawaii 2023
  • SORMI meeting

December 16

  • IOS proposal
  • Job apps

December 15

  • Lab meeting
  • IOS proposal
  • E5 molecular

December 11

  • MCR AIM talk
  • Campus experiments and data analysis
  • USDA reporting
  • Westcott paper outlines
  • eScience meeting

December 10

  • MCR AIM talk
  • Campus experiments - resazurin and survival
  • PolyIC paper preprint
  • Resubmit E5 paper to journal

December 9

  • MCR AIM talk
  • PolyIC manuscript
  • Metabolomics meeting

December 8

  • MCR AIM talk
  • PolyIC manuscript

December 5

  • E5 timeseries molecular meeting
  • PolyIC paper
  • MCR AIM talk

December 4

  • PolyIC paper
  • MCR AIM talk

December 3

  • Travel back from Westcott
  • MCR AIM talk
  • PolyIC paper

December 2

  • Westcott oyster assessment
  • MCR AIM talk

December 1

  • Travel to Westcott for assessments
  • Lab meeting
  • Prepping survival assays
  • MCR AIM talk
Written on December 15, 2025