September Goals Recap:

Manchester:

• I finished addressing reviewer comments! The manuscript is almost finalized for resubmission.

Virginica:

• I presented my preliminary results at PCSGA!
• Worked on in compGO and DAVID, but my methods are most likely wrong
• Didn’t make much headway writing because the gene enrichment stuff was confusing enough

Gigas Broodstock:

• Perfected a DNA extraction protocol and posted it
• Extracted DNA from the first batch of samples

October Goals

Manchester:

• Re-submit. That. Paper.

DNR:

• Address minor reviewer comments
• Address major comments
• Try using multivariate methods to explore relationship between environmental data and protein expression data
• Upload proteomics data to online databases
• Reformat the paper repository

Gigas Broodstock:

• Finish extracting broodstock DNA
• Identify sequencing protocol
• Prepare samples for bisulfite sequencing

Virginica

• Rework bismark and methylKit to solidfy analysis parameters
• Present more solid findings to Eastern oyster methylation project group
• Update methods and results
• Fix gene enrichment methods