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title: "November 2023, Monthly Goals"
author: "Kathleen Durkin"
date: "2023-11-03"
categories: ["monthly goals"]
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## November Goals

Let's set some goals for the month of November (note, I'll be out on vacation for a few days this month over the Thanksgiving holiday)

-   Register, plan for, and present at GSS (will be on undergrad work, not Roberts lab stuff)

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    Presented!
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-   Read 2 project-relevant papers a week (8 total)

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-   Cod project: Send samples out for RNA sequencing (don't need any sample prep, just find and send

-   Coral project: Identify short RNA's for *Porites evermanni* and *Pocillopora meandrina*

## Reviewing October Goals

**✓ Successfully run a blast search in Raven.** Completed! I was able to run through Steven's full code for blasting and annotating a cod transcriptome, and I'll hopefully be able to glean enough from his code to understand how to write my own in the future.

**✗ Read up on the cod temperature/growth project.** Not yet 😕.

**✓ Read up on E5 coral project and start to get settled in it.** Getting there! I've started reading up on ncRNAs and, while I had to miss the last two meetings of the E5 group because of a midterm and a function required for one of my scholarships, I'll be meeting with the working group tomorrow morning.

**✓ Get registered for SICB.** Completed!