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title: "September 2024, Monthly Goals"
author: "Kathleen Durkin"
date: "2024-09-03"
categories: ["monthly goals"]
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## September goals

-   Have finalized masters thesis committee

-   Schedule first committee meeting, to meet within fall quarter

-   Have all three confirmed references for GRFP

-   Complete draft of all GRFP application materials

-   Complete draft of SIFP application materials (this is contingent on hearing back from Andrea Quattrini in a timely manner, not a huge priority but would be nice)

-   E5 manuscript draft submitted to bioRxiv (this is also not really up to me, but I will need to make sure I'm completing all miRNA relevant requirements for this checkpoint)

## Overview of last few months

I failed to set goals or consistently log daily activities for the last \~2 months, but here's an overview of what I got done this summer:

### Oyster project

Did heat hardening on diploid and triploid Pacific oysters, sampled, and ran survivorship tests. Now just monitoring the reminder for mortality because they're taking *forever* to die, despite not being fed for a full month at this point. See the [project page](../../projects/pacific_oyster.qmd) for more

### E5 coral

The deep dive manuscript is in final stages (hopefully), and as far as I know I've fulfilled my contributions to the miRNA methods, results, and discussion sections.\
I've also started looking at gene expression and coexpression, details on that are in the expression [github](https://github.com/urol-e5/expression)

### NSF GRFP

I've been to a couple of info sessions/writing workshops for the NSF GRFP and have created my planning docs, updated CV, identified likely references, and started outlining my personal statement and research statement.

### Degree progress

My biggest goal this summer for degree progress was to nail down my committee and, due to sporadic personal and faculty availability, I unfortunately don't have that yet. I thought I had my second SAFS faculty member, but they had to pull out due to personal reasons/needing to reduce commitments for this coming quarters. I'm contacting some other faculty though and hopefully I'll have a replacement before the start of the quarter in \~3 weeks.