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title: "Outlining Plans for First Committee Meeting"
author: "Kathleen Durkin"
date: "2024-11-08"
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Steven Roberts (PI), Kerry Naish, Hollie Putnam

Plan for bypass:

-   Form committee

-   First committee meeting

-   Plan of study

-   Thesis proposal

-   Thesis

-   General exam

Funding:

Thesis Work:

**Epigenetic mechanisms of stress response/environmental memory in marine invertebrates**

E5 project -- deep-dive:

Hypotheses:

-   As previously suggested in other coral species, miRNAs will be little conserved among our three study species

**Heritability/inheritance of differential DNA methylation in virginica oysters**
