status for December 13

14 Dec 2016

recent updates

• postdoc NIH F32 submitted; fingers crossed
• peru serum, biopsies, bloodmeals, and feces shipped to Glasgow
• hetmeta outlined project with Sara on heterozygosity and infection meta-analysis
• conference invited to symposium on urbanization and zoonoses during summer 2017
• sicb2017 organized student/facuty meetups

things I did today

• lab round of Bartonella PCR
• bathg addressed coauthor comments, sent revised MS for final review
• conference outlined GBWG presentation, half of slides done
• vampirebiota finally dug into Jacob's microbiome data, ran univariate and multivariate analyses for alpha diversity and immune metrics

things I should do tomorrow

• lab re-extract set of Belize 2016 DNA for Yabsley/Chris Haemosporidian PCR
• conference finish and practice GBWG presentation
• peru check in with World Courier about Glasgow arrival