Steven Roberts

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🌊@MarineMantegna shares her work gathering critical data to support the health of the ocean & the health of communities. A @UW SAFS grad, Chris is a champion of bringing together diverse perspectives to "do the same thing, and see how we do it together." youtu.be/VLLocGcP9S8?fe…

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🦀Bitter crab syndrome (BCS) might sound like an attitude problem, but it’s a condition faced by valuable Alaska #fisheries: snow crabs and Tanner crabs. SAFS grad Aspen Coyle shares more about her research into BCS, caused by a parasitic dinoflagellate⤵️ fish.uw.edu/2024/10/bitter…

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Beautiful and inspiring talk by Steven Roberts @sr320 on environmental memory and the role of DNA methylation in marine bivalves. @SznDohrn

Metagenomics and #COI sequencing folks: If you have deep sequencing of PCR amplified products and want to phase the different alleles, what do you use and how do you deal with PCR recombination artifacts?

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Check out our latest! We’re excited at the utility this new tool for Pacific oyster will bring. Also will share how we are using the panel @Research_VIU/ @VIUDeepBay at the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association Conference next week #shellfish78 @UBCeoas

Oregon State University announced an assistant professor position of #aquaculture - expected to contribute to shellfish research- jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/158094

The UN says more aquatic animals were farmed than fished in 2022. That’s the first time in history. apne.ws/uvdvGHb

@themetzgerm Two things we are thinking is more robust annotation with trinnotate (have no data on increased how much better this would be) and doing WGCNA to group with modules and possibly lean on annotations (processes) of other module members.

@sr320 Good question! That is what we have now in clams. We need something better than best-uniprot-hit that can be used systematically. Or we need a push to add a lot more to uniprot based on all the newly sequenced genomes out there.

Naive question for transcriptome folks: Are your “top” differentially expressed genes the ones with the smallest p-value, or biggest fold change, or some combination of the two, or is there no consensus on this?

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@themetzgerm Agree 100% but that is different from p-value / fold query. We use enrichment to reduce, as we are not confident we know how 0.2 fold versus 2.0 fold difference impacts physiology. A diff question I would love to know - what do we do when 40% of DEGs are not annotated?

@sr320 I agree, you can really be more confident with gene set enrichment. That said, it requires prior knowledge of what the gene does. It would be good to be able to find genes when we don’t already know what they do—especially in species with dodgy annotations like bivalves.