Nick MacKnight

Coral Gene Expression and Microbial Ecology | UMiami PostDoc | NOAA Affiliate | [email protected]

[Dr. Kelsey Beavers @KelseyBeavers]

🎉 Exciting news! The last manuscript from my dissertation was just published in Royal Society Open Science! And in a fun twist of fate, the cover of this issue happens to feature a Caribbean coral 🪸 (not from our study, but serendipitous nonetheless!) https://t.co/S19s5P9jrK

[Dr. Kelsey Beavers @KelseyBeavers]

🪸New Preprint Alert!🪸 I’m excited to share our latest research on #SCTLD that uses a feature selection algorithm to identify key gene expression changes associated with disease progression in M. cavernosa and it’s dominant algal endosymbiont. https://t.co/Etq4jsAMjH

[Emily Van Buren PhD @Emily_VanBuren]

Excited to announce the #preprint of the second chapter of my dissertation is live! "Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying and Characterizing Coral Diseases" was the true passion project of my dissertation. https://t.co/Ij9O975vVe

[Dr. Kelsey Beavers @KelseyBeavers]

⭐️Internship Opportunity at TACC⭐️

This is a great opportunity to develop your skills in life sciences supercomputing, with supportive mentorship every step of the way. Please share!

Sept. 16 – Dec. 20th
In person at TACC (Austin, TX)
$1000/ wk
https://t.co/YUitBrVrmk

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@tcarpenter216 The ONLY college textbook that has gone UP in price.

Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking, 3rd edition https://t.co/PGhJ680nou

[Alex Veglia (he/him) @alex_veglia]

For anyone interested in collaborations (above and below the surface of the ocean) feel free to DM or send me an email at [email protected]

#newlab #viruses #virusbioinformatics #newpi

[Dr. Kelsey Beavers @KelseyBeavers]

Very different from talking into a screen 😅 Loved giving my first in-person conference talk at #sicb2023! Come find me if you want to talk coral, immunity and/or gene expression!

[Emily Van Buren PhD @Emily_VanBuren]

Excited to see if we can identify coral disease fate in healthy corals? Come to my #SICB2023 talk tomorrow and find out!

My talk is in the "Coral Biology and Modeling" session tomorrow (Friday) at 11 in Lonestar B. Can't wait to see you all there! 🪸

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

Great time to review your expenses and cancel subscriptions you’ve forgotten about.

You don’t meet Netflix, hbo max, and Disney+ simultaneously.

Pick one for a few months and cancel the rest.

Revisit the auto insurance, etc.

Save that dough.

[Dr. Drew Harvell @DrewHarvell]

Disease Ecology #Microbiome #Postdoc. We are currently reviewing applications and adding a closing date of mid January! Get your application in or fine to contact me with questions. We are considering part-time remote work for the bioinformatics on this one.

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@SharkyNichol @PhDVoice Honestly, if you don’t feel nervous, don’t fight that mental place. I was super grateful to have felt similarly and decided not to be introspective about it because the work has been done and no sense in finding something to drain myself fretting over.

Victory lap time 💪🏼🤿🐠🦠

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@DiseaseMatters It can be disappointing to go through a publication that feels absent of notable innovation but redundant conclusions and reporting lots of scientific effort even if unexciting is incredibly valuable at adding depth and confidence to “what is known”.

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@evo_fish @DrCarlsHorn My fiancé had a proof sent at 4 am Christmas morning and told she has 24 hours to get it back.

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@SaraDWms I’ve always seen edits as progress and a positive thing but realized some can get incredibly anxious and it’s emotionally exhausting. In undergrad were used to hand it in and it’s over with. In science it’s many revisions and so normalizing revisions as “part of doing business”.

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

This project was the reason why I joined @LauraDMydlarz lab and was away from family and gf to be fiancé for five years.

I hope you find value in it and more broadly on the analysis we employed to get to those conclusions.

Thanks for reading!

[Dr. Laura Mydlarz @LauraDMydlarz]

Thanks @ScienceAdvances !
@NickMacKnight

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@LaurenFuess @tmotsenbocker Looks so good on a sticker

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

Ever use Thermo’s SequelPrep Normalization plate?

It’s supposed to grab 25ng of DNA per sample allowing for scalable normalization before sequencing.

I worry if it “equally” retains DNA.

Wouldn’t want bias in the 16s amplicons it retains if the sample has over 25ng of DNA.

[Nick MacKnight @NickMacKnight]

@Prairie_Fairy_ Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking

The ONLY textbook I’ve owned that’s gone UP in price after the course because it’s that good.