Monday:
We attend a talk by Dr. Bruce Stantom of Dartmouth Medical School in the morning. The name of the talk is Serum and Glucocorticoid Inducible Kinase and Acute Adaptation to Seawater in Fundulus heteroclitus, which roughly translates to a study of the impact of SKG on CFTR in killifish. Unfortunately, most of it went over my head. In the afternoon, I had a discussion with Junes (the other student working with Clare this summer) about possible presentation topics for GECCO.
Tuesday:
Clare sends us copies of the GAMI (Genetic Algorithms for Motif Inference) code which we will be working with, and I spend the day poking away at it. Previously, Genesis came with a default function which tried to optimize the sum of squares using random numbers, but Clare provides us with 2000 bases upstream of the CFTR gene this time.
Wednesday & Thursday:
GAMI runs some experiments in the background while I work on explaining what GAMI is.
Friday:
I spend the morning poking around Ensembl and we have a discussion about the projects we are to present at GECCO, which is in two weeks. *gasp* Clare sends me some data that I might be working on for the rest of the summer.
