Coral Gene Expression and Microbial Ecology | UMiami PostDoc | NOAA Affiliate | [email protected]
Miami, FL
Joined October 2017
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Nick MacKnight retweeted
🎉 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!) royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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🪸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. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Nick MacKnight retweeted
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. doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-500…
Nick MacKnight retweeted
⭐️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
tacc.utexas.edu/about/intern…
Nick MacKnight retweeted
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]
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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!
Exciting morning @SICB_ #sicb2023 with @KelseyBeavers and @madd_em presenting their first in person talks after 3(!) virtual talks earlier in their PhD careers! So happy to be back in person!
Nick MacKnight retweeted
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! 🪸
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.
Nick MacKnight retweeted
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.
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!
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.
Scientists really be voluntarily going to conferences then blaming the conference cuz they got Covid.
Like I say to myself when I read reviews: “If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.”
Nick MacKnight retweeted
no you don't get it, you spend 4 years generating data to put a story together, and then three strangers make you double that amount of data but you only get a few months to do it, and then if it goes well you pay the journal and they publish it
With NSF GRFPs dominating what is on the minds of many this week, I would like to share a proverb that I frequently find myself being reminded of in my own life. It is a lesson on staying emotionally balanced. The proverb begins with a Chinese farmer...
The takeaway is yours to interpret. I am sure you can reflect on moments when something that felt good and exciting was not fruitful, while disappointment that felt earth-shattering, led to opportunities you wouldn't trade away. It all becomes "a part of doing business".