Epigenetic Mechanisms
Plan of the Week: March 9 - 15, 2026
- My goal this week has been to rest and figure out some low- effort ways to get back into the work groove without overextending; overdoing it has been prolonging my actual getting down to business.
Plan of the Day
- Today’s plan is to clean up my notes from yesterday and identify where I have gaps in my understanding to direct my readings.
Projects Touched Today
- PhD Proposal
- Literature Review
Progress Notes
I took my notes, organized them into files separated by topic and keyword to help me understand what I was missing and what didn’t understand at the most fundamental level before pivoting to their application to my broader work.
I created 3 specific documents in my Epigenetic Mechanisms in Marine Invertebrates Knowledge Library. This links to my Notion project notes and my Foundational Knowledge Library.
My knowledge library is a space where I keep my notes on whatever topics from the ground up. For example, if I want to understand DNA methylation in Mytilus spp., I need a fundamental understanding of Mytilus biology, physiology, their ecosystem role, population in Puget Sound, general cellular biology, the current state of genomic work with marine bivalves, and finally the other epigenetic mechanisms that influence methylation. I don’t need to be an expert at the moment, but if I cannot articulate how these pieces interact, I cannot build hypotheses worth investigating.
I conducted a quick literature search in both Google Scholar and Web of Science. Lots of room (see image below) and lots of reading to be done.
From my preliminary notes, I was able to create three areas of notes applicable to understanding the role of histone modification and chromatin remodeling in a larger context as well as add several papers to Zotero for reading beyond abstracts, methods and figures.
Products & Word Count
- Notes on epigenetic mechanisms
Today’s total: 3131 words
Monthly total to date: 4373 words
Annual total to date: 26,068 words
Annual target total to date: 36,500 words
Tomorrow’s Plan
- Will be made tomorrow based on how I feel. I expect to build out my weekly plan and figure out what is on fire and what is just smoldering since I am super behind in just about everything.