[Coral-List] Astrangia poculata transcriptome

[sarah davies]

Hi Doug!

Apologies! You are correct, I should have provided the definition.

ECR: Early career researcher

I hope everyone is staying well.

Cheers
Sarah

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 4:50 PM Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Could you please define "ECR"s for us.  Many of us may not be familiar
> with the lingo of your specialty.  Most journals require acronyms and
> abbreviations to be defined the first time they are used, and it is a
> generally helpful thing to do for readers, many of which may not have any
> idea what it stands for.  Thank you.  Cheers,  Doug
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:43 AM sarah davies via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hope everyone is staying well in these uncertain times.
>>
>> In case it is of interest to anyone on the listserv, our research team has
>> been working with the facultatively symbiotic coral *Astrangia poculata,*
>> We
>> have generated a transcriptome and associated annotation files for this
>> coral species from aposymbiotic tissues and these files are publicly
>> available here:
>> http://sites.bu.edu/davieslab/data-code/
>>
>> It should be noted that these data are fairly sparse (1*50bp reads) and
>> there is a genome for this species forthcoming from the wider
>> *Astrangia *group.
>> However, in case these data might be of interest, we figured we would make
>> them available, especially given that many ECRs are
>> considering bioinformatic research questions due to COVID-19.
>>
>> Happy to answer any questions!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Sarah Davies and Daniel Wuitchik
>>
>> --
>> Sarah W. Davies M.Sc. Ph.D.
>> she/her/hers
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Biology
>> Boston University
>> Office: (617) 353-8980
>> Twitter @DaviesswPhD
>> Email: daviessw at bu.edu
>> Website: http://sites.bu.edu/davieslab/
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> Douglas Fenner
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> "mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
> recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature
>
> "Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
> heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events
> ."
>
> https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths
>
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> Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
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> "Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
> and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
> have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
> Science
>
>

-- 
Sarah W. Davies M.Sc. Ph.D.
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Boston University
Office: (617) 353-8980
Twitter @DaviesswPhD
Email: daviessw at bu.edu
Website: http://sites.bu.edu/davieslab/