Princess S. Gilbert, Ph. D.
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Happy New Year!
Wednesday, January 6th , 2016
It's hard to believe that it's the year 2016. Summer and Fall of 2015 were both fun & challenging in their own ways. I'm looking forward to this new year both optimistically and with determination.
#LotsOfWorkToDoButThat'sNothingNew,
Princess
Manuscript Accepted & Published!
Friday, June 12th , 2015
It's unreal, but I'm finally a published author. I can officially do science (lol)! You can read about my study here! If you can't access the journal article for free, just email me and I'll be happy to send you a copy.
#Ifeeltinglyallover,
Princess
Manuscript Accepted & Published!
Friday, June 12th , 2015
It's unreal, but I'm finally a published author. I can officially do science (lol)! You can read about my study here! If you can't access the journal article for free, just email me and I'll be happy to send you a copy.
#Ifeeltinglyallover,
Princess
Manuscript Submitted!
Friday, February 13th, 2015
My first chapter has finally been submitted to a scientific journal for publication. Stay tuned to see how things turn out! I hope the reviewers like what they see.... :0]
#HappyValentinesDaytoMe,
Princess
Happy New Year?
Monday, January 5th, 2015
Fall quarter flew by! Between non-stop dissertation writing and TA’ing 6 sections of EEB 109, I could barely bring in the New Year with my eyes open. That pic on the left sums things up nicely….
#IwillsleepwhenI'maDoctor,
Princess
OMG
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Three months and roughly 130 lines of R code later (not counting the lines of code that didn't work), I'm finally able to calculate Phylogenetic Informativeness for the 5' and 3' flanking ends of the UCE core regions in our dataset. Now to add the new results to the manuscript....
#Don'tAskMeHowManyDraftsOfTheManuscriptI'veWritten,
Princess
Summer Session A Teaching is in Full Swing!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
Off to a great start teaching EEB 109L which is Introduction to Marine Science! This week I introuced plate tectonics with Milky Way candybars and water density with food coloring and salt. Lots of salt. So much salt !!!!
Also, I have no idea who the kids are in that stockphoto on the left. But they're definitely doing some type of science.
#purplefoodcoloringmakesbluewater!,
Princess
Phylogenetic Informativeness calculations of UCE Core regions are COMPLETE!
Tuesday, June 3th, 2014
This January I learned that the data I've using for the past 2 years has had some major errors in it! So this winter and spring I've been writing code in the computing languages python and R (which you can view on my github page) so that I can automate my work over my 1,200 files. Now I've finally completed some major analyses using TAPIR! The next step is to analyze just the regions flanking the UCE core without picking up on any signal created by the core region.
#neverthoughti'dbeacoder...
Princess
Spring Quarter Teaching is in Full Swing!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Looking forward to being a teaching assistant this quarter for a whopping 72 students in UCLA's Introduction to Ecology & Evolution course (LS1). Shout out to sections 2A, 2D & 2E, "Whoop Whoop"! Let's make this an awesome Spring Quarter! It's my 5th quarter being a TA and this class is one of my favorites. I can't wait to give the Botany Garden Tour ;0)
#doyourhomework!,
Princess
The Website is LIVE!!!
Thursday, February 27, 2014
It took months, but I'm finally ready to share my website with the world! Princess.com is live, whoop whoop! :0P
Let me know if you guys catch any bugs, typos or funky chunky things. Or drop me line if you like what you see or have improvements. I'm excited to leave my own offical digital footprint!
Cheers,
Princess
Dissertation Update
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
I officially started chapter 2 today ! It's not much, but it's something!