Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Very first thesis draft
Last week I have been working on writing of the discussion section and preparation of my first thesis draft. The discussion section is still not fully developed but I got a very basic first draft.
Additionally, it was my turn last week for lab meeting, so I turned it into discussion on my thesis discussion. I presented some ideas on the regulation of sxy genes. Based on the information that we have so far I proposed that sxy could be regulated by one of these three mechanisms: transcription/ translation coupling, action of a riboswitch or by binding of non-coding RNA. At this point it seems that sxy regulation can be explained by each of these mechanisms however, there are also some problems and none of this models fits perfectly into the picture. I think that I’ll still have to do some reading on this subject (and maybe to discuss it with my lab mates:)).
Yesterday I revised the intro and methods sections and I think that they got much better. Today, I am starting with the revision of my results section (which at this stage has quite a bit of problems). The goal for this week is to have a nice readable draft with all of the figures and references included.
Additionally, it was my turn last week for lab meeting, so I turned it into discussion on my thesis discussion. I presented some ideas on the regulation of sxy genes. Based on the information that we have so far I proposed that sxy could be regulated by one of these three mechanisms: transcription/ translation coupling, action of a riboswitch or by binding of non-coding RNA. At this point it seems that sxy regulation can be explained by each of these mechanisms however, there are also some problems and none of this models fits perfectly into the picture. I think that I’ll still have to do some reading on this subject (and maybe to discuss it with my lab mates:)).
Yesterday I revised the intro and methods sections and I think that they got much better. Today, I am starting with the revision of my results section (which at this stage has quite a bit of problems). The goal for this week is to have a nice readable draft with all of the figures and references included.
# posted by Okapia Johnstoni @ 9:44 AM 
