New preprint!

Bacterial sepsis triggers stronger transcriptomic responses in larger primates

I am happy to report that a paper I’ve been working on for a long time is finally available on BioRxiv. We’ve submitted it to a few big-name journals at this point without success, and I’m now reformatting it for another submission. But in the meantime, we figured it was time to get it out there in some form!

This one was quite a departure from my previous expertise. I had to learn a few new bioinformatic tools and databases to work with comparative primate transcriptomes. Started from scratch with a reanalysis after a couple of journal submissions because I had finally figured out how to include a few more samples, and had some ideas to make the stats more robust. I certainly learned a ton along the way, and when it’s accepted at a peer-reviewed journal, I’ll finally have a no-arguments first-author paper. I thank my coauthors for the opportunity!

Let me know if you have any thoughts on the paper!

Update 2024-07-09: We finally got our paper accepted and published at the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (ProcB). I’m very happy to finally have published a paper that can be cited as McMinds et al. And in a pretty good journal, too! (Not that we should be focusing on such things…)