Previous events and workshops

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2025

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Programming and Pizza	July 9	4:00PM-6:00PM	Northwest Building B227.45
	Programming and Pizza	June 11	4:00PM-6:00PM	Northwest Building B227.45
	Programming and Pizza	May 14	4:00PM-6:00PM	Northwest Building B227.45
	Dataverse step-by-step for biology: how to archive & publish your data	May 12	1:00PM-3:00PM	Northwest Building 453
	The Baton Pass: preparing your data for the hand-off	April 21	1:00PM-2:00PM	Northwest Building 453
	The Baton Pass: preparing your data for the hand-off	April 28	1:00PM-2:00PM	Northwest Building 453
	Programming and Pizza	April 9	4:00PM-6:00PM	Northwest Building B227.45
	Installing & Managing software (Conda; Containers)	March 26	11:00AM-12:00PM	Hybrid
	Introduction to scRNA analysis	March 12	11:00AM-12:00PM	Hybrid
	Introduction to Genome Annotation	March 5	11:00AM-12:00PM	Hybrid
	Data Visualization Spa (Love Data Month)	February 10-14	By appointment	In person; 30 min consultations
	Publishing your data analysis on GitHub (Love Data Month)	February 18	10:00AM-12:00PM	In person
	Publishing your data analysis on GitHub (Love Data Month)	February 20	10:00AM-12:00PM	Virtual
	Version Control and Collaboration using git/GitHub (Love Data Month)	February 25	10:00AM-12:00PM	In person
	Version Control and Collaboration using git/GitHub (Love Data Month)	February 27	10:00AM-12:00PM	Virtual

2024

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Scaling SLURM on the HPC cluster and benchmarking	December 3	9:30-10:30AM	Northwest Building 453
	Scaling SLURM on the HPC cluster and benchmarking	December 4	12:15-1:15PM	Northwest Building 453
	Introduction to Genome Annotation	November 5	9:30-10:30AM	Northwest Building 453
	Introduction to Genome Annotation	November 6	12:15-1:15PM	Northwest Building 453
	Submitting your first SLURM script or job array	October 15	9:30-10:30AM	Northwest Building 453
	Submitting your first SLURM script or job array	October 16	12:15-1:15PM	Northwest Building 453
	Git and GitHub Introduction	October 1	9:30-10:30AM	Northwest Building 453
	Git and GitHub Introduction	October 2	12:15-1:15PM	Northwest Building 453
	Project organization & Data management	September 24	9:30-10:30AM	Northwest Building 453
	Project organization & Data management	September 25	12:15-1:15PM	Northwest Building 453
	Introduction to Python Intensive	August 28, September 5, 12, and 19	10:00AM-1:00PM day 1; 2:00-5:00PM days 2-4	In person

2023

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Bioinformatics tips and tricks	November 8, 9, 15, and 17	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person - Various locations
	Bioinformatics tips and tricks	March 22, 23, 29, 30	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person - Various locations
	Introduction to R	March 1, 2, 8, and 9	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person - Various locations

2020

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Data Wrangling and Visualization in Python	January 28 and 30	9:30AM-12:00PM	In person
	Introduction to Python	January 21-24	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person
	Introduction to R	January 13-16	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person

2019

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Read mapping and variant calling	November 19 and 21	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person
	RNA-seq differential expression analysis in R	November 12 and 14	9:30AM-12:30PM	In person
	Introduction to Bioinformatics (tips and tricks)	November 6 and 8	9:00AM-12:00PM	In person
	Bioinformatics nanocourse*	August 12-22	NA	In person
	Read mapping and variant calling	March 26	10:00AM-4:00PM	In person
	Differential expresssion with RNA-seq	March 13	10AM-4PM	In person
	de novo transcriptome assembly	February 28	NA	In person
	Python on Odyssey	February 22	NA	In person
	Introduction to R	February 4, 7, 11, and 14	NA	In person

*2019 Bioinformatics nanocourse topics

Week 1: Introduction to R (Mon-Wed) and Introduction to Python (Wed-Fri, Northwest Building B108)

Week 2: Introduction to Bioinformatics (Monday, Lamont Library B-30), Population Genetics (Tuesday, Biolabs 1058), RNA-seq (Wednesday, Lamont Library B-30), and single-cell analysis (Thursday, Lamont Library B-30)

2018

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Read mapping and variant calling	December 4	10:00AM-4:00PM	In person
	Differential expression with bulk RNA-seq	November 13	10:00AM-4:00PM	In person
	Python on Odyssey	October 16	10:00AM-4:00PM	In person
	Introduction to R	September 25 and 27; October 2 and 4	1:00PM-4:00PM	In person
	Bioinformatics nanocourse*	August 6-10	9:00AM-5:00PM	In person
	Introduction to R	June 4-7	10:00AM-1:00PM	In person
	Peak calling	May 1	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Read mapping and variant calling	April 3	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Differential Expression with RNA-seq	March 20	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Genome Tips and Tricks	March 6	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Python on Odyssey	February 27	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Data Visualization with R	February 13	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Intermediate R	February 6	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person
	Introduction to R	January 30	10:00AM-3:00PM	In person

*2018 Bioinformatics nanocourse topics

Introduction to R, Introduction to Unix, Introduction to the Odyssey cluster, Functional Genomics, Comparative and Population Genomics

2017

Event type	Name	Date	Time	Location
	Read Mapping and Variant Analysis	December 5	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453
	Introduction to RNA-seq differential expression analysis	November 14	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453
	De novo transcriptome assembly and annotation	November 7	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453
	Python on Odyssey	October 24	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453
	Data Visualization with R	October 10	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453
	Intermediate R	October 3	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453
	Introduction to R	September 26	10:00AM-3:00PM	Northwest Building Room 453

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