Previous events and workshops
These are topics of previous events with no attached contents and the dates of our previous workshops. See Events & Workshops for the most up-to-date workshop content!
| = Workshop | = Short training | = User group meeting | = Special event | = Programming and Pizza |
2026
| Event type | Name | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparative Genomics User Group Meeting* | June 15 | 3:30PM-4:30PM | Northwest Building B253 | |
| Programming and Pizza | June 10 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Programming and Pizza | May 13 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Comparative Genomics User Group Meeting* | May 2 | 2:00PM-3:00PM | Northwest Building B253 | |
| Programming and Pizza | April 8 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Genomics on the Command Line | April 2, 9, 16, and 23 | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Using OMERO for Imaging Workflows: A Full-Day Virtual Hands-On Workshop | March 27 | 9:00AM-4:00PM | Virtual | |
| Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq analysis Part 2: clustering cell type annotation and differential expression | March 26 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq analysis Part 1: Pre-processing and cleanup | March 19 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| How to effectively use LLMs and coding agents for bioinformatics | March 12 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Programming and Pizza | March 11 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Command Line 101: SLURM and job management tips | March 6 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Research Services Showcase | March 5 | 10:00AM-4:00PM | Virtual | |
| Command Line 101: Git/GitHub on the cluster and on your computer | February 26 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Command Line 101: Integrating your local and cluster compute environments | February 19 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Command Line 101: Tips & tricks for aspiring power users | February 12 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Programming and Pizza | February 11 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Command Line 101: What's the deal with directories? | February 5 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual |
*Comparative Genomics User Group Meeting topics
May 2 : Introductions, group goals
June 15: Orthology
2025
| Event type | Name | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programming and Pizza | December 10 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Population Genomics: Getting started with SNPArcher | December 10 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Introduction to Genome Annotation | December 3 | 12:00PM-1:00PM | Virtual | |
| DNA sequencing with long reads | November 19 | 11:00AM-1:00PM | Virtual | |
| Introduction to Nextflow | November 13 and November 20 | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Programming and Pizza | November 12 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq | October 29 and November 5 | 12:00PM-1:00PM | Virtual | |
| Introduction to R | October 14-23, Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Programming and Pizza | October 8 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| Introduction to Snakemake | September 30 and October 7 | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Basics of git and GitHub using GitHub Desktop | September 23 | 12:00PM-1:00PM | Virtual | |
| Introduction to Python Intensive | September 2-18, Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Programming and Pizza | September 10 | 4:00PM-6:00PM | Northwest Building B227.45 | |
| The Baton Pass: Data onboarding and offboarding | August 27 | 11:00AM-1:00PM | Virtual | |
| 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 28 | 1:00PM-2:00PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| The Baton Pass: preparing your data for the hand-off | April 21 | 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 | |
| Version Control and Collaboration using git/GitHub (Love Data Month) | February 27 | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Version Control and Collaboration using git/GitHub (Love Data Month) | February 25 | 10:00AM-12:00PM | In person | |
| Publishing your data analysis on GitHub (Love Data Month) | February 20 | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Virtual | |
| Publishing your data analysis on GitHub (Love Data Month) | February 18 | 10:00AM-12:00PM | In person | |
| Data Visualization Spa (Love Data Month) | February 10-14 | By appointment | In person; 30 min consultations | |
| Introduction to Python Intensive | January 7-23, Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Northwest Building 453 |
2024
| Event type | Name | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNPArcher Tutorial - A Snakemake workflow for variant calling in non-model species | December 11 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| SNPArcher Tutorial - A Snakemake workflow for variant calling in non-model species | December 10 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Scaling SLURM on the HPC cluster and benchmarking | December 4 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Scaling SLURM on the HPC cluster and benchmarking | December 3 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Introduction to Single-cell RNA Analysis | November 20 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Introduction to Single-cell RNA Analysis | November 19 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Workflow Management and Nextflow Demonstration | November 13 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Workflow Management and Nextflow Demonstration | November 12 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Introduction to Genome Annotation | November 6 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Introduction to Genome Annotation | November 5 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Data Visulization with R and ggplot | October 30 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Data Visulization with R and ggplot | October 29 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Data Wrangling with R and tidyverse | October 23 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Data Wrangling with R and tidyverse | October 22 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Submitting your first SLURM script or job array | October 16 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Submitting your first SLURM script or job array | October 15 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Installing and Managing Software (conda, containers) | October 9 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Installing and Managing Software (conda, containers) | October 8 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Git and GitHub Introduction | October 2 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Git and GitHub Introduction | October 1 | 9:30-10:30AM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Project organization & Data management | September 25 | 12:15-1:15PM | Northwest Building 453 | |
| Project organization & Data management | September 24 | 9:30-10:30AM | 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 |