
Software Carpentry: Learn Basic Computing Skills to Be More Effective in the Lab
Friday, March 6, 2015 - Saturday, March 7, 2015
The New York Academy of Sciences
Software Carpentry's aim is to teach scientists and researchers at the graduate level and above in science, engineering, and medicine the basic computing concepts and skills that will let them get more done in less time, and with less pain. Our two-day curriculum shows participants how to automate repetitive tasks with the Unix shell, how to grow a program from a few lines to a few hundred using Python or R, how to track and share their work using Git, and how to manage data using SQL. Lessons alternate with hands-on practical sessions, and instructors, who are all working scientists, draw on their own experience to show how these ideas are useful in real-world situations.
Instructors
Sheldon McKay, PhD
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Sheldon McKay is a computational biologist with a background in genetics and genomics. He has participated in a number of biological database projects, such as the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project and the model organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) project. He is long-time contributor to open source software for scientific computing and data interoperability. He is currently working with the Reactome Knowledgebase and the PanCancer Collaboratory with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
Matthew Aiello-Lammens, PhD
University of Connecticut
Matthew Aiello-Lammens is an ecologists currently working as a postdoc at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include conservation biology, invasion biology, community ecology, and quantitative ecology. He has experience applying a wide array of computational techniques to answer questions in physics, neuroscience, and ecology. When not doing research, he spends time with his wife and daughter, preferably out in the woods.
Jason Williams
Cold Spring Harbor
Jason Williams is the iPlant’s Education, Outreach, and Training Lead – Based out of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY, he has a background in plant molecular biology. For iPlant, Jason organizes, manages, and instructs more than a dozen annual bioinformatics workshops, conferences, and other events. He has been instructional staff at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center for the past 5 years, and been research staff at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for 5 years prior to that. Jason is also faculty at Yeshiva University – running a science immersion course at Yeshiva University High School for Girls, and is also a member of the Scientific Training Advisory Board for the Genome Analysis Centre in Norwich, UK.
Daniel Chen
Virginia Tech
Daniel Chen is a Graduate Research Associate at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. He is currently working in the Social Decision Analytics Lab studying diffusion of information in social networks. He got his Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from Columbia University and is a Doctoral Candidate at Virginia Tech in Genetics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology where he hope to bridge data science with epidemiology and health care.
Target Audience
This boot camp is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in the biomedical sciences.
Requirements
Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed. Links to download the software will be sent before the boot camp.
Preparation
Prior to the course, registrants will be given a survey to assess their computing skills. Participants will then be separated into either a novice or intermediate class.
More Information
For more information about Software Carpentry please visit http://software-carpentry.org/
Tentative Agenda
The meeting will run from 9:00 AM–5:00 PM on March 6–7, 2015. Lunch will be provided both days.
Further details forthcoming.
Registration Pricing
Member | $70 |
Nonmember | $90 |
Member (Student / Postdoc / Resident / Fellow) | $55 |
Nonmember (Student / Postdoc / Resident / Fellow) | $70 |
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Our Location
The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor
New York, NY 10007-2157
212.298.8600
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