Past Meetings
This page collects recaps and presentation resources from previous Research Software Engineering Community of Practice meetings.
Meeting agendas are always posted in repository issues.
5/20/26
Lightning Talks
| Name | Team | Dept | Presentation Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex McKim | Software Engineering Team | DBMI | Learning Rust by building a JRPG, and why it matters for biomedical science | Slides |
| Parker Hicks | Krishnan Lab | DBMI | MetaHQ: Harmonized, high-quality metadata annotations of public omics samples and studies | Preprint, Code, Slides |
4/15/26
Lightning Talks
| Name | Team | Dept | Presentation Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Kaufman | CU Cancer Center Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BBSR) | Department of Biomedical Informatics | uv: an extremely fast Python package and project manager | Google Slides |
| Vincent Rubinetti | Software Engineering Team | Department of Biomedical Informatics | SVG’s What’s the deal | Google Slides |
3/11/26
Lightning Talks
Approximate format:
- 4 community presentations at 5 minutes each
- 2 minutes of Q&A after each talk
| Name | Team | Dept | Presentation Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter DeWitt | Bennett Lab | Department of Biomedical Informatics | Zero Imports, Full Power: Building Portable R Packages That Just Work | - |
| Seth Russell | Bennett Lab | Department of Biomedical Informatics | Using conda to create reproducible research environments for R and Python | - |
| Jenna Tomkinson | Way Lab | Department of Biomedical Informatics | From Idea to Tool: Developing Reproducible Scientific Software | Google Slides, MIICE GitHub |
| Faisal Alquaddoomi | Software Engineering Team | Department of Biomedical Informatics | Transactions + PostgreSQL + Why should you care | Google Slides |