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.
9/30/26
RSE-CoP Guest Talk: Quantinuum
Several guest speakers from Quantinuum explored quantum computing and emerging quantum solutions for bioinformatics. The presentation was followed by informal discussion, brainstorming, and collaborative exploration of potential applications with the Quantinuum team.
7/15/26
Welcome
Brief intro to RSE-CoP, field notes, and resources.
Lightning Talks
| Name | Team | Dept | Presentation Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Slack and Jess Murphy | RKJcollab and Hendricks Lab, respectively | DBMI | URSSI Research Software Engineering Best Practices | Slides |
Connect
Getting to know the community through discussion.
6/17/26
Lightning Talks
| Name | Team | Dept | Presentation Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanan Shorrosh | Health Data Compass | - | - | - |
Connect
Getting to know the community through discussion.
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 |