Casual talks + hands-on sessions for the PAS (Plant & Agroecosystem Sciences) community at UW, focused on computing skills, coding practices, data analysis, and practical bioinformatics tools.
When/Where: Spring 2026 - Moore Hall
Format: ~1 hour per session (tutorial + discussion + help on your own projects)
Open to everyone: all backgrounds and experience levels welcome.
- Share tutorials, workflows, and tools
- Improve research communication skills
- Promote reproducible and open science
- Build a supportive student community to help each other with coding and project questions
sessions/— slides, notes, and resources per sessionworkshops/— hands-on materials (datasets, notebooks, exercises)examples/— small example projects and reproducible workflowsresoruces/- libraries, tools, and learrning resourcesCODE_OF_CONDUCT.md— community guidelines
Speaker:
- Maria Alejandra Torres Meraz – PhD student, UW-Madison
Material:
2. Automating Cell Measurements in Fruit Cytology: A Practical Workflow Using Cellpose and Python (04/16/2025)
Speakers:
- Héctor López Moreno – PhD student, UW-Madison
- Sydney Berkeley – Research technician, UW-Madison
- Sheila Waffle – Research technician, UW-Madison
Speaker:
- Agustín Chasco – PhD student, UW-Madison
Material: