The Trainees Breakfast is led and organized by trainees to teach each other quantitative concepts, tools and methods. A list of past and future topics covered in these meetings can be found under Events.

Reach out if you are a trainee and interested in leading a session, and also reach out if there is a topic you want covered in a meeting! qlscenter@duke.edu

 

Past Breakfasts

Presentations from these trainee-led lessons can be found under Resources.

  • Research Data Management Practices, Helenmary Sheridan, 10/29/2025
  • Technical Resources and the DCC, Ed McLaurin, 10/15/2025
  • Office Hours, 10/01/2025
  • An Introduction to Agent Based Modeling, Hannah Scanlon, 05/21/2025
  • Spatial Registration Methods for Near-Serial Section Multi-Omic Experiments, Aditya Pratapa, 05/07/2025
  • Introduction to scGPT for Single-Cell Transcriptomic Workflows, Huan Liang, 04/23/2025
  • Fiji Plugins for 3D and 3D+T Data, Kira Heikes, 03/26/2025
  • Office Hours 3/12/2025
  • Intro to Protein Binding Predictions, Ryan Baumert, 2/26/2025
  • Intro to Alphafold Protein Modeling, Ryan Baumert, 2/12/2025
  • Intro to Machine Learning, Justin Savage, 1/29/2025
  • Office Hours 1/15/2025
  • Advanced Data Visualization, Justin Savage and Nadia Eliora, 12/4/2024
  • Intro to Data Tidying and Visualization, Justin Savage, 11/20/2024
  • Office Hours 10/23/2024
  • Modeling Biological Waves and Oscillations, Rocky Diegmiller, 10/09/2024
  • Modeling Reactive and Diffusive Biological Systems, Rocky Diegmiller, 09/25/2024
  • Modeling Biological Systems Through Space and Time, Rocky Diegmiller, 09/11/2024
  • Sequencing Analysis, Raven Luo and Seth Weaver, 05/29/2024
  • ANOVA and linear modeling in R, Justin Savage, 05/01/2024
  • Introduction to Python and Image analysis, Grace McLaughlin and Alex Crocker, 04/17/2024
  • Cellpose, Priyom Adhyapok, 04/03/2024
  • Introduction to ImageJ Macros, Justin Savage, 03/06/2024
  • Introduction to Ilastik, Alvin (Ziqi) Lu, 02/21/2024