Our Events
Recent Events
ITCR AnnUal Meeting TraininG Day for Trainees!
This event took place on September 15th, 2022 at the ITCR 2022 Meeting (September 13th - 14th).
Fifteen trainees won a travel award (covering costs to attend the meeting and this trainee event)! Trainees learned about reproducibility practices, version control, code review, and more! Trainees also used our OTTR tools to create a website.
Photo by Kirk Thornton on Unsplash
Recent Talks
ITCR Training Network (ITN) Overview
September 2022 - ITCR Annual meeting - St. Louis - Carrie Wright
Leveraging R for Cancer Informatics Training
August 2022 - RMedicine 2022 - Virtual - Carrie Wright
NCI Resource: Informatics Tools and Training Opportunities - The ITCR Training Network
April 2022 - American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) - New Orleans, Louisiana - Carrie Wright & Candace Savonen (part of a larger talk)
Training Events
We host 3 different kinds of events:
Topic Workshops - These events will focus on supporting researchers, postdocs, and students to learn about a specific topic in informatics.
Train the Trainer Events - These events will focus on faculty from HBCU/MSI/TC and provide support for teaching our material at their colleges.
Citizen Science Events - These events bring people from our local communities together to discuss how cancer informatics research is done and how to engage!
Past Workshops
Topic Workshop - May 2022 - Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics Workshop
Keynote speaker Mary Goldman User Experience (UX) Design
Topic Workshop - Jan 2022 - Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics Workshop
Keynote speaker Mary Goldman User Experience (UX) Design
Citizen Science Event - Oct 2022
University of Illinois Chicago