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# Training Steering Group March 2024
**Date & Time:** March 18, 10:00-12:00
**Connection details:** https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62955236256
**TrSG book:** https://hackmd.io/@elinkronander/TrSG/%2F5SYwXztaTpKrn95vDPh1jw

## Welcome 🙌🏽

## Code of Conduct reminder
Adopted from the [Recurse Rules](https://www.recurse.com/social-rules)
* Be respectful, honest, inclusive, accommodating, appreciative, and open to learning from everyone else.
* Do not attack, demean, disrupt, harass, or threaten others or encourage such behavior.
* Be patient, allow others to speak, and use the zoom reactions & chat if you would like to voice something. 
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## :hourglass_flowing_sand: Agenda:

| Duration    | Activity                                                     | Time        |
| ----------- |:------------------------------------------------------------ |:----------- |
| 5 mins      | Welcome and housekeeping                                     | 10:00-10:05 |
| 5 mins     | Welcome and introductions                                    | 10:05-10:10 |
| 10 mins     | (information) NBIS TrC                               | 10:10-10:20 |
| 30 mins     | (information) NBIS TrLs              | 10:20-10:50
| 10 mins     | AOB (any other business), Wrap-up & communications                                   | 10:50-11:00 |

## Links & Resources:


## Rollcall and icebreaker:

🗣 Name/🐸 pronouns/✍🏼 Team affiliation and Site/🔥Spring celebrations
Richel/ he / SCoRe / Still after-partying from [Pi Day](https://github.com/richelbilderbeek/pi_day?tab=readme-ov-file#2024)
Diana / she / UPPMAX / in Romania, where I'm from originally, we give each other "mărțișoare" ; I also enjoy flower seeds shopping in early spring
Nanjiang / he / SysDev, Stockholm / Prepare for planting
Anna / she / CMB, Uppsala / Coffe out in the sun!
Louella / HaC Lund / Filipino tradition of one man doing crucification
Stephan / - / Chalmers/UU / Staying indoors dreaming of Christmas
Tomas / he / Chalmers / Coffee on the balcony
Caroline/ she / AIDA, Linköping/ Be outside a lot and enjoy the sun
Elin /she/ TrC and DM Uppsala/ Easter egghunt
Katja /she/MISB Lund/Sun and exploring Skåne

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## Information from NBIS TrC
- Website
    - restructuring of training webpage in NBIS website in progress
    - Training catalogue to migrate from CANVAS to NBIS website
- Moving to Dardel
    - [Richel] Tip: [the Dardel migration guide is good and has a video](http://docs.uppmax.uu.se/cluster_guides/dardel_migration/#procedure)
- [Big Talk](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-y1aedv3Ds3pzeXN47JnXWJjaCFEeONXpPr8AUGhlE/edit)
- Done -- TrCs catch up meeting with CLs of autumn courses
- Launch of SciLifeLab Training Hub portal, [video](https://vimeo.com/904059465?share=copy) and [portal](https://training.scilifelab.se/our_resources)
    - fika session 
- Industry and training
    - Industry training coordinator : Marcin Kierczak
- ELIXIR Training platform face-to-face
    - one can join focus groups eg FAIR training, training pathways
        - contact Elin if you are interested to join a group or activity with internation effort
- Upcoming Conferences/events
    - 6th Annual Global Bioinformatics Education May 20-22, [Agenda](https://shoutout.wix.com/so/fbOt7oc46/c?w=ydn6q_FN0vcjdRKq7vVULGlLeEFZotBvdDLVNWIMBT8.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmlvaW5mb2Vkc3VtbWl0Lm9yZy9hZ2VuZGEiLCJyIjoiYTM5MmUwMGQtMGNmZS00MDViLWFkOTUtYWQ0MTY1NzQ0MDM2IiwibSI6ImxwIn0)
    - ELIXIR AHM, 10-12 June [registration](https://elixir-events.eventscase.com/attendance/event/index/43788/EN?step=login)

## Information from NBIS TrLs

Follow up from last meeting see

|  Team | Notes |
| -------- | -------- |
| AIDA |Workshop on multimodal learning and Model computational optimization|
| BIIF |
| Cell & molecular biology|    A lot of course work, scRNA, bulk-RNA, NGS-intro etc    |
| Data Management     |   Low number of applicants for spring course, but will be provided regardless (this time). Presentation on DM on this weeks 'Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS data'    |
| EvoBio | Started "internal-team-training" according to Mahesh idea, short session once a week |
| Health and Clinical  |  one interview done.  low registrants from ML Biostats 1, deadline extended and readvertised.  | 
| Microbiology, Immunology and Structural Biology |Metagenomics course was discussed a bit and we are still figuring out if there is a need for this course|
| Systems development     | Lack of courses.   possibility of Internal courses to be offered   |
| UPPMAX/SCoRe | One new AE for humanities starting soon. Julia-Python-R for HPC done, around 30 learners. Some of us have discussed and applied Blooms taxonomy for clear teaching goals. Programming Formalisms to be part of NBIS catalogue, still unsure about fees, as PF == NAISS co-organized. Upcoming courses: Bianca (sensitive data HPC cluster), Singularity, Programming Formalisms. |

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## AOB

*  [Richel, 10 or 5 mins] Training Journal Club
   * [1 min] Draft goal: to get a better idea what is written on teaching, with no threshold to attend the monthly meetings
   * [added TODO] Define scope, e.g. NBIS, ?UPPMAX, ?AIDA, ?etc
   * [added TODO] Who is driving force?
   * [added TODO] Rotating through a book? Schedule?
   * [added TODO] Add introduction to material by speaker?
   * [3 min] Draft setup:
     * Discuss a paper or book every monthly hybrid meeting
     * Presenter brings paper/digital copies
     * [added] Presenter has sloppily read the book or paper at least once
     * Presenter sends digitial copy at least one week in advance
     * Meeting has the following schedule:
         * 5 mins: presenter: why this paper/book
         * 30 mins: all read the paper/book in silence
         * 25 mins: discuss
   * [(maybe) 1 min] Feedback procedure: edit below :-)
   * [(maybe) 5 min] Feedback: 
     * Person A: DI: nice idea, but I think it'd be good to have the reference a few days / 1 week in advance
     * Person B: It's a great idea but I have some questions: 1. What will be the scope of attendees? 2. Who will drive the journal club? I think it's key to the success of the journal club. Should it be  rotational? 3. Should the journal clud use a a different paper or book every time, or better to run the same book for several sessions for continuity? 
     * Person C:Good idea!, but the part with all reading the paper/book might be stressful if time is limited. Needs a bit of steering by someone who is familiar with the field. Maybe a thematic idea per time period?
     * Person D:We can add this activity to the TrSG meeting.  Set the slot to the end of the TrSG meeting , make it public.  Doesnt have to be monthly but whenever there is a presenter.
     * Person E: Nice idea, could it also involve inviting "outside" experts to introduce a topic  or is that too much? 


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## Wrap-up & Communications

* ### What to BRING BACK to your team?
    * Book autumn courses
    * Call for Instructors: [Data-Driven Life Sciences Online Course](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJFAMaexD9-zgIgPFDISuxma97-Uv7Eyx1a72ZHmyME/edit?usp=sharing)
    * Big Talks
    * Training meeting **June 3rd 13:00-14:30**

* ### What to CATCH from your team? 
    * Topic/issue to discuss in the June Training meeting


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## Next meeting: 
April 15, **10:00-12:00** NB! New time