Meetups
Hacky Hour UQ
RCC supports Hacky Hour, held on UQ’s St Lucia Campus. Hacky Hour is a weekly meetup for UQ researchers to ask research-related technical issues to do with:
- high performance computing
- cloud computing
- virtual machines
- data storage
- data security
- data cleanup
- automated workflows
- data pipelines
- virtual desktops
- Python
- R
- Linux
- Software and Data Carpentry.
Experts from RCC and QCIF will be at the Hacky Hour to answer your questions, and researchers can also help each other. All UQ researchers are welcome to attend.
When: Hacky Hour UQ occurs each Tuesday, 3–4pm. Occasionally it is cancelled if no RCC and QCIF experts are available that day. For updates, follow Hacky Hour UQ on Twitter (@HackyHourStLuc) or check the blog.
Where: Hacky Hour UQ is currently being held at Café Nano, near AIBN, on the St Lucia Campus (view map).
Any questions? Email Dr Nick Hamilton: n.hamilton@imb.uq.edu.au.
Genomics focus
- First Tuesday of the month: Bioinformatics Hacky Hour — come and ask bioinformatics analysis, software and pipeline questions.
- Last Tuesday of the month: BioLab Hacky Hour — to answer your experimental design and technical sample processing questions to get you started in the lab.
During these special Hacky Hours, all researchers are welcome to attend and ask for help with all the usual research-related IT issues, such as HPC, Python and R.
Dr Nick's Image Clinic
Dr Nick Hamilton, a QCIF/RCC/IMB eResearch Analyst, holds an Image Clinic at UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) most Monday mornings. Get help with:
- bio-image analysis
- quantification
- automated image classification
- mathematics
- modelling
- analysis pipelines
- data visualisation
- computational methods.
Contact Dr Nick for more information: n.hamilton@imb.uq.edu.au.
Brisbane Microscope Facility Forum
RCC/QCIF/IMB eResearch Analyst Dr Nick Hamilton has launched a monthly meetup called the Brisbane Microscope Facility Forum.
The forum will be held on the last Friday of each month from 3pm–4pm at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at UQ St Lucia (in Large Seminar Room 3.142), with drinks to follow at the nearby Pizza Café.
The inaugural forum was held on Friday, 31 August.
All Brisbane microscope facility managers and support staff are welcome to attend.
“The idea is for people running microscopy facilities in Brisbane to meet up, exchange information, knowledge, co-ordinate activities and training, give short presentations on new technologies and facility updates etc., followed by drinks,” said Dr Nick.
The first forum featured attendees from the Translational Research Institute, Griffith University, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and UQ’s IMB, Queensland Brain Institute and School of Biological Sciences.
Please contact Dr Nick if you have any queries: nick.hamilton@qcif.edu.au.
James Springfield, IMB Microscopy Facility Manager, presenting at the inaugural Brisbane Microscopy Facility Forum on IMB’s new microscopes, including the Lattice Light Sheet Microscope and the Dragonfly Spinning Disk Microscope. (Photo: Dr Nick Hamilton.)