Title of the talk- PR-INBRE Bioinformatics Training through the Community of Practice Model by Dr. Luis Vasquez Quiñones
Remarks of the Talk:-
-Discussed definition of Community of Practice – knowledge-based social structure – enables groups of people who share a passion for a domain
-Various stages of Community of Practice – potential, coalescing, maturing, stewardship, transformation
-Implementing the Bioinformatics Community of Practice – Update
-BiCoP training opportunities – Linux workshops, NGS workshops, relational databases, R graphical and statistical environment for data analysis
-PR-INBRE network training opportunities
-BiCoP’s Benefits – access to high-performance computing facility, educational materials for courses and labs, bioinformatics and computational training, bioinformatics seminars, PR-INBRE core services orientation, research, and education networking
About Speaker:-
Dr. Luis Vásquez Quiñones is an assistant professor of Biology and Molecular Cell Biology at Ana G. Méndez University (UAGM), Cupey Campus, is the co-director of the Bioinformatics Resource Core from PR-INBRE, and leads the orientation portion of Puerto Rico’s Community of Practice in bioinformatics.
Dr. Vásquez Quiñones was first exposed to bioinformatics when he was an undergraduate student through an introductory computer science course. During the course, he learned some programming skills but it wasn’t until he was re-exposed to bioinformatics through a graduate course that he became interested in data analysis.
Apart from his teaching and research responsibilities, Dr. Vásquez Quiñones is also the co-director of the PR-INBRE Bioinformatics Resource Core and an active member of the Puerto Rico Community of Practice in bioinformatics. Dr. Vásquez Quiñones’ goal with the Community of Practice in bioinformatics is to connect the Puerto Rico institutions together to create a community of active and open research with a focus on data science and bioinformatics.