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Register for the April 30 CodeBMB Webinar for Beginners

03/05 

<I>Register for the April 30 Webinar CodeBMB: Computational Literacy for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education</I>Register for the April 30 Webinar CodeBMB: Computational Literacy for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

This four-hour virtual crash course is designed to introduce novices (with little or no coding experience) to a pedagogical foundation for coding, the Google Colab environment, GitHub, and the fundamentals of Python scripting.

Coding exercises will begin with variables, loops, and logic and will proceed to plotting and calculations based on linear and nonlinear regression curve fitting. You will leave the workshop with a linear regression exercise and you will know how to adapt to your class or lab settings.

To participate, you will need a Gmail account in order to save Colab notebooks (emailed prior to webinar) to your Google drive and to create your own Colab notebooks.

Meet the Instructors

The CodeBMB team consists of four faculty members with a variety of coding and instructional skills, growing expertise in educational research and a deep commitment to making coding accessible to everyone in the life sciences.

  • Chris Berndsen, James Madison University
  • Wally Novak, Wabash College
  • Mike Foster, Penn State
  • Paul Craig, RIT

Skills Learned

After the webinar, users will be able to:

  • Understand how coding can contribute to student learning
  • Recognize and write basic Python scripts
  • Open and modify existing Colab notebooks to use in their courses.

The webinar is intended for:

  • Professional scientists in the biosciences from academia and industry starting to code
  • Post-docs and graduate students who want to bring coding into their learning environments
  • Instructors involved in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Event Details

CodeBMB: Computational Literacy for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education will take place

Thursday March 26, 2026
1pm - 5pm Eastern | 10am - 11am Pacific

Please register for this free event. An institutional email address for registration is preferred.
You will receive confirmation and a Zoom link by email before the event.

Participants may also be interested in recordings of past training events, including Python Scripting for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Part 1 and Part 2, and the 2024 course, Python Scripting for Molecular Docking.

Past news and events have been reported at the RCSB PDB website and past Newsletters.