Hi all,

I had an excellent conversation with Kayla today, who is working on the MISM internship program. She explained the program is hosting 6 interns (graduate students, 5 PhD and 1 Masters) for 10 weeks from May 18 to ~July 24. Each RP will have 2 interns, and the research projects are outlined in the attached document.

During the program, MISM will host various presentations/workshops (see the other attached doc). I think it would be great for MDSC to host an introduction to model and data sharing presentation during the first week (orientation). This could introduce the FAIR principles and existing resources such as the great model, data, code, and workflow guidelines from the Imageomics group we met at the FARR conference.

There is room in the schedule for a later presentation in July. This could focus on more detailed FAIR components like ontologies, exchange formats like SBML, and Croissant for ML workflows.

I’m happy to lead this effort. Ashok, we could also bring in other RENCI folks that are experts or at least consult with them. I know we have some folks who work with Croissant.

Happy to talk more about this before/after journal club on Tuesday. I wanted to start a conversation here since we don’t have another meeting (aside from journal club) until April 27. If this sounds good to folks, I’d like to nail down a time slot for orientation week and start outlining a presentation before April 27.

Best,

Aubrie

Aubrie Weyhmiller
Research Scientist
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Pronouns: she/her

From: Weyhmiller, Aubrie Anne <aubriew@renci.org>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 17:49
To: Kayla Kilpatrick, Ph.D. <kayla.kilpatrick@duke.edu>
Subject: Re: MDSC Lecture for MISM Internship

Hi Kayla,

Ditto, it was a great conversation! Thanks for sharing those documents. I’ll check in with the MDSC team and get back to you.

Best,

Aubrie

Aubrie Weyhmiller
Research Scientist
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Pronouns: she/her

From: Kayla Kilpatrick, Ph.D. <kayla.kilpatrick@duke.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 13:55
To: Weyhmiller, Aubrie Anne <aubriew@renci.org>
Subject: MDSC Lecture for MISM Internship

Hi Aubrie,

It was great chatting with you today! I've attached the project descriptions, along with the draft curriculum here.

For the intro lecture/workshop during orientation week, here are some times that would work for scheduling if any of these work for you/the MDSC:

-May 21: 10-11, 1-2

-May 22: 10-11, 11-12, 1-2

For a second talk, I think we might be able to squeeze something in July 1 or July 8 (maybe 11-12 or 1-2 those days).

Let me know if there's anything else I can provide that would be helpful!

Thanks!

Kayla

Kayla Kilpatrick, PhD (she/her)

Biostatistician III

BERD Methods Core

Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Duke University School of Medicine