Workshops & Courses
Live sessions and short courses — archived for self-study.
AZ2CH: Absolute Zero to Coding Hero
Self-Tutorials
Self-paced tutorials written by (and for) biologists
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Philosophy
Most coding tutorials are written for computer scientists, not biologists. Our pedagogy is grounded in decades of teaching graduate and undergraduate biologists, backed by the latest pedagogical research with a focus on coding fluency and deep understanding. Every example uses biological data from first-hand experience publishing biological research in peer-reviewed journals on a number of topics: invasion genetics, disease ecology, fundamental theory, and more.
The curriculum is free to read here. Printed books and e-book editions are available from DP Press. To support this project, please consider buying a book to gift to a friend or colleague, make a donation, contribute new content, or (co)-host a course or workshop.
About
The author
Dr. Robert I. Colautti is an Associate Professor of Biology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and Principal Investigator of the EcoEvoGeno Lab. His research examines how species adapt and evolve rapidly in novel environments shaped by climate change, habitat modification, and biological invasions — combining next-generation sequencing with classical field ecology and quantitative genetics. The books and workshops on this site grew directly out of more than a decade of teaching coding and computational methods to biology students at the undergraduate and graduate level.
The lab
The EcoEvoGeno Lab investigates how and why contemporary evolution occurs in novel environments, and how it shapes ecological dynamics. Active research spans tick-borne disease vectors, invasive plant species, plant local adaptation under climate change, and soil microbial communities — pairing meticulous field studies with global collaborative projects to address contemporary evolution and invasive-species management.
