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Open Life Science
OLS Introduction
Welcome to Open Seeds Programme
"Welcome to OLS!" - Malvika Sharan - February 17, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Welcome to OLS!" - Emmy Tsang - March 07, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Welcome to OLS!" - Yo Yehudi - March 16, 2022
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Welcome to OLS!" - Yo Yehudi - September 27, 2022
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Welcome to OLS!" - Yo Yehudi - October 05, 2022
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Welcome to OLS!" - Emmy Tsang - March 07, 2023
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Welcome to OLS!" - Yo Yehudi - March 15, 2023
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
Tooling for Project Design
Open Canvas
Planning and resourcing for your project
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Yo Yehudi - January 29, 2020
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Yo Yehudi - February 17, 2021
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Yo Yehudi - March 07, 2022
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Emmy Tsang - March 16, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Bérénice Batut - September 22, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Emmy Tsang - September 29, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Yo Yehudi - September 10, 2020
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Malvika Sharan - September 27, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Yo Yehudi - October 05, 2022
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Bérénice Batut - March 07, 2023
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
"Introducing Open Canvas" - Malvika Sharan - March 15, 2023
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
Project Roadmapping
Creating project goals and milestones
"Road Mapping" - Bérénice Batut - January 29, 2020
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
"Road Mapping" - Emmy Tsang - February 17, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Emmy Tsang - March 07, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Malvika Sharan - March 16, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Emmy Tsang - September 22, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Yo Yehudi - September 29, 2021
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Emmy Tsang - September 27, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Yo Yehudi - October 05, 2022
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Bérénice Batut - March 07, 2023
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
"Introducing Road Mapping" - Paz Bernaldo - March 15, 2023
Role in OLS:
Community Researcher & Programme Coordinator (contract)
Chilean worker and researcher. Social scientist (wannabe). I am an immigrant, not an expat. Open science hardware was my entrance to the world of critical open science. “Critical” as in: it matters who gets to be involved in science.
Tooling for Collaboration
Open Licensing
Giving permission for others to use your research
"A Primer on Open Licenses" - Hao Ye - March 03, 2021
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
"Open Licensing" - Raniere Silva - March 23, 2022
Raniere is a PhD student at Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong. He worked with the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK as community officer.
"A Primer on Open Licenses" - Christine Rogers - September 24, 2020
Project Officer and Technical lead in neuroscience software and infrastructure to accelerate and open neuroinformatics research workflows, based at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Mentor for Google Summer of Code and Season of Docs, and past participant in OLS program.
"Open Licensing" - Hao Ye - March 22, 2023
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
README
Making your project welcoming for others
"READMEs for Open Projects" - Mateusz Kuzak - February 12, 2020
Mateusz is Research Software Community Manager at the Netherlands eScience Center. He has background in life sciences and have been working with bioinformatics data analysis and research software engineering. Past few years he has been involved in the Carpentries as an instructor, trainer and mentor (both in the mentoring subcommittee and mentoring teams).
"README" - Carlos Martinez-Ortiz - March 03, 2021
Carlos did his PhD in computer science, and has been working in different areas of application ever since. He likes learning about the different areas of research where digital technology can open up new areas of research. In his words - In every project I have been involved, I have always learned something new, and I love that feeling of discovering new things.
"README" - Hao Ye - March 23, 2022
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
"READMEs for Open Projects" - Mateusz Kuzak - September 24, 2020
Mateusz is Research Software Community Manager at the Netherlands eScience Center. He has background in life sciences and have been working with bioinformatics data analysis and research software engineering. Past few years he has been involved in the Carpentries as an instructor, trainer and mentor (both in the mentoring subcommittee and mentoring teams).
Code of Conduct
Setting norms and expectations for a team/community
"Contributing Guidelines and Codes of Conduct for Open Projects" - Karin Lagesen - February 12, 2020
"Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct" - Malvika Sharan - March 03, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct" - Emma Karoune - October 06, 2021
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
"Contributing Guidelines and Codes of Conduct for Open Projects" - Lilly Winfree - September 24, 2020
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
"Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct" - Sebastián Ayala Ruano - October 12, 2022
Data scientist in training and young researcher pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science, Complex Systems, and Machine Learning for drug discovery. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
Project Design for Collaboration
Set up your project to work collaboratively with others
"Welcoming new contributions to your project" - Bérénice Batut - May 12, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Setting up a project
Set up a repository for open science project
GitHub Introduction
Sharing your project through online repositories
"Introduction to GitHub" - Malvika Sharan - March 28, 2022
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Introduction to GitHub" - Malvika Sharan - October 13, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Introduction to GitHub" - Patricia Herterich - October 18, 2022
Role in OLS:
Fellowship and Finance Manager
Patricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
Good Coding Practices
Tips and practices for ensuring good quality code
"Code style, testing" - Gemma Turon - November 30, 2022
My background is in molecular biology, I only transitioned to coding and research software at later stages in my career. I’m the co-founder and CEO of Ersilia, a small nonprofit working to support researchers in low resource settings apply ML to their research in infectious diseases. I’m an enthusiast of Open Source, creating communities and making sure people can actually use the cool tools being developed around the world!
Code Review
Reviewing code to help improve your code quality
Package Management
Software environment for research reproducibility
Open Science
Open Science Introduction
Sharing knowledge for the global access
"Welcome to OLS!" - Malvika Sharan - January 29, 2020
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
"Open Science" - Yo Yehudi - April 04, 2023
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
Open Hardware
Physical and digital tools for enabling research
"Open Science Hardware" - Julieta Arancio - February 26, 2020
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
"Open tools, for opening science" - Julieta Arancio - October 08, 2020
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
"Open science hardware" - Paz Bernaldo - October 25, 2022
Role in OLS:
Community Researcher & Programme Coordinator (contract)
Chilean worker and researcher. Social scientist (wannabe). I am an immigrant, not an expat. Open science hardware was my entrance to the world of critical open science. “Critical” as in: it matters who gets to be involved in science.
Open Source Software
Making analysis reproducible with open source code
"Open Software in Research" - Andrew Stewart - February 26, 2020
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
"Open Source Software in Research" - Andrew Stewart - April 04, 2022
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
"Open Source in Research" - Sam Van Stroud - October 20, 2021
Sam is a PhD Student at the UCL Data Intensive Science CDT. Hi is an OLS-2 graduate and works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
"Open Source Software" - Aleksandra Nenadic - October 08, 2020
Software Sustainability Institute’s training lead. Over the past 5 years committed to ongoing improvement of research software practice through training and community engagement work. Driving the trends in training for researchers and scientists in computational and data analysis skills forward and helping develop new training curricula.
"FAIR Research Software" - Fotis Psomopoulos - November 05, 2020
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
"Open Science Software" - Luis Pedro Coelho - October 25, 2022
I am the principal investigator of the Big Data Biology Lab at Fudan University (Shanghai) since September 2018. Our group works in computational biology, with a focus on the very large-scale. See https://luispedro.org/
"Open Source Software " - Hao Ye - November 30, 2022
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
Open Data
Making data findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable
"Open Data" - Lilly Winfree - February 26, 2020
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
"Open Data" - Esther Plomp - March 17, 2021
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
"FAIR data" - Emma Anne Harris - April 14, 2021
Dr Emma Anne Harris’ research background is in cultural history, specifically the fear of technology, but her career has moved from science fiction to science fact. Working in research project management she has become an enthusiast for open science, research integrity, and RDM through roles including; Ethics Manager on the Human Brain Project and Research Integrity Officer at De Montfort University. Moving to Berlin from the UK in 2017, she worked on the ORION Open Science project as a Training Developer and Project Manager. She now works at Humboldt University on the FDNext Project which supports research data management through service portfolios, legal advice, and training.
"Open Data" - Renato Alves - April 04, 2022
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
"Agile & Iterative Project Management Methods" - Lilly Winfree - April 04, 2022
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
"Research data management" - Sara El-Gebali - October 20, 2021
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
"The future of Open Science? DMPs and FAIR data" - Patricia Herterich - December 15, 2021
Role in OLS:
Fellowship and Finance Manager
Patricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
"Open Data" - Paula Andrea Martinez - October 08, 2020
Paula is an Open Science advocate her passions are data management, data analytics, research, and diversity. She is a computer scientist who has worked on data intensive bioinformatics and data management. She has also collaborated on community projects such as The Carpentries, rOpenSci, RLadies. Currently she works for the National Imaging Facility in Australia.
"FAIR Data: Insights and perspectives" - Philippe Rocca-Serra - November 05, 2020
I trained as an Agronomist / Molecular Biologist before switching to Bioinformatics when joining EMBL-EBI and the ArrayExpress database. There I build up expertise in data management for functional genomics data (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics). I lead on the ISA project (https://isa-tools.org), a syntax for holding such data and STATO, an ontology for statistics. I am also involved in Data FAIRification (via FAIRsharing.org) and IMI FAIRplus, for which I coordinate the development of the FAIR cookbook (https://fairplus.github.io/the-fair-cookbook)
"Managing & developing research data (RDM)" - Sara Petti - October 25, 2022
Sara works with communities at Open Knowledge Foundation. She leads the Open Knowledge Network and manages the Frictionless Data community. She has previously worked in EU policy research and advocacy, and has managed projects on digital education and literacy with schools and public libraries from all across Europe. Sara is passionate about the open movement and strongly believes in removing barriers and opening knowledge as a means of empowering citizens and fostering democracy.
"Applying FAIR principles to (open) data management" - Bethan Iley - December 20, 2022
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
"Open Data" - Esther Plomp - May 17, 2023
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
Open Engagement of Social Actors
Engaging local actors and promoting knowledge exchange
"Citizen science using your own personal data" - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras - March 11, 2020
Bastian is a long-term research fellow at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, where he studies how bottom-up communities in citizen science can peer-produce knowledge. He’s also the Director of Research for the Open Humans Foundation, an online platform & community around empowering individuals to learn from their personal data. He started his academic career in evolutionary biology & genomics and has a PhD in Bioinformatics.
"Participatory Citizen Science" - Georgia Aitkenhead - March 31, 2021
I am a researcher at The Alan Turing Instiitute working on co-creating a citizen science platform, AutSPACEs, with a community of autistic collaborators. I also worked for 3 years for the British Civil Service in their fast track scheme. I’m a believer in creating a collaborative over competitive work ethos, equity, and open research.
"Public engagement: Open Infrastructure, Citizen Science, Science Communication" - Gilbert Beyamba - May 30, 2022
"Open / citizen sience, the only way to " - Yvan Le Bras - December 15, 2021
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
"Public engagement: Open Infrastructure, Citizen Science, Science Communication" - Marco Anteghini - December 20, 2022
"Open engagement of social actors" - Umar Farouk Ahmad - April 04, 2023
I am a nuclear physicist in ‘an environmentalist body’ and an advocate of open science. I adore topics regarding machine learning, data science, clean energy, climate change, and anything nuclear.
Open Educational Resources
Sharing teaching and learning resources
"Open Education and Training" - Caleb Kibet - March 11, 2020
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
"FAIR training" - Alexandra Holinski - April 14, 2021
I am working as a Scientific Training Officer at EMBL-EBI and dedicate my work time to developing and designing training in the field of biomedical sciences and bioinformatics. In our training courses we encourage scientists to work according to and advocate the principles of Open Science. I am not a bioinformatician myself, but a chemist / biochemist by education, with several years of experience in scientific research; mainly in the wet lab.
"Open access, Preprints" - Piraveen Gopalasingam - May 02, 2022
I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
"Usable, comprehensive, accessible, FAIR and empowering training - The case of the Galaxy Training Network" - Bérénice Batut - November 17, 2021
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
"Open Education and Training - MetaDocencia Case Study" - Laura Ación - October 22, 2020
I am a tenured researcher leading a collaborative health data science research group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others.
"Making training materials FAIR in 10 steps" - Melissa Burke - November 05, 2020
Melissa is the Training and Communications Officer with Australian BioCommons. She previously worked at EMBL-EBI and has extensive experience in developing, organising, delivering and running face-to-face and online workshops and webinars. She has a PhD in Molecular Parasitology and has worked as a Scientific Curator through which first became interested in open science practices. Some of the open-science related projects that she has been involved in include applying FAIR principles to training materials and showing researchers how they can get the most out of their data by teaching best practice in data management and the FAIR principles.
Open Access Publication
Removing barriers to knowledge access
"Pre-print and open review" - Demitra Ellina - March 11, 2020
Demitra Ellina is the Editorial Community Manager at F1000Research. She is a strong advocate of Open Research and engages with the research community to raise awareness of the F1000Research publishing platforms.
"Let's talk #preprint" - Iratxe Puebla - March 31, 2021
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
"Preprint in the Context of Open Science" - Umar Ahmad - October 22, 2020
Umar Ahmad is currently the Head, Department of Anatomy at Bauchi State University, Nigeria. He is also a founder and CEO of BioSeq, a bioinformatics company that translates omics data into informative knowledge by providing quality high-throughput sequencing (NGS) data analysis. His work in basic and translational research is focused on developing targeted therapy for human bladder cancer, colon and lung cancers with primary focus on genomics (WGS, WES) and transcriptomics (RNA-Seq, scRNA-Seq, Microarray) data integration to investigate the regulatory pathways that drive tumour recurrence and progression. Additionally, Umar works in an international team of scholarly professionals at AfricArXiv - the pan-African Open Access portal – towards increased discoverability of African research output. His role involves facilitating manuscript submission moderation and quality assurance as well as representing AfricArXiv at international meetings, events and webinars. At the Science Communication Hub Nigeria, he supports a team that provides mentorship, implements training and community building for the next generation of Nigerian scientists. Umar is a fellow of Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology (ASAPbio), a mentee and a member in The Carpentries community and a member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation. He is also the current Regional Coordinator (North East) of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network (NBGN). Moreover, Umar maintains a community of scientists who are passionate about bioinformatics in a slack workspace called Bioinformatics Hub to facilitate sharing of bioinformatics knowledge in Nigeria. (Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ayo1wHRpDvF-L5yHaBHyEqXW29EqEApfCtf3F3xiq4/edit?usp=sharing)
"FAIR Principles Promoting openness in science" - Mallory Freeberg - November 22, 2022
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
Open Evaluation
Open peer review and research evaluation
"Open Protocols" - Anita Bröllochs - March 11, 2020
Anita Bröllochs is the Head of Outreach at protocols.io. She studied Life Science Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany and her background is on optical clearing of skeletal muscle for multiphoton microscopy. Anita has a passion for open science and is also the host of a science podcast called ‘Minor Tweak, Major Impact’ which is aiming to shine a spotlight on method development.
Open Science Infrastructures
Creating infrastructure for the collective benefit
Openness to Diversity of Knowledge
Many ways to produce and apply knowledge
"Citizen Science" - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras - October 22, 2020
Bastian is a long-term research fellow at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, where he studies how bottom-up communities in citizen science can peer-produce knowledge. He’s also the Director of Research for the Open Humans Foundation, an online platform & community around empowering individuals to learn from their personal data. He started his academic career in evolutionary biology & genomics and has a PhD in Bioinformatics.
"Openness to diversity of knowledge" - Batool Almarzouq - May 02, 2023
Batool is a computational biologist affiliated with both KAIMRC in Saudi Arabia and the University of Liverpool in the UK. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle east, Batool established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, which focus on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom
Project, Community & Personal Management
Agile & Iteractive Project Management
Developing projects through iterative feedback processes
"Agile and iterative project management methods" - Yo Yehudi - February 26, 2020
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
"Agile and iterative project management methods" - Renato Alves - March 17, 2021
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
"Agile and iterative project management methods" - Renato Alves - October 08, 2020
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
Applying EDI practices to project goals and ways of working