The OLS-3 program
Purpose: Training for early stage researchers and young leaders interested in furthering their Open Science skills
Outcome: Ambassadors for Open Science practice, training and education across multiple European and international bioinformatics communities.
Process: A 16-week mentoring & training program, based on the Mozilla Open Leader program, helping participants in becoming Open Science ambassadors by using three principles:
- Sharing essential knowledge required to create, lead, and sustain an Open Science project.
- Connecting members across different communities, backgrounds, and identities by creating space in this program for them to share their experiences and expertise.
- Empowering them to become effective Open Science ambassadors in their communities.
Table of content
- Goals and Learning Objectives
- Timeline
- Schedule
- Role Descriptions
- Collaborators
- Resources
- Community Participation Guidelines
Goals and Learning Objectives
The vision of Open Life Science program is to strengthen Open Science skills for early stage researchers and young leaders in life science.
At the end of the program, our participants will be able to:
- Describe and define the terms openness, open science, open leadership, community interactions, value exchanges, inclusivity, accessibility, open Science practices in developing resources and training
- Learn how to apply those principles to open leadership and working open in their projects and communities . Learn how to collect, invite, and tell stories that demonstrate how and why openness benefits the communities they serve
- Give original examples for the types of openness in science
- Design
- Illustrate the need for a project, its vision, and its goals
- Embrace and communicate the benefits of Open Science and how to strategically apply different open practices to their work
- Identify the public resources to share their data
- Identify the different type of Open Access and associated journals
- Build
- Start any project with openness in mind from day one
- Setup a project repository on GitHub using best practices for enabling collaboration
- Choose and apply open licenses appropriately
- Empower
- Create and enforce a safe working environment
- Promote the values of Open Science to empower others to lead and collaborate
- Include a broad range of contributors in their work
- Communicate their work and vision in a 2min demo of elevator pitch
- Lead an open project in science
Timeline
OLS’s third cohort (OLS-3) will be conducted from February to May 2021.
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December 1, 2021: Opening of the applications on Easychair
We have templates you can download to use when preparing your application.
- January 4, 2021 (12:00 CET): Application webinar ( Talk + Q&A) - Notes with Zoom call link - Recording
- January 7, 2021 (18:00 CET): Application Clinic Call ( Q&A)
- January 11, 2021: Closing of the applications on Easychair
- For the EOSC-Life collaborating organisation
- January 13, 2021 (12:00 CET): Open office hour, OLS3 for EOSC ( Q&A - Notes with Zoom call link)
- January 18, 2021: Closing of the applications on Easychair
- January 26, 2021: Successful applicants announced
- February 8, 2021: Start of the 16-week program
- May 24, 2021: Conclusion of the 16-week program
Schedule
During the program,
- Mentors and mentees meet every 2 weeks for a 30 minutes call
- Mentees participate every ~2 weeks to 90-minutes cohort calls during which the program leaders introduce new topics and resources, facilitate break-out discussions, and invite expert from the field to give talks
- Mentees can meet together for coworking sessions every 2 weeks for a 30 minutes call
- Mentors take part to mentoring workshop and calls
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
| Week | Call | Date | Topic | Agenda |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 01: February 8-12, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Meet each other and discuss your personal motivation, expectations, working practices and project goals | |
| Mentors | February 8, 2021 (18:30 European Time) | Mentor training | ||
| Mentors | February 9, 2021 (15:00 European Time) | Mentor training | ||
| Week 02: February 15-19, 2021 | Cohort | February 17, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Welcome to Open Life Science! | Meet other members of your cohort, Share project vision, Intro to working openly (open canvas) |
| Week 03: February 22-26, 2021 | Mentors | February 22, 2021 (10:00 European Time) | Mentoring workshop | |
| Mentors | February 23, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Mentoring workshop | ||
| Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Discuss assignments from the cohort call & concrete implementations | ||
| Coworking | February 24, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Open office hour, coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | ||
| Week 04: March 1-5, 2021 | Cohort | March 03, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects | Working with GitHub as a community hub: Markdown as a tool to make websites, Licence, Goals and Roadmap, Contributors, Code of Conduct |
| Week 05: March 8-12, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
| Cohort | March 10, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Skill-up: GitHub tutorial for beginners | ||
| Week 06: March 15-19, 2021 | Cohort | March 17, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Open Science I: Project Development | Developing Open Projects: Iterative and agile project management, Open- Source, Software, Hardware, Data |
| Week 07: March 22-26, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
| Mentors | Mentor training | |||
| Coworking | March 24, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Open office hour, coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | ||
| Week 08: March 29 - April 2, 2021 | Cohort | March 31, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination | Sharing Open Project: Preprint publications, DOI and citation, Open protocols, Open Education & Training |
| Week 09: April 5-9, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
| Cohort | April 07, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Skill-up: Personal Ecology and Ally Skills | ||
| Week 10: April 12-16, 2021 | Cohort | April 14, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles | FAIRification of existing or mature projects, etc |
| Week 11: April 19-23, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
| Coworking | April 21, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Open office hour, coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | ||
| Week 12: April 26-30, 2021 | Cohort | April 28, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond! | |
| Week 13: May 3-7, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
| Cohort | May 05, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Social | ||
| Week 14: May 10-14, 2021 | Cohort | May 12, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Designing & Empowering for inclusivity | Personas and pathways for contributors, Implicit bias & Community interactions |
| Week 15: May 17-21, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Preparation for the final demos | |
| Cohort | Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1 | |||
| Cohort | Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2 | |||
| Week 16: May 24-28, 2021 | Cohort | Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1 | 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call) | |
| Cohort | Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2 | 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call) | ||
| Mentors | Mentor wrap up |
Role Descriptions
Project leads (aka Mentees)
Participants join this program with a project that they either are already working on or want to develop during this program. More details about the role of a project lead (mentee) can be found here.
For the third round of the Open Life Science program, we welcome 66 participants with 37 projects.
Mentors
Our project leads are supported in this program by our mentor-community who are paired based on the compatibility of expertise, interests and requirements of their projects. Our mentors are Open Science practitioners and champions with previous experiences in training and mentoring. They are currently working in different professions in data science, publishing, community building, software development, clinical studies, industries, scientific training and IT services.
Mentors advise and inspire
- Connect: to people, programs, companies
- Recommend: resources, readings, classes, experiences
- Feedback: for the project leads to consider
Pool of mentors
We thank the 34 mentors this round.
Bioinformatics PhD student in the Edward Wallace Lab at the University of Edinburgh. Researching how yeast transcriptomes are regulated in response to stress. Alumnus of the eLife Innovation Leaders program and strong proponent of open and reproducible science.
Anelda is the founder of Talarify, a South Africa-based consultancy working with researchers and postgraduates to help grow digital, computational, and open science literacy. She has a formal background in bioinformatics, but spend most of her time working in interdisciplinary teams these days. She is currently formally involved in two projects: 1) afrimapr, funded by Wellcome Open Research, where the team is working with data science communities in Africa and beyond to help make African data more accessible via the development of R building blocks; and 2) Surveying Open Data Practices in 8 African countries, funded by the IDRC.
Anna is a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the University of Sheffield with a background in Marine Macroecology and research software development in R. She is part of a team of RSEs working to help researchers build more robust analysis pipelines and software, promote best practice in research programming and digital resource management and facilitate the shift to more open, transparent and collaborative research culture. She is also an editor for rOpenSci, a 2019 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and a member of the ReproHack core team. Overall, her passion lies in helping researchers and the research community as a whole make better use of the real workhorses of research, code and data, and in spreading the word about the joys of R.
Beth is a research consultant and social scientist. She helps technologists, designers and scientists work with human-centered data. She is the founder of Open Post Academics (formerly the Athenas), an online peer-support network for people with a Ph.D. who have left or are considering leaving academia. She is a storyteller and a writer with the Pushcart Prize nomination. She lives in Portland, Oregon and in her free time enjoys spinning yarn, knitting, aerial silks and travel.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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.
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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 Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the DECOVID project and I am an contributor to The Turing Way.
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.
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.
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).
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
I am an EANBiT scholar from Pwani University with an MSc in Bioinformatics. I have developed a keen interest in immune-informatics, genomics and developing workflow management systems to enhance reproducible and scalable data analysis. I am a certified software carpentry instructor and an Open Life Science (OLS), graduate.
Laura is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, researching the use of data assemblages in the public sector in England. Before this, she worked for almost a decade as a researcher at Amnesty International, focusing on gender, women’s rights, and LGBTI rights. She believes in research as a means to an end: to building a better world for everyone.
I am a tenured adjunct researcher leading a health data science group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others. I am a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries. In 2020, I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community.
Louise is a social scientist specialising in Critical Data Studies. Her work examines the evolving Open Data/Open Science landscape and the evolution of data sharing infrastructures, practices and communities. In particular, her work focuses on issues of justice, access and marginalization.
Mallory is a Project Lead at 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.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
I am a Senior Scientist in Systems Biology at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur, India. I obtained my PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark after having worked in Lene Juel Rasmussen’s lab. I went on to gain seven years of post-doctoral experience and sabbatical visits in various laboratories before taking up the current position. I love traveling and had been to over 70+ countries. I love mentoring! https://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Prash
Sarah Gibson is a Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute where she helps solve real-world problems with cutting-edge techniques across academia, industry and the public sector. She is also a passionate open source contributor, primarily working with Project Binder to serve reproducible computational environments in the cloud around the world. On top of all that, she also promotes software best practices and reproducible workflows through her Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute.
Dr. Klusza is a disabled (deaf) Assistant Professor of Biology at Clayton State University in the United States. He is a life-long developmental geneticist with high enthusiasm for synthetic biology, open science, and increasing accessibility to science and education for all people.
Toby is the Curriculum Community Developer at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Sonika has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and over 15 y of work experience in academia & industry. She is currently Bioinformatics senior lecturer and research group head at Monash University Melbourne, Australia. Her expertise is in developing novel Bioinformatics and machine learning methods and applying them to solve biological research questions. In the past, she has worked in collaboration with the Australian bioinformatics network and EMBL-EBI on developing and delivering bioinformatics workshops for biologists and bioinformaticians.
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.
Yo is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, founder of Code is Science, EngD student at the University of Manchester studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, 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.
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Mentoring training
Mentorship roles can sound like a big personal responsibility and can be overwhelming for new mentors. To support our mentors in this program, we will offer training, topic-based guided discussions and opportunity for social interaction over 4 calls during the mentorship round:
- 2 training calls in the beginning of the cohort to get participants trained and prepared for their role as mentors
- 1 catch-up call in the middle of the cohort to discuss new topics and challenges that might have occurred and address them
- 1 call at the end to capture experiences of mentors and assess their interest in future cohorts
- Social and co-working calls schedule will be agreed among the mentors as per their needs and interests
In the mentor training, our mentors will then gain mentoring skills (active listening, effective questioning, giving feedback), learn to celebrate successes and gain confidence on navigating challenges in mentoring.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among mentors to help them discuss their experiences, challenges and tips and tricks (contact the team if you are not yet on this channel).
Experts
Experts are invited to join cohort calls or individual mentorship calls to share their experience and expertise during the program.
We thank the 63 persons who registered to be experts in this round.
I am a freelance science writer and communications trainer, focused on life science communications. I am currently spreading the word about the importance and mystery of microbes living in the Ocean.
PhD with twenty years working around bioinformatics research, project-management, and training. Currently working as a leadership trainer for postdocs and PIs. For fun I enjoy painting, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and walking my dog.
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.
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.
Anna is a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the University of Sheffield with a background in Marine Macroecology and research software development in R. She is part of a team of RSEs working to help researchers build more robust analysis pipelines and software, promote best practice in research programming and digital resource management and facilitate the shift to more open, transparent and collaborative research culture. She is also an editor for rOpenSci, a 2019 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and a member of the ReproHack core team. Overall, her passion lies in helping researchers and the research community as a whole make better use of the real workhorses of research, code and data, and in spreading the word about the joys of R.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Beth is a research consultant and social scientist. She helps technologists, designers and scientists work with human-centered data. She is the founder of Open Post Academics (formerly the Athenas), an online peer-support network for people with a Ph.D. who have left or are considering leaving academia. She is a storyteller and a writer with the Pushcart Prize nomination. She lives in Portland, Oregon and in her free time enjoys spinning yarn, knitting, aerial silks and travel.
Bea participated in OLS-2 with the project “Growing the Galaxy Community”, mentored by Dave Clements. Since September 2020, she is working in the European Galaxy team helping with the coordination of the Global Galaxy Community. Initially trained in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Biology, and postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg related to imaging within the context of EOSC-Life.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
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.
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.
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.
I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.
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.
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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 Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the DECOVID project and I am an contributor to The Turing Way.
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.
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.
Dr. Wallace is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow (PI) in the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He was trained in mathematics, systems biology, and biochemistry, and now leads an interdisciplinary group studying RNA biology of fungi with data-intensive approaches. Alongside his research, Dr. Wallace is an open science advocate and teaches data literacy to scientists, working with Edinburgh Carpentries.
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
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.
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. His role is to promote research reproducibility and open science practices across the entire UF system. He is especially interested in how open practices can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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).
Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz, Incubator Fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research on Open Source Software (CROSS); Adjunct Professor at University of Sonora (Mexico). Interested in large-scale distributed data management systems, applied aspects of data science, and reproducibility. I am currently working on Popper (https://getpopper.io), as part of the CROSS Incubator Program.
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
Joel is a Teaching Fellow for a graduate Data Science program. He did his PhD in Stem Cell Engineering and enjoys learning and teaching how to better understand data (and thus the world around us!). He is also passionate about openness, reproducibility, and data visualization, both within science and in general.
With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Dr. Johanna Havemann is a trainer and consultant in [Open] Science Communication and [digital] Science Project Management. Her work experience covers NGOs, a science startup and international institutions including the UN Environment Programme. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label Access 2 Perspectives, she aims at strengthening global science communication in general – and with a regional focus on Africa – through Open Science.
I am a poet and performance artist. One of my main practices is ‘empathic literature’, in which a conversation with an individual leads to my creating a unique piece of poetic writing for them, with the aim of reflecting their perspective back to them in a novel way, as a tool for new insights. I am a graduate of philosophy specialising in scientific representation.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
I am a linguist turned into a research data management specialist and community manager at the VU Amsterdam library. I am interested in languages and would love to support community-oriented projects in this area. I am also keen on getting in touch with people from Russia and supporting projects for Russian audience.
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
Laura is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, researching the use of data assemblages in the public sector in England. Before this, she worked for almost a decade as a researcher at Amnesty International, focusing on gender, women’s rights, and LGBTI rights. She believes in research as a means to an end: to building a better world for everyone.
I am a tenured adjunct researcher leading a health data science group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others. I am a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries. In 2020, I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community.
Louise is a social scientist specialising in Critical Data Studies. Her work examines the evolving Open Data/Open Science landscape and the evolution of data sharing infrastructures, practices and communities. In particular, her work focuses on issues of justice, access and marginalization.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression.
Martina is currently working at the Max-Planck-Institute AE, doing cognitive neuroscience research using computational modeling techniques. She is an open-science advocate who enjoys programming and contributing to open-source projects and communities. She provides infrastructure support for The Turing Way project as a core contributor.
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
I teach bioinformatics using Galaxy, I teach martial arts, and I hate onions. No seriously, I hate them. With my very soul.
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
I am a Senior Scientist in Systems Biology at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur, India. I obtained my PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark after having worked in Lene Juel Rasmussen’s lab. I went on to gain seven years of post-doctoral experience and sabbatical visits in various laboratories before taking up the current position. I love traveling and had been to over 70+ countries. I love mentoring! https://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Prash
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)
After leaving the university, where I taught programming in an international bioinformatics course, I started working as an IT specialist helping research centers, hospitals and companies in the development of reproducible analysis environments and software. Always Wikimedian, Software Carpentry instructor when I can.
Rachael is the Research Software Community Manager for the Software Sustainability Institute and Open Research advocate at the University of Manchester. She is passionate about openness, transparency, reproducibility, wellbeing and inclusion in research. She was a project lead in Round 4 and Mentor and Cohort Host in Round 5 of Mozilla Open Leaders, and organises a women in data meetup group in Manchester called HER+Data MCR.
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.
Serah Rono is a computer scientist and writer with a knack and deep seated interest in web development and accessibility, all things open and tech community organising. Serah is currently the Director of Community at The Carpentries.
Sarah Gibson is a Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute where she helps solve real-world problems with cutting-edge techniques across academia, industry and the public sector. She is also a passionate open source contributor, primarily working with Project Binder to serve reproducible computational environments in the cloud around the world. On top of all that, she also promotes software best practices and reproducible workflows through her Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute.
Dr. Klusza is a disabled (deaf) Assistant Professor of Biology at Clayton State University in the United States. He is a life-long developmental geneticist with high enthusiasm for synthetic biology, open science, and increasing accessibility to science and education for all people.
I have my dream job as the Community Manager for rOpenSci. I’m a biologist, bioinformatician, and compulsive people-connector and knowledge-sharer. I was one of the inaugural AAAS Community Engagement Fellows and am actively involved with the new Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. My former research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. At rOpenSci I’m helping building up the social and technical infrastructure for open and reproducible research with shared data and reusable software.
I’m a biologist interested in many fields of biodiversity, especially about patterns of distribution in time/space and why. I’m also really interested in open science, softwares and databases to work in biodiversity and of course good workflows 🤓. I’m happy when I exchange knowledge and help others 🙃 .
Julieta is a PhD candidate on social studies of science & technology, with a background in environmental science. Her research asks how open science hardware can contribute to democratize science and tech in the ‘global south’ and what it means in each context. She co-founded ‘Open Hardware Makers’, a mentorship program like OpenLifeSci but for Hardware; she’s part of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community and loves tinkering with hardware and data for community science.
Toby is the Curriculum Community Developer at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Sonika has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and over 15 y of work experience in academia & industry. She is currently Bioinformatics senior lecturer and research group head at Monash University Melbourne, Australia. Her expertise is in developing novel Bioinformatics and machine learning methods and applying them to solve biological research questions. In the past, she has worked in collaboration with the Australian bioinformatics network and EMBL-EBI on developing and delivering bioinformatics workshops for biologists and bioinformaticians.
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.
Yo is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, founder of Code is Science, EngD student at the University of Manchester studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, 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.
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Experts sorted by their expertise areas
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Accessibility
Expertise:Accessibility, Road ecology, Novel ecosystems, Insects, Zines, OER
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
Expertise:Web development, Open source, Community building, Community sustainability, Accessibility, Documentation, Ressource development, Communication, Outreach, Event planning, Public speakingSerah Rono is a computer scientist and writer with a knack and deep seated interest in web development and accessibility, all things open and tech community organising. Serah is currently the Director of Community at The Carpentries.
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Addiction research
Expertise:Health data science and artificial intelligence/Biostatistics, Addiction research, Open education, Community building
I am a tenured adjunct researcher leading a health data science group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others. I am a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries. In 2020, I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community.
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Algorithm design
Expertise:Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
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Aligning digital strategy with research goals
Expertise:Science communication using social media, Creating digital content, Aligning digital strategy with research goals
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
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Ally skills training
Expertise:Community strategies, Open research
Emmy is the Community Engagement Manager for the TU Delft Open Science Programme. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
Expertise:Ecology, Health Sciences, R, Git and Github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skill trainingHao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. His role is to promote research reproducibility and open science practices across the entire UF system. He is especially interested in how open practices can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
Expertise:Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm designMalvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
Expertise:Software development, Community building, MentoringYo is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, founder of Code is Science, EngD student at the University of Manchester studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, 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.
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App/software development
Expertise:Web applications, App/software development, Conference organization, Virtual events, Community building, Evolutionary biology, Computational biology
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
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Archaeology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
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.
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Astrophysics
Expertise:FAIR data, Data management, Open data, Marine data, Astrophysics
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
Expertise:Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHubRachael is the Research Software Community Manager for the Software Sustainability Institute and Open Research advocate at the University of Manchester. She is passionate about openness, transparency, reproducibility, wellbeing and inclusion in research. She was a project lead in Round 4 and Mentor and Cohort Host in Round 5 of Mozilla Open Leaders, and organises a women in data meetup group in Manchester called HER+Data MCR.
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Automation
Expertise:Reproducible science, Git, Continuous integration, Automation, Open and public databases and sources
After leaving the university, where I taught programming in an international bioinformatics course, I started working as an IT specialist helping research centers, hospitals and companies in the development of reproducible analysis environments and software. Always Wikimedian, Software Carpentry instructor when I can.
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Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts
Expertise:Computer Science, Open infrastructure for science, DevOps for science, Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts
Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz, Incubator Fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research on Open Source Software (CROSS); Adjunct Professor at University of Sonora (Mexico). Interested in large-scale distributed data management systems, applied aspects of data science, and reproducibility. I am currently working on Popper (https://getpopper.io), as part of the CROSS Incubator Program.
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Bioanthropology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
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.
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Bioengineering
Expertise:Static and interactive data visualization, Introductory data science, Reproducible analysis workflows, Image analysis, Python, Git, Project organization, Stem cell biology, Bioengineering
Joel is a Teaching Fellow for a graduate Data Science program. He did his PhD in Stem Cell Engineering and enjoys learning and teaching how to better understand data (and thus the world around us!). He is also passionate about openness, reproducibility, and data visualization, both within science and in general.
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Bioinformatics
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, ParasitologyMelissa 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.
Expertise:RNA biology, Bioinformatics, Sequencing workflows, Training, Working open, FAIRification, Persuading sceptical colleaguesDr. Wallace is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow (PI) in the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He was trained in mathematics, systems biology, and biochemistry, and now leads an interdisciplinary group studying RNA biology of fungi with data-intensive approaches. Alongside his research, Dr. Wallace is an open science advocate and teaches data literacy to scientists, working with Edinburgh Carpentries.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training, Open ScienceA researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community managementBastian 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.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R ProgrammingA Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Expertise:Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm designMalvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Single cell transcriptomes, GalaxyI teach bioinformatics using Galaxy, I teach martial arts, and I hate onions. No seriously, I hate them. With my very soul.
Expertise:Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, MentoringI am a Senior Scientist in Systems Biology at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur, India. I obtained my PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark after having worked in Lene Juel Rasmussen’s lab. I went on to gain seven years of post-doctoral experience and sabbatical visits in various laboratories before taking up the current position. I love traveling and had been to over 70+ countries. I love mentoring! https://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Prash
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Chromatin
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression.
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Citizen science
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community managementBastian 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.
Expertise:Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratizationJulieta is a PhD candidate on social studies of science & technology, with a background in environmental science. Her research asks how open science hardware can contribute to democratize science and tech in the ‘global south’ and what it means in each context. She co-founded ‘Open Hardware Makers’, a mentorship program like OpenLifeSci but for Hardware; she’s part of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community and loves tinkering with hardware and data for community science.
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Cloud computing
Expertise:Reproducibility, Cloud infrastructure, Open source, Community building, Continuous integration
Sarah Gibson is a Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute where she helps solve real-world problems with cutting-edge techniques across academia, industry and the public sector. She is also a passionate open source contributor, primarily working with Project Binder to serve reproducible computational environments in the cloud around the world. On top of all that, she also promotes software best practices and reproducible workflows through her Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute.
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Code of conducts
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web conten, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshopsToby is the Curriculum Community Developer at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Collaborative working
Expertise:Environmental Archaeology, Palaeoecology, FAIR, Collaborative working, Open workflows, Reproducibility
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 Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the DECOVID project and I am an contributor to The Turing Way.
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Communicating in the open
Expertise:Community building, Communicating in the open, Maintaining a blog, Open software peer review, R, GitHub, Virtual events
I have my dream job as the Community Manager for rOpenSci. I’m a biologist, bioinformatician, and compulsive people-connector and knowledge-sharer. I was one of the inaugural AAAS Community Engagement Fellows and am actively involved with the new Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. My former research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. At rOpenSci I’m helping building up the social and technical infrastructure for open and reproducible research with shared data and reusable software.
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Communication
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
Expertise:Web development, Open source, Community building, Community sustainability, Accessibility, Documentation, Ressource development, Communication, Outreach, Event planning, Public speakingSerah Rono is a computer scientist and writer with a knack and deep seated interest in web development and accessibility, all things open and tech community organising. Serah is currently the Director of Community at The Carpentries.
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Community building
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Expertise:Ecology, Health Sciences, R, Git and Github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skill trainingHao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. His role is to promote research reproducibility and open science practices across the entire UF system. He is especially interested in how open practices can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
Expertise:Open scholarship, Community development, User-centered design, buildings, energy, environment quality, Data-driven evaluation of building performance, Engineering-based modelling, Mixed-method research, Social networksI am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
Expertise:Preprints, Science communication, Publishing, peer review, Community engagement, Research integrityI 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).
Expertise:Community management, Computational biology, Women in STEM, Ontologies, Imaging, R, Project managementBea participated in OLS-2 with the project “Growing the Galaxy Community”, mentored by Dave Clements. Since September 2020, she is working in the European Galaxy team helping with the coordination of the Global Galaxy Community. Initially trained in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Biology, and postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg related to imaging within the context of EOSC-Life.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community managementBastian 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.
Expertise:Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratizationJulieta is a PhD candidate on social studies of science & technology, with a background in environmental science. Her research asks how open science hardware can contribute to democratize science and tech in the ‘global south’ and what it means in each context. She co-founded ‘Open Hardware Makers’, a mentorship program like OpenLifeSci but for Hardware; she’s part of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community and loves tinkering with hardware and data for community science.
Expertise:Web development, Open source, Community building, Community sustainability, Accessibility, Documentation, Ressource development, Communication, Outreach, Event planning, Public speakingSerah Rono is a computer scientist and writer with a knack and deep seated interest in web development and accessibility, all things open and tech community organising. Serah is currently the Director of Community at The Carpentries.
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Competency frameworks
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression.
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Computational Epigenomics
Expertise:Genomics, Machine learning, Data Science, Computational Epigenomics, Transcriptomics
Sonika has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and over 15 y of work experience in academia & industry. She is currently Bioinformatics senior lecturer and research group head at Monash University Melbourne, Australia. Her expertise is in developing novel Bioinformatics and machine learning methods and applying them to solve biological research questions. In the past, she has worked in collaboration with the Australian bioinformatics network and EMBL-EBI on developing and delivering bioinformatics workshops for biologists and bioinformaticians.
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Computational Training
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomics
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.
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Computational biology
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Expertise:Community management, Computational biology, Women in STEM, Ontologies, Imaging, R, Project managementBea participated in OLS-2 with the project “Growing the Galaxy Community”, mentored by Dave Clements. Since September 2020, she is working in the European Galaxy team helping with the coordination of the Global Galaxy Community. Initially trained in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Biology, and postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg related to imaging within the context of EOSC-Life.
Expertise:Web applications, App/software development, Conference organization, Virtual events, Community building, Evolutionary biology, Computational biologyI am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
Expertise:Computational biology, Structural bioinformatics, Proteins, Molecular interactions, EducationComputational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomicsRenato 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.
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Computer Science
Expertise:Computer Science, Open infrastructure for science, DevOps for science, Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts
Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz, Incubator Fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research on Open Source Software (CROSS); Adjunct Professor at University of Sonora (Mexico). Interested in large-scale distributed data management systems, applied aspects of data science, and reproducibility. I am currently working on Popper (https://getpopper.io), as part of the CROSS Incubator Program.
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Conference organization
Expertise:Web applications, App/software development, Conference organization, Virtual events, Community building, Evolutionary biology, Computational biology
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
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Continuous integration
Expertise:Reproducible science, Git, Continuous integration, Automation, Open and public databases and sources
After leaving the university, where I taught programming in an international bioinformatics course, I started working as an IT specialist helping research centers, hospitals and companies in the development of reproducible analysis environments and software. Always Wikimedian, Software Carpentry instructor when I can.
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Course delivery
Expertise:Scientific Education and Training, Course development, Course design, Course delivery, Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses), Online training, Community building, Open Science, FAIR principles, Principles of FAIRification of (training) material, Protein Biochemistry
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.
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communicationI 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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
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Course design
Expertise:Scientific Education and Training, Course development, Course design, Course delivery, Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses), Online training, Community building, Open Science, FAIR principles, Principles of FAIRification of (training) material, Protein Biochemistry
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.
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogasterMarta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression.
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communicationI 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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
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Course development
Expertise:Scientific Education and Training, Course development, Course design, Course delivery, Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses), Online training, Community building, Open Science, FAIR principles, Principles of FAIRification of (training) material, Protein Biochemistry
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.
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Course organisation
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression.
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Creating digital content
Expertise:Science communication using social media, Creating digital content, Aligning digital strategy with research goals
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
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Culture change
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Data Management
Expertise:Data Management, FAIR Data, Ontologies, Metabolomics, Functional Genomics
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)
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Data Science
Expertise:Data Science, GitHub, Software development, Python, Machine learning, Particle Physics
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.
Expertise:Genomics, Machine learning, Data Science, Computational Epigenomics, TranscriptomicsSonika has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and over 15 y of work experience in academia & industry. She is currently Bioinformatics senior lecturer and research group head at Monash University Melbourne, Australia. Her expertise is in developing novel Bioinformatics and machine learning methods and applying them to solve biological research questions. In the past, she has worked in collaboration with the Australian bioinformatics network and EMBL-EBI on developing and delivering bioinformatics workshops for biologists and bioinformaticians.
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Data Science best practices
Expertise:Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
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Data analysis
Expertise:Ecology, Data management, Data analysis
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
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Data management
Expertise:Libraries, Data management, Digital preservation, Open source, Open access publishing, Git, Web
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
Expertise:FAIR data, Data management, Open data, Marine data, AstrophysicsEx-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
Expertise:Ecology, Data management, Data analysisYvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
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Data usage in the public sector
Expertise:Human rights, Data usage in the public sector, Gender and stereotyping, Feminist and queer approaches to tech and data, Ethical and reflexive research methodologies, Equality, Anti-discrimination and justice
Laura is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, researching the use of data assemblages in the public sector in England. Before this, she worked for almost a decade as a researcher at Amnesty International, focusing on gender, women’s rights, and LGBTI rights. She believes in research as a means to an end: to building a better world for everyone.
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Data visualisation.
Expertise:R, Reproducible research, Research software, Version control, GIS, Data visualisation.
Anna is a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the University of Sheffield with a background in Marine Macroecology and research software development in R. She is part of a team of RSEs working to help researchers build more robust analysis pipelines and software, promote best practice in research programming and digital resource management and facilitate the shift to more open, transparent and collaborative research culture. She is also an editor for rOpenSci, a 2019 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and a member of the ReproHack core team. Overall, her passion lies in helping researchers and the research community as a whole make better use of the real workhorses of research, code and data, and in spreading the word about the joys of R.
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Data-driven evaluation of building performance
Expertise:Open scholarship, Community development, User-centered design, buildings, energy, environment quality, Data-driven evaluation of building performance, Engineering-based modelling, Mixed-method research, Social networks
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
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Designing and developing training material
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web conten, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshopsToby is the Curriculum Community Developer at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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DevOps for science
Expertise:Computer Science, Open infrastructure for science, DevOps for science, Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts
Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz, Incubator Fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research on Open Source Software (CROSS); Adjunct Professor at University of Sonora (Mexico). Interested in large-scale distributed data management systems, applied aspects of data science, and reproducibility. I am currently working on Popper (https://getpopper.io), as part of the CROSS Incubator Program.
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Developmental genetics (fruit fly)
Expertise:Synthetic biology, Developmental genetics (fruit fly)
Dr. Klusza is a disabled (deaf) Assistant Professor of Biology at Clayton State University in the United States. He is a life-long developmental geneticist with high enthusiasm for synthetic biology, open science, and increasing accessibility to science and education for all people.
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Differentiation of mESC
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression.
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Digital preservation
Expertise:Libraries, Data management, Digital preservation, Open source, Open access publishing, Git, Web
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Diversity
