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 |
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| 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 | Mentor training | |||
| Week 02: February 15-19, 2021 | Mentors | Mentoring workshop | ||
| Cohort | 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 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Discuss assignments from the cohort call & concrete implementations | |
| Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
| Week 04: March 1-5, 2021 | Cohort | 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! | ||
| Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
| Cohort | Skill-up: GitHub tutorial for beginners | |||
| Week 06: March 15-19, 2021 | Cohort | 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! | ||
| Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
| Mentors | Mentor training | |||
| Week 08: March 29 - April 2, 2021 | Cohort | 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! | ||
| Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
| Cohort | Skill-up: Personal Ecology and Ally Skills | |||
| Week 10: April 12-16, 2021 | Cohort | 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 | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
| Week 12: April 26-30, 2021 | Cohort | Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond! | ||
| Week 13: May 3-7, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
| Cohort | Skill-up: Creative writing and storytelling workshop, followed by 30 minutes open agenda discussion | |||
| Week 14: May 10-14, 2021 | Cohort | 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.
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 22 persons who registered to be mentors 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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.’
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 is a Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute helping to solve real-world problems through cutting-edge techniques and software best practices. She also helps run the mybinder.org platform and is a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute.
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.
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
Mentors sorted by their expertise areas
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Algorithm design
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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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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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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Bioconductor
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
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Biodiversity
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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Bioinformatics
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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: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, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R ProgrammingA Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation SequencingHans-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.
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomicsMallory 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.
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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.’
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Citizen science
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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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.
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Community building
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, TeachingAs 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:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Course delivery
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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Course design
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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Data Science best practices
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomicsMallory 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.
Expertise:Ecology, Data management, Data analysisYvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
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Designing and developing training material
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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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
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.
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Ecology
Expertise:Ecology, Data management, Data analysis
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
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Education
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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Event planning
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.
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FAIR
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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FAIR principles
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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FAIR training materials
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Fieldwork
Expertise:Theoretical linguistics, Fieldwork, Research data management
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.
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Functional genomics
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Galaxy
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation SequencingHans-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.
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomicsMallory 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.
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Galaxy training
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Git
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:Community building, Mentorship, 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:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and 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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GitHub
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and 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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GitLab
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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High-throughput sequencing
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Human genomics and phenomics
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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Inclusion
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.
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Inclusive and collaborative practices
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Isotopes
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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Leadership
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.
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Libraries
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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Life Science
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Life science communications
Expertise:Life science communications
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.
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Machine learning
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training, Open Science
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R ProgrammingA Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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Mentoring
Expertise:Software development, Community building, Mentoring
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.
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Mentorship
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Metadata
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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Metagenomics
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Molecular Modeling
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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Next Generation Sequencing
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
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Ontologies
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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Open Data
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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Open Science
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training, Open Science
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
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Open access publishing
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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Open data
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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Open protocols
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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Open source
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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Osteology
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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Parasitology
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Post-transcriptional gene regulation
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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PostgreSQL
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
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Project management
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Python
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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R
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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R Programming
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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RNA biology
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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Research data management
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.
Expertise:Theoretical linguistics, Fieldwork, Research data managementI 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.
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Research methods
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.
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SQL
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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SciComm
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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Science communication
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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Scientific community engagement
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Single cell sequencing
Expertise:Metadata, FAIR principles, Single cell sequencing, RNA biology, Post-transcriptional gene regulation, Ontologies, Project management, Data management, Bioinformatics, Galaxy, R, SQL, GitHub, Human genomics and phenomics
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.
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Software development
Expertise:Software development, Community building, Mentoring
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.
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Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Mentoring
Expertise:Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Mentoring
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
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Teaching
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.
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Teaching and organising workshops
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Theoretical linguistics
Expertise:Theoretical linguistics, Fieldwork, Research data management
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.
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Training
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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: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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Unix
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Web
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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Webinar and workshop development
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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eLearning
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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neuroinformatics, open science, open source, research software
Expertise:Neuroinformatics, Open science, Open source, Research software
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.
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 37 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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.
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
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.
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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.’
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.
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
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.
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 is a Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute helping to solve real-world problems through cutting-edge techniques and software best practices. She also helps run the mybinder.org platform and is a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute.
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.
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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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, Mentorship, 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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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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Bioinformatics
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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: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, Mentorship, 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.’
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Citizen science
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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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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:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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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.
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Community building
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:Health data science and artificial intelligence/Biostatistics, Addiction research, Open education, Community buildingI 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.
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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: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.
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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Community building.
Expertise:Community building
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.
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Community consultation
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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Community goals
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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Community management
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management
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.
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Community science
Expertise:Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratization
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.
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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 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: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.
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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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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:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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Course design
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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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 Science
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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Data Science best practices
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Designing and developing training material
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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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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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
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.
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Drug discovery
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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Ecology
Expertise:Ecology, Data management, Data analysis
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
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Education
Expertise:Computational biology, Structural bioinformatics, Proteins, Molecular interactions, Education
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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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Event planning
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.
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FAIR
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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FAIR data
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.
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FAIR training materials
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Fieldwork
Expertise:Theoretical linguistics, Fieldwork, Research data management
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.
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Functional genomics
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Galaxy
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Galaxy training
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Genomics
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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Git
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:Community building, Mentorship, 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:Reproducible science, Git, Continuous integration, Automation, Open and public databases and sourcesAfter 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.
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and 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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GitHub
Expertise:Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHub
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.
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and 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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GitLab
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Health data science and artificial intelligence/Biostatistics
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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High-throughput sequencing
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Inclusion
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.
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Inclusive and collaborative practices
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Isotopes
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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Leadership
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.
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Libraries
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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Life Science
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Life science communications
Expertise:Life science communications
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.
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Linked data for community science
Expertise:Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratization
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.
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Machine learning
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training, Open Science
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R ProgrammingA Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, NeuroscienceMartina 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.
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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Marine data
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.
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Mentoring
Expertise:Software development, Community building, Mentoring
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.
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Mentorship
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Metagenomics
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics
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.
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Molecular Modeling
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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Molecular interactions
Expertise:Computational biology, Structural bioinformatics, Proteins, Molecular interactions, Education
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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Neuroimaging
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience
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.
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Neuroscience
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience
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.
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Neuroscience.
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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No listed expertise
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Open Science
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training, Open Science
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
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Open Science/Research
Expertise:Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHub
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.
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Open access
Expertise:Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints
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.
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Open access publishing
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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Open and public databases and sources
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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Open and reproducible research best practices
Expertise:Open and reproducible research best practices, Training and teaching tech to researchers, Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development
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.
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Open data
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.
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.
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Open education
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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Open infrastructure
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience
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.
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Open infrastructure 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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Open peer review
Expertise:Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints
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.
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Open protocols
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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Open research
Expertise:Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints
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.
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Open science
Expertise:Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints
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.
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Open science communities
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience
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.
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Open science hardware
Expertise:Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratization
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.
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Open source
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:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, NeuroscienceMartina 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.
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Open source documentation
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience
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.
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Organising events
Expertise:Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHub
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.
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Osteology
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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Parasitology
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development
Expertise:Open and reproducible research best practices, Training and teaching tech to researchers, Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development
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.
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Personal data
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management
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.
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Preprints
Expertise:Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints
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.
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Proteins
Expertise:Computational biology, Structural bioinformatics, Proteins, Molecular interactions, Education
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Python
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management
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.
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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.’
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R Programming
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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Reproducibility
Expertise:Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHub
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.
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Reproducible science
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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Research data management
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.
Expertise:Theoretical linguistics, Fieldwork, Research data managementI 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.
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Research methods
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.
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Road mapping and strategy planning
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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Science and tech democratization
Expertise:Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratization
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.
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Science communication
Expertise:Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication
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.
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Scientific community engagement
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Software development
Expertise:Software development, Community building, Mentoring
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.
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Structural bioinformatics
Expertise:Computational biology, Structural bioinformatics, Proteins, Molecular interactions, Education
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Mentoring
Expertise:Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Mentoring
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
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Teaching
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.
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Teaching and organising workshops
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content with Wordpress or Jekyll and GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
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.
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Theoretical linguistics
Expertise:Theoretical linguistics, Fieldwork, Research data management
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.
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Training
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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: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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Training and teaching tech to researchers
Expertise:Open and reproducible research best practices, Training and teaching tech to researchers, Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development
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.
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Transcriptomics
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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Unix
Expertise:Community building, Mentorship, 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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Version control
Expertise:Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience
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.
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Virtual events
Expertise:Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHub
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.
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Web
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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Web development
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management
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.
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Webinar and workshop development
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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eLearning
Expertise:Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology
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.
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neuroinformatics, open science, open source, research software
Expertise:Neuroinformatics, Open science, Open source, Research software
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.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among experts and other participants in OLS-3 to help them expand their network while discussing relevant topics (contact the team if you are not yet on this channel).
Organizers
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.
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.’
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.
Collaborators
OLS team have established the following collaborations to support organisation specific projects within the OLS-3 cohort:
OLS-3 for Turing
Under the collaboration name OLS-3 for Turing, Open Life Science has partnered with The Turing Way, a project within the Tools, Practices and Systems Research Program in The Alan Turing Institute.
This partnership will offer training and mentoring to interested members from Turing and The Turing Way communities to join the third cohort (OLS-3) individually or in teams. They will have an opportunity to develop Open Science aspects in the projects that they either already have been working on, or want to develop in the near future. Mentors will be preferably selected from The Alan Turing Institute but there will be a possibility to match projects with the right mentor from the broader cohort. The roles and benefits for the participants and the eligibility of proposed projects will be as described for our main program.
OLS-3 for EOSC-Life
Open Life Science has received the EOSC-Life Training grant (first round), to train and mentor EOSC-RI members under the collaboration name OLS-3 for EOSC-Life. In the simplest terms, EOSC-Life is 13 European life science Research Infrastructures making their data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) so that researchers can combine resources from multiple RIs for new research funded through our Open Calls and receive support through the variety of additional services we offer, including alignment with relevant standards and policies (GDPR, etc.).
This program will provide a unique opportunity to individuals and teams in the RIs to integrate best practices for open and reproducible research in new or ongoing projects.
Resources
The resources available to the OLS-3 cohort members will facilitate their communication, training, mentoring and learning process during their participation in the program.
Calls
Cohort calls
The full cohort meetings take place every 2 weeks (unless mentioned otherwise) and last for 90 minutes.
During these calls:
- Organisers/hosts will introduce new topic of the week
- Speakers will present their work related to the topic of the week
- Participants will be given group discussion exercises
- An open Q&A will be run and notes will be co-developed
- Exercises will be given for the week to be completed before the mentee-mentor meeting
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Look up the shared notes for each call linked to the schedule in this website. You will also be updated via email each week by the organisers with additional details to aid your participation.
If you can’t make it to a call:
The call will be recorded and available on the OLS YouTube channel after the call.
If you can not attend most calls during the program due to the time zone incompatibility or other personal obligation, please let the organisers know. If you are unable to communicate with your mentor regularly or do not engage in the program as planned, we may need to evaluate if you are able to finish the program.
Mentor-mentee calls
The Mentor-mentee calls take place every 2 weeks (unless mentioned otherwise) and last for 30 minutes.
During these calls:
- Mentors help their mentees evaluate their understanding of the new topics
- Mentees will complete their task assigned at the cohort calls using new skills learned that week
- Mentors and mentee will review progress together where mentees provide constructive feedback
- Mentors will connect mentees with other experts and get consulted on their project when needed
Coordinate with your mentor how you manage the notes and assignments for your 1:1 calls.
The online communication options can be agreed upon by the mentor-mentee pairs. A few options to explore are the following:
- Zoom: 40 mins limit for each call
- Google hangout: Free for members with google account
- Skype: Free, download the app
- Whereby.com: Free option, valid upto 4 participants
- Jitsi: Free, open source web-based call is possible
- Whatsapp or other phone-based calls: Only if both mentor and mentee are comfortable with exchanging numbers
If a mentor has to miss a mentee-mentor meeting, please discuss it with your mentee and reschedule your call. If you are unable to make it to any slot together, please find other ways (asynchronous documentation) to interact with your mentee.
If a mentor has to step back from the program for any reason, please communicate with the organisers to identify an alternative for their mentees.
Coworking calls
The coworking sessions take place in weeks during which there is not cohort call. These calls are optional but highly valuable for enhancing your understanding of the materials discussed in OLS-3 with the help of other participants.
During these calls,
- Participants can work together on the assignments
- Participants connect and talk about their projects
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Mentors calls
4 mentor calls will take place during the program.
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Speaker Guide
We have a short guide for invited speakers.
Communication channels
Communication within the cohort members
OLS-3 Slack Channel
A dedicated Slack channel has been setup to facilitate real-time as well as asynchronous communication among the all members of the OLS-3 cohort. A personal invitation link will be shared with the participants via an email.
OLS-3 private Google group
Organizers inform participants of the week schedule by email. An archive of all emails can be found on the private OLS-3 Google group.
An invitation is sent to all participants (mentees, mentors, etc) at the beginning of the program. If it is not the case, please contact the team
Communication with members not in the cohort
General updates from the program such as new posts, collaborations and relevant retweets will be shared via our official Twitter channel.
Gitter
We have a public Gitter channel that can be used by members of the public contact the OLS team and community.
OLS Google group
Updates regarding new calls for applications, announcements, and final project presentations are posted on the OLS public Google group
Community Participation Guidelines
As a community we welcome everyone, and encourage a friendly and positive environment.
This code of conduct outlines our expectations for participants within the community, as well as steps to reporting unacceptable behavior. We are committed to providing a welcoming and inspiring community for all and expect our code of conduct to be honored. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be banned from the community.
Our open source community strives to:
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Be friendly and patient.
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Be welcoming: We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.
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Be considerate: Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when making decisions. Remember that we’re a world-wide community, so you might not be communicating in someone else’s primary language.
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Be respectful: Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.
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Be careful in the words that we choose: We are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren’t acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to: Violent threats or language directed against another person, Discriminatory jokes and language, Posting sexually explicit or violent material, Posting (or threatening to post) other people’s personally identifying information (“doxing”), Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms, Unwelcome sexual attention, Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior, Repeated harassment of others. In general, if someone asks you to stop, then stop.
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Try to understand why we disagree: Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. Remember that we’re different. Diversity contributes to the strength of our community, which is composed of people from a wide range of backgrounds. Different people have different perspectives on issues. Being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong. Don’t forget that it is human to err and blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere. Instead, focus on helping to resolve issues and learning from mistakes.
Diversity Statement
We encourage everyone to participate and are committed to building a community for all. Although we will fail at times, we seek to treat everyone both as fairly and equally as possible. Whenever a participant has made a mistake, we expect them to take responsibility for it. If someone has been harmed or offended, it is our responsibility to listen carefully and respectfully, and do our best to right the wrong.
Although this list cannot be exhaustive, we explicitly honor diversity in age, gender, gender identity or expression, culture, ethnicity, language, national origin, political beliefs, profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and technical ability. We will not tolerate discrimination based on any of the protected characteristics above, including participants with disabilities.
Reporting Issues
If you experience or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please report it by contacting the organisers - Bérénice, Malvika and Yo. (team@openlifesci.org).
To report an issue involving one of the members, please email one of the members individually (berenice@openlifesci.org, malvika@openlifesci.org, yo@openlifesci.org).
All reports will be handled with discretion. In your report please include:
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Your contact information.
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Names (real, nicknames, or pseudonyms) of any individuals involved. If there are additional witnesses, please include them as well. Your account of what occurred, and if you believe the incident is ongoing. If there is a publicly available record (e.g. a mailing list archive or a public IRC logger), please include a link.
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Any additional information that may be helpful.
After filing a report, a representative will contact you personally, review the incident, follow up with any additional questions, and make a decision as to how to respond. If the person who is harassing you is part of the response team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. If the complaint originates from a member of the response team, it will be handled by a different member of the response team. We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse.
Attribution & Acknowledgements
This code of conduct is based on the Open Code of Conduct from the TODOGroup.