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We are excited to kick-off the fifth round of Open Life Science with another incredible cohort of mentors, mentees, and experts. We are honored to bring together members of diverse identities and backgrounds who represent expertise from different domains of research, who are working to address a wide range of relevant questions in their field and are motivated to bring a culture change in their areas. Many of them are long-standing Open Scientists who aim to use this opportunity to apply open science and community-based principles in their projects through this program.
We are thrilled to announce that 71 members, who are the project leads of 34 diverse projects, have joined the fourth cohort of the Open Life Science mentoring program - OLS-5!
The mentees joining this program are Abraham Dabengwa, Achintya Rao, Adarsh Kalikadien, Agossou Bidossessi Emmanuel, Akanksha Chaudhari, Alessandra Candian, Alvaro Andre Vargas Aguilar, Andrea Kocsis, Anne Lee Steele, Ayesha Dunk, Biandri Joubert, Birgül Çolak-Al, Bridget Nea, Callum Mole, Camila Gómez, Carla Lancelotti, Cavin Mgawe, Celine Kerfant, Danae Carelis Davila Espinoza, Darwin Diaz, Eirini Botsari, Elisee Jafsia, Emma Karoune, Emmanuel Adamolekun, Esra Büşra Işık, Evelyn Greeves, Faruk Üstünel, Federico Cestares, Frédérique Belliard, Gareth Jones, Gemma Turon, Isil Poyraz Bilgin, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Javier Ruiz-Pérez, Jhon Anderson Pérez Silva, Jose Luis Villca Villegas, Juan José García-Granero, Juyeon Kim, Jyoti Bhogal, Kim Martin, Laura Ación, Lisanne Walma, Luke Hare, Lydia France, Malvika Sharan, Maria Andrea Gonzales Castillo, Maria Gabriela Musaubach, Mariangela Panniello, Nadia Odaliz Chamana Chura, Nelson Franco Condori Salluco, Nihan Sultan Milat, Nodira Ibrogimova, Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Piero Beraun, Robert Schreiber, Rodrigo Gallegos, Sabrina López, Sagarika Valluri, Sairaj R Dillikar, Sandra Mirella Larriega Cruz, Sarah Nietopski, Sitsofe Morgah, Sladjana Lukic, Stephane Fadanka, Umar Ahmad, Valentina Borghesani, Verónica Xhardez, Vicky Hellon, Victoria Dumas, Zachary Dunseth, Zarena Syrgak. These individuals are based in 20 countries (Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Cameroon, Canada, Ghana, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan) where they will be leading their respective projects.
Topics for their projects include AI, Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biohacking, Bioinformatics, Bladder Cancer, Buildings, Cancer, Carbon footprint, Collaboration, Community, Community Building, Computational Biology, Creating Pathway, DIY Bio, Data Science and AI education, Data Visualization, Diagnostics, Digital pathology, Digitalization, Education, Emotional/Physical/Nutritional diet for brain, Engagement, Environmental biotechnology, FAIR, Governance, Greenhouse gases, History of Science, Incentives to public and scientists, Next-generation sequencing, Non invasive diagnostics, Omics, Onboarding, Open Access, Open Data, Open Education, Open Infrastructure, Open Science, Open Source, Open science, Palaeoecology., Philosophy of Science, Phytolith, Python programming, R programming, RNA-Seq, Reproducibility, Research, Research Ethics, Rstudio, Students, Sustainabilty, Training, Transcriptomics, Turing Way, academia-industry partnership, academic, accessibility, artificial intelligence, astrobiology, autism, bioinformatics, biosignatures, building trust, chemical space, clinical neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, collaboration, communication, community, community building, community engagement, community management, community white papers, data, data analysis, data science, data sharing, data visualization, data-driven chemistry, database, diversity, ecophysiology, editorial community, educational resources, epistemic/linguistic, equity, ethics, forestry, free resources, game theory, genomics, global connectivity, homogeneous catalysis, inclusion, intersectoral collaboration, justice, knowledge graph, law, legal research, life evolution, meta-analysis, metadata, metal complexes, missing health data, models, modifying Code of Conduct, molecular assays, molecular diagnostics, molecular kit development, multilingual open science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, neuroscience, ontologies, open access, open and reprodicible data science, open education, open journals systems., open learning, open peer review, open publishing, open resource, open scholarship, open science, open source, open-source, peer-mentoring, qualitative research, quantitative research, repeatable science, reproducibility, research community, scholarly communication, software, student training, sustainability, training, training and education, transition, translation, treatment heterogeneity, web application, wood formation, xylogenesis.
Our project leads (aka mentees) have been paired with 1 or 2 mentors based on their specific requirements of expertise and interests along with time zones and language preferences. Our mentors are Open Science champions with previous experiences in training, mentoring, computing, and community skills. They are currently working in different professions in data science, education, citizen science, publishing, community building, software development, clinical studies, industries, scientific training, policymaking, IT services, and so on.
Additionally, we have an incredible experts’ community who will be delivering specialised talks during the cohort calls and will be available for our project leads for expert consultations upon request.
We welcome our 35 mentors, Alejandro Coca Castro, Alexander Martinez Mendez, Andres Sebastian Ayala Ruano, Anne Fouilloux, Anne Treasure, Arielle Bennett, Batool Almarzouq, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Burce Elbasan, Caleb Kibet, Deepak Unni, Diego Onna, Emma Karoune, Emmy Tsang, Esther Plomp, Fotis Psomopoulos, Georgia Aitkenhead, Gracielle Higino, Julien Colomb, Katharina Lauer, Lena Karvovskaya, Lisanna Paladin, Luis Pedro Coelho, Malvika Sharan, Mayya Sundukova, Meag Doherty, Michael Addy, Muhammet Celik, Patricia Herterich, Renato Alves, Sara El-Gebali, Sara Villa, Stephan Heunis, Stephen Klusza, Yo Yehudi, based in 18 countries (Argentina, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States). 8 of them were participants and 16 mentors in the previous cohort (OLS-4). They will be supported by 26 experts.
We are extremely grateful to them for their support and contributions to OLS and their impactful work in other open communities. They are committed to supporting their mentees in this program to help create a more open and fair-research, knowledge-sharing and inclusive culture within life science and beyond.
We begin our program this week with a mentoring training call and mentor-mentee introductions. Check out the complete schedule and plans for OLS-5 here: https://openlifesci.org//ols-5.
You can keep track of our program, the progress of our second cohort and future announcements by following our twitter profile @openlifesci or subscribe to our announcements list.
We invite new contributions to the program as a new issue on the GitHub repo or by email to the team.
Once again, let’s welcome our mentors, mentees and experts to this program!
We wish our cohort members all the best as they begin this journey with us.