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We are excited to kick-off the third 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 66 members, who are the project leads of 37 diverse projects, have joined the third cohort of the Open Life Science mentoring program - OLS-3!
The mentees joining this program are Abdulelah Al Mesfer, Afzal Ansari, Aida Mehonic, Alexander Martinez Mendez, Ali Humayun, Alireza Khanteymoori, Annalee Sekulic, Anshika Sah, António Sousa, Arvinpreet Kaur, Ashutosh Tiwari, Batool Almarzouq, Carla Lancelotti, Carly Monks, Chiara Damiani, Dario Pescini, Didik Utomo, Emma Lawrence, Fabienne Lucas, Florian Heyl, Grégory Hammad, Haridimos Kondylakis, Harpreet Singh, Hilyatuz Zahroh, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Irene Ramos, Iris San Pedro, Javier Ruiz Pérez, Jennifer Miller, Jessica Sims, John Ogunsola, Juan José García-Granero, Katharina Kloppenborg, Lomax Boyd, Manuel Spitschan, Marco Madella, Marta Marin, Martina Vilas, Marzia Di Filippo, Masako Kaufmann, Mehak Chopra, Michal Javornik, Michal Růžička, Mishka Nemes, Mohan Gupta, Muhammet Celik, Nihan Sultan Milat, Olayile Ejekwu, Paolo Pedaletti, Prakriti Karki, Prash Suravajhala, Reina Camacho Toro, Robandeep Kaur, Robin Lewando, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Santi Rello Varona, Sarah Gibson, Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Simon Duerr, Stelios Sfakianakis, Steven Burgess, Teresa Müller, Ujwal Shrestha, William Jackson, Zdenka Dudova, Zenita Milla Luthfiya. These individuals are based in 22 countries (Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States) where they will be leading their respective projects.
Topics for their projects include AI, AI trends, ASG, Computational research methods, Corpus, DNA sequencing, Data Science, Galaxy, Language resources, Low-resources, Machine Learning, Metabolism, Open Data, Pca, Reproducible research practices, Research software, Systems Biology, community, data science, infrastructure, metagenomics, open infrastructure, open source code, quantitative Life Science, research application, stakeholder engagement, technology, training, AI-assisted peer-review, Australian archaeology, Best practices’ Toolkits, Bioactivity, Biobanking, Bioprocesses, Box plot, COVID19, Community, Community Enhancement, Croatia, DIY, Data science training, Diabetes, Diaspora, FAIR, Frequency plot, Gut microbiome, Health Research Institutes, IC50, Indigenous Knowledge, Jupyter notebooks, Kinetic modelling, Linkage disequilibrium, Lipinski’s rule, Makerspace, Mann-Whitney test, Microbial growth, Natural Language Processing, Network of Open Science Ambassadors, Obesity, Open Science implementation, Open Source, Open data, Open educational content, Open science, Open science training, Prostate Cancer, Reproducibility, Robotics, SARS coronavirus 3C-like proteinase, Saudi Arabia, Scatter plot, Synthetic Biology, actigraphy, actimetry, agrobiodiversity, algorithm maintainer, archaeology, bioinformatics, biospecimens, chronobiology, circadian rhythms, citizen science, citizens science, codeowner, community building, conferences, data schemas, data sharing, data visualization, database, document, documentation, education, empirical legal research, experimental methods, flow cytometry, generational memory, geography, geology, geomorphology, historical, interconnectedness, interdependence, internalize openess, landscape, mentorship, metabarcoding, metadata, microfossils, microscopy, molecular biology, oer, online, online research, open access, open data, open educational resource, open notebook science, open resource, open science, open science workflow, open-collaborative, open-source, optimization, pIC50, palaeobotany, palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment, palynology, parameter estimation, participant perspective, participatory design, peer-production, peer-review, pendown, phytolith research, pleiotropy, postdoc, poster session, preprints, public, public policy, publishing, python pipeline, record, reproducibility, reproducible, research, research quality defects, rest-activity cycles, rigor, samples, sktime, sleep research, strategy, synthetic biology, systematic review, tool, value of OLS, video, village, virtual, virtual environments.
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 34 mentors, Anelda van der Walt, Anna Krystalli, Beth Duckles, Bruno Soares, Bérénice Batut, Emily Lescak, Emma Karoune, Esther Plomp, Fotis Psomopoulos, Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Harpreet Singh, Iratxe Puebla, Jez Cope, Joyce Kao, Kate Simpson, Laura Ación, Laura Carter, Louise Bezuidenhout, Mallory Freeberg, Malvika Sharan, Meag Doherty, Melissa Burke, Michael Landi, Piraveen Gopalasingam, Prash Suravajhala, Renato Alves, Sam Haynes, Sarah Gibson, Sonika Tyagi, Stephen Klusza, Teresa Laguna, Toby Hodges, Yo Yehudi, Yvan Le Bras, based in 14 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Kenya, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States). 6 of them were participants and 18 mentors in the previous cohort (OLS-2). They will be supported by 63 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-3 here: https://openlifesci.org//ols-3.
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.