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We are excited to kick-off the second 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 52 members, who are the project leads of 32 diverse projects, have joined the second cohort of the Open Life Science mentoring program - OLS-2!
The mentees joining this program are Andréanne Proulx, Bailey Harrington, Bakary N’tji Diallo, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Boï Kone, Brenda Muthoni, Béatrice P.De Koninck, Camila Rangel Smith, Christina Ambrosi, Cooper Smout, Danny Garside, David Beavan, Dylan Bastiaans, Ekeoma Festus, Emma Karoune, Eugene de Beste, Eva Herbst, Georgia Aitkenhead, Harriet Natabona Mukhongo, Hilyatuz Zahroh, Ibrahim Ssali, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Jelioth Muthoni, Joel Hancock, Joyce Kao, Kate Simpson, Katharina Kloppenborg, Kendra Oudyk, Kevin Xu, Laura Carter, Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano, Markus Kirolos Youssef, Markus Löning, Muhammet Celik, Myreille Larouche, Neha Moopen, Paul Owoicho, Pauline Karega, Pauline Ligonie, Peter van Heusden, Pradeep Eranti, Sam Van Stroud, Samuel Burke, Sangram Sahu, Sebastian Eggert, Sophia Batchelor, Stefan Gaillard, Stephen Klusza, Tainá Rocha, Teresa Laguna, Valerie Parent, Wasifa Rahman. These individuals are based in 20 countries (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mali, Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States) where they will be leading their respective projects.
Topics for their projects include data-centric engineering, ethical research, data communication, developing community aspects of computational projects, enhancing lab automation, creating mentorship network, collaborative training delivery, open science education, online database for 3D modeling workflows, establishing disease-related preprints, applying machine learning practices, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding infections and diseases, curating land-use land-cover data, science campaigning, metagenomic pipeline, Galaxy, applying the FAIR principle in a new field, creating a reproducible environment and open hardware, enhancing accessibility in community and citizen science projects, fundraising and ensuring project sustainability.
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 36 mentors, Aidan Budd, Andrew Stewart, Anelda van der Walt, Anita Bröllochs, Anjali Mazumder, Arielle Bennett, Bruno Soares, Caleb Kibet, Dave Clements, David Selassie Opoku, Delphine Lariviere, Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Holger Dinkel, Ivo Jimenez, Jez Cope, Katharina Lauer, Lena Karvovskaya, Lilian Juma, Lorena Pantano, Luis Pedro Coelho, Mallory Freeberg, Malvika Sharan, Markus Löning, Martina Vilas, Meag Doherty, Mesfin Diro, Naomi Penfold, Patricia Herterich, Piraveen Gopalasingam, Raniere Silva, Renato Alves, Samuel Guay, Sarah Gibson, Sonika Tyagi, Yo Yehudi, Yvan Le Bras, based in 16 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States). 5 of them were participants and 13 mentors in the previous cohort (OLS-1). They will be supported by 65 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-2 here: https://we-are-ols.org//ols-2.
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.