Date: 18 March 2021
Time: 3:00 PM GMT / 4:00 PM CET
Materials: Slides - How to make training FAIR
Location: Online
Contact: Mamana Mbiyavanga & Marta Lloret Llinares
Overview
The CINECA "How FAIR are you" webinar series continues with a presentation by Sarah Morgan and Anna Swan.
There is a wealth of training content developed and delivered across the globe each year, there will be many similar sessions on similar topics all delivered to similar audiences. At the same time, there will be trainers looking for inspiration and ideas on how to approach new topics or on new ways to teach old topics; as well as trainees looking for materials to further their own knowledge. Many trainers (or lecturers/educators etc) do not share their materials, or if materials are shared they are not easily found or re-used by others.
During this webinar, we will give you some tips and suggestions on how you can make more of the training materials you produce and encourage others to do the same. FAIR is not just for data - we can make our training materials FAIR too. Join us to find out the benefits of sharing your FAIR materials and some simple ways you can make it easy for others to use your materials in their teaching, or as aids for individuals to learn more.
The “How FAIR are you” webinar series and hackathon aim at increasing and facilitating the uptake of FAIR approaches into software, training materials and cohort data, to facilitate responsible and ethical data and resource sharing and implementation of federated applications for data analysis.
The CINECA webinar series aims to discuss ways to address common challenges and share best practices in the field of cohort data analysis, as well as distribute CINECA project results. All CINECA webinars include an audience Q&A session during which attendees can ask questions and make suggestions. Please note that all webinars are recorded and available for posterior viewing.
About the speakers
Anna Swan is a Scientific Training Officer (e-learning) at EMBL-EBI. She has a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Nottingham, where she focused on the bioinformatic identification of biomarkers of osteoarthritis. Following her PhD, Anna worked as a medical writer, spanning many therapeutic areas and working both on promotional and educational content for clinicians. Returning to bioinformatics, Anna worked as a data wrangler for the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium at the project's data coordination centre based in the Medical Research Council's Harwell Institute. Anna joined the Training Team at EMBL-EBI in March 2019.
Sarah Morgan is the Scientific Training Coordinator at EMBL-EBI. Sarah has a BSc and MSc in Biomedical Sciences, followed by a PhD from Cranfield University. Over a 10 year academic career her research has focused on tumour biomarker characterisation and cell-surface interaction. Beyond research she took an active role in the provision of postgraduate taught courses for the University as Lecturer in Molecular Medicine, leading the development and direction of a number of MSc Courses including the MSc in Translational Medicine, the MSc in Molecular Medicine, and more recently acting as director for the MSc Programmes in Advanced Biosciences. She has lectured on a variety of biomedical techniques and topics, including ethics and governance of research. Sarah joined the EBI in 2013 initially as training programme manager, where she is responsible for running the external user training programme, responsible for all on-site, off-site and online courses. She is additionally the Elixir training co-ordinator for the EMBL-EBI node and course director for the PgCert in Biocuration at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.
About CINECA
The CINECA (Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa) project aims to develop a federated cloud enabled infrastructure to make population scale genomic and biomolecular data accessible across international borders, to accelerate research, and improve the health of individuals across continents. CINECA will leverage international investment in human cohort studies from Europe, Canada, and Africa to deliver a paradigm shift of federated research and clinical applications. The CINECA consortium will create one of the largest cross-continental implementations of human genetic and phenotypic data federation and interoperability with a focus on common (complex) disease, one of the world’s most significant health burdens. CINECA has assembled a virtual cohort of 1.4M individuals from population, longitudinal and disease studies. Federated analyses will deliver new scientific knowledge, harmonisation strategies and the necessary ELSI framework supporting data exchange across legal jurisdictions enabling federated analyses in the cloud. CINECA will provide a template to achieve virtual longitudinal and disease specific cohorts of millions of samples, to advance benefits to patients. It will leverage partner membership of standards and infrastructures like the Global Alliance for Global Health, BBMRI, ELIXIR, and EOSC driving the state of the art in standards development, technical implementation and FAIR data.