BioFAIR Roadshow UCL

BioFAIR is a UKRI funded federated digital research infrastructure (£34million over 5 years), due to launch this summer and recently announced as a part of the BBSRC’s blueprint for bioscience infrastructure.

BioFAIR will develop and operate a federated digital research infrastructure connecting existing life sciences infrastructures which will be assembled largely through the integration of existing services, resources and knowledge.

The Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at UCL will be working with BioFAIR to help disseminate information about BioFAIR to UCL researchers and to help researchers interact with BioFAIR and thereby capture and mine their data in a FAIR manner, as requested by the funding agencies.

BioFAIR's focus will be on four core capabilities: data repositories, tool repositories, knowledge centre, and community centre. The objective of the project is to deliver a step change in ‘Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable’ (FAIR) research data management (RDM), providing end-to-end FAIR RDM & analysis capabilities along with the necessary support and training for UK researchers working in the life sciences.

The project will be community led and driven by the priorities of the UK life science researchers. As part of this BioFAIR have arranged this roadshow to reach out to every corner of the UK to engage with life science research communities during our pre-launch planning and design phase.

The UCL Roadshow workshop agenda will be as follows:

• 13:00 - 13:10 Arrive register coffee/introductions
• 13:10 - 13:40 Introduction to BioFAIR and the workshop - Gerry Reilly
• 13:40 - 14:00 Workshop breakout session 1
• 14:00 - 14:10 Round up from session 1
• 14:10 - 14:20 Break
• 14:20 - 14:40 Workshop breakout session 2
• 14:40 - 14:50 Round up from session 2
• 14:50 - 15:30 Presentations from Padraig Gleeson: "Sharing neuroscience data and models in a FAIR manner using Open Source Brain" and Jonathan Chubb "Imaging cell decision making using light sheet imaging"
• 15:30 - 15:45 Q&A and wrap up

Our host will be Christine Orengo

Speakers:

• Gerry Reilly, Interim Director for BioFAIR
• Padraig Gleeson, Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, Division of Biosciences
• Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology

We will be located in the Darwin Building, Classroom B15 - please kindly note entry to the Darwin Building Reception is off Malet Place (this is at the back of the Darwin Building) and not via Gower Street. Please find a link to UCL maps here.

Registration is free - refreshments will be provided.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Room B15 Darwin Building, Malet Place, London, United Kingdom