Open Science Office Hours Special Lecture

We do this by sharing and curating open-science resources, facilitating discussion, and offering individual assistance. A different Open Science theme is chosen every month. Through this mechanism we hope to make OSOH participants and followers discover new facets of Open Science that they might not have encountered before. Every month we welcome an expert on that theme, available for Office Hours timeslots throughout the month.

Open Science Office Hours (OSOH) is an initiative of the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, supported by the McConnell Foundation.

Info: Joyce is a third-year medical student at McGill who discovered her love for the Brain during her Neurology block in medical school. Her research interest lies in scientific education, and her project aims to promote awareness around white matter diseases as well as to give prospective students the image skills necessary to interpret them on MRI.
In her free time, Joyce enjoys writing fiction, running around the canal, painting and sharing recipes with friends! She also spends a lot of time losing at Mario Kart, though that’s less enjoyable.

Info: Cecilia Rocha is a Senior Research Associate with experience in brain development. Cecilia has a master’s in Molecular Biology by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and obtained her PhD in Cellular Biology working on cytoskeletal alterations at the Institute Curie, France. After her postdoc working on neuronal cytoskeleton and development, Cecilia started working at the Neuro EDDU where she has been for the past 6 years developing iPSC-derived 2D and 3D neuronal models to study the molecular basis of neurological diseases and testing targets to help identify potential therapies.

Info: Andre is an open science advocate and innovator in the field of scientific instrumentation. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Tübingen and is a Scientific Officer and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Open Science at the University of Sussex. He’s a visiting professor at the Yobe State University in Nigeria, and volunteers at TReND in Africa (TIA). He is known for his work in developing open science hardware (OSH) in neuroscience. His projects include the development visual stimulators, microscopy systems, and behavioural tools. He founded the Open Neuroscience initiative, a community driven, curated repository of open source neuroscience projects. As a TIA Open Science coordinator, Andre has organized workshops and courses to promote OSH in resource-limited settings held in 8 African countries, hosting 200+ participants. Andre's work has been recognized with awards, including the Mozilla Open Science Fellows and the Wikimedia Foundation “FreiesWissen” Felloship

Info: Cecilia is a neuroscientist dedicated to disseminating open source technology. She leads the Training, Support and Outreach Scientific Team at Open Ephys, a company that develops, produces and distributes open-source tools for neuroscience. Since getting involved in this field in 2020, she has participated in numerous workshops, outreach events, and advanced training courses, and has organized the Electrophysiology Acquisition NeuroKit Course. Her talks and course modules highlight open source hardware and software for electrophysiology, neuronal imaging, and behavioral acquisition and control in freely moving animals. Acting as a link between developers and users, Cecilia strives to demystify technical concepts and listen to community needs to contribute back to open-source projects. She focuses on spreading knowledge inclusively and accessibly—particularly to new users and across language barriers—through hands-on, interactive activities, in the hope of empowering researchers with...

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Neuro. Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, 3801 Rue University, Montréal, Canada