SPARCing a Conversation About FAIR Data Sharing (Virtual Webinar)

Dr. Horn is a Professor of Medicine and a neuroscientist. His primary research focus is the neurobiology of vagus nerve signaling in health and disease; and, more generally, the role of gut-brain communication in homeostasis. Numerous medical treatments and diseases affect gut-brain interactions to elicit nausea and emesis, reduce food intake, induce inflammatory responses, and modulate pain; the laboratory conducts studies on the impact of cytotoxic chemotherapy agents, surgical drugs (anesthesia and analgesics), and chronic conditions (e.g., cancer) on these responses; this line of research has the long-term goal of developing treatments to decrease symptom burden and improve quality of life for patients.

Dr. Patel completed his undergraduate studies in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering in his home country, France, before joining UC Berkeley in 2011 through the MS/PhD program in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently the PI on an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he is leading the development of a software called SODA (Software for Organizing Data Automatically). This cross-platform desktop software is intended to simplify data organization, curation, and submission according to the FAIR SPARC data standards by providing an intuitive user interface and automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

Dr. Rajwa is a Research Associate Professor of Computational Life Sciences in the Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue University where he conducts studies on the technologies of high-content imaging, biological image analysis, biological pattern recognition, and applications of statistical machine learning in cell biology, neuroscience and agriculture. Bartek is an Associate Editor of Cytometry Part A (the official journal of ISAC). His research interest focuses specifically on computational methods for quantitatively describing cellular phenotypes using single-cell analysis approaches. His studies’ long-term goal is the integration of “-omics” information to define, classify, and predict phenotypic manifestations of an interplay between external perturbants (drugs, pathogens, toxins, etc.) and gene products.

Dr. Tappan is a developmental neuroscientist with a keen interest in stereology and other methods of quantification. At MBF Bioscience, she serves as the Scientific Director, leading research efforts through NIH, DoD and other funding sources. Her passion is identifying practical solutions to biomedical analysis needs that balance the essential requirement of reproducibility as well as person-hour effort.