BioFAIR Roadshow Cardiff University

BioFAIR is a UKRI funded federated digital research infrastructure (£34million over 5 years), due to launch this summer. 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.

BioFAIR is part of the recently announced BBSRC’s blueprint for bioscience infrastructure.

BioFAIR's focus will be on four core capabilities: data commons, method commons, 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 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 from 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 Edward Parkinson, Robert Andrews and Steffan Adams
• 15:30 - 15:45 Q&A and wrap up

Our host will be Robert Andrews

Speakers:

• Gerry Reilly, Interim Director for BioFAIR.
• Edward Parkinson, Research student, School of Computer Science and Informatics
• Robert Andrews, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Systems Immunity Research Institute
• Steffan Adams, Team Leader, Advanced Research Computing at Cardiff (ARCCA)

We will be located in the Sbarc event space, please see FAQs for further venue details.

Registration is free - refreshments will be provided.