BioFAIR Roadshow University of Birmingham

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 - 15:40 Presentations from Ralf Weber, Karin Slater and Stephanie Thompson
• 15:40 - 15:50 Q&A and wrap up

Our host will be Ralf Weber.

Speakers:

• Gerry Reilly, Interim Director for BioFAIR.
• Ralf Weber, Director of Bioinformatics for the Phenome Centre Birmingham
• Karin Slater, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Semantics
• Stephanie Thompson, Researcher Engagement & Data Group Lead for Advanced Research Computing (or BEAR) at University of Birmingham.

We will be located in the seminar rooms 214/215 on the second floor of Elm House - please see FAQs for information on how to reach this venue.

This event is jointly hosted at the University of Birmingham by the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ), Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA), and Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI (IIDSAI).

Registration is free - refreshments will be provided.