Open Science Champion

Christine (Chrissy) Weber-Schmidt, a scientific project manager on Team Surmeier, is recognized as an Open Science Champion for presenting the Open Science Workflow she developed for her team to fellow scientific project managers. Chrissy’s workflow has enabled Team Surmeier to preprint manuscripts and openly share lab resources consistently, while her presentation empowered incoming CRN scientific project managers to develop strategies to implement open science practices within their own teams.

Ines Rodrigues-Vaz, PhD, a research scientist on Team Surmeier, is recognized as an Open Science Champion for publicly sharing over 30 TB of histology, behavioral, and in vivo imaging data in discipline-specific repositories, generating protocols, and ensuring the accuracy of shared resources.

Elena Coccia, PhD, a postdoc on Team Vangheluwe, is recognized as an Open Science Champion for being highly responsive in ensuring her recent preprint was compliant with ASAP’s Open Science Policy. Elena responded to each compliance report in under three weeks and provided clear, itemized responses to ensure her manuscript became compliant quickly and seamlessly.

Kaelyn Long, a research associate on Team Microbiome Analytics Core (MAC), has been a recognizable contributor to open science in Parkinson's disease research. Notably, Kaelyn was highly collaborative and responsive in organizing metagenomic data submissions, a data type only recently accepted into the CRN Cloud. Their efforts established a standard that will aid the team in ensuring the reproducibility of future metagenomic research.