The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy hosts a seminar series to highlight exemplars of data sharing and reuse on the second Friday of each month at noon ET. The monthly series highlights researchers who have taken existing data and found clever ways to reuse the data or generate new findings. A different NIH institute or center (IC) will also share its data science activities each month.
The seminar is open to the public and registration is required each month. Individuals who need interpreting services and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Janiya Peters at 301-670-4990. Requests should be made at least three days in advance of the event. A recording will be available on this page after each event.
July 12, 2024
Satra Ghosh, Ph.D.
Director, Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative
Principal Research Scientist, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Transformative Potential and Challenges of Open Data and Technologies in Neuroscience"
National Institute of Mental Health
June 14, 2024
Michael Schatz, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University
"BioDIGS: BioDiversity and Informatics for Genomics Scholars"
National Human Genome Research Institute
May 10, 2024
Ali Loveys, M.D., ABP-CI
Managing Director Healthcare, FI Consulting
Fiona Meng
Data Scientist, FI Consulting
"Laying the Foundation for AI-Ready Data"
April 12, 2024
Andrew Smith
Interim Director, ELIXIR, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory–
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
"ELIXIR: Working Together to Accelerate the Understanding of Life"
Office of Data Science Strategy
March 8, 2024
Kilian Pohl
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University
"Accelerating Neuroscience Discovery Using Shared Software and Data"
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
February 9, 2024
Alex VanHelene, B.S.
Clinical Research Assistant,
Rhode Island Hospital
Michael Rooney, M.D.
Radiation Oncology Resident,
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sanjay Mishra, Ph.D. M.S.
Research Program Manager,
Rhode Island Hospital
Coordinator of the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium
Jeremy L. Warner, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Medicine,
Brown University,
Director of the Research Coordination Center of the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium
"COVID-19 and Cancer: Catalyzing Collaboration"
National Cancer Institute
January 12, 2024
Michelle Hribar, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology,
Oregon Health & Science University,
School of Medicine
"AI in Medicine: Improving Access to Literature Data for Knowledge Discovery"
December 8, 2023
Joaquin M. Espinosa, Ph.D.
Executive Director,
Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome
Professor of Pharmacology,
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
"Being FAIR in the Pan-omics Era: Lessons From the INCLUDE Project"
October 13, 2023
Zhiyong Lu, Ph.D. FACMI
Senior Investigator
Deputy Director for Literature Search
National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
"AI in Medicine: Improving Access to Literature Data for Knowledge Discovery"
National Library of Medicine
September 8, 2023
Steven Kleinstein, Ph.D.
Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine
"Leveraging Shared Data for Systems Immunology: Signatures of Vaccination and Infection"
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
August 11, 2023
Ana Navas-Acien, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
"Environment, justice, and health: consortia and data sharing needs through a community lens"
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
July 14, 2023
Elizabeth DuPre, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
"Open Science Enables New Neuroscience: A call for community-driven methods development"
National Institute of Mental Health
June 9, 2023
Nara Sobreira, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University
"PhenoDB, a phenotypic and genotypic data sharing tool"
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
May 12, 2023
Avi Ma’ayan, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics
Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
"The Diabetes Data and Hypothesis Hub (D2H2) and the Playbook Partnership Workflow Builder (PPWB):
Bioinformatics Tools for Hypothesis Generation via Data Integration"
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
April 14, 2023
Valerie Schneider, Ph.D.
SeqPlus Program Head
Deputy Director for Sequence Offerings
National Center for Biotechnology Information
"The NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR): A new ecosystem facilitating reliable comparative genomics"
National Library of Medicine
March 10, 2023
Melissa Haendel, Ph.D., FACMI
Marsico Chair in Data Science
Chief Research Informatics Officer
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jakob Seidlitz, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Lifespan Brain Institute, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine
"2022 DataWorks! Grand Prize Winners: Innovations in Data Sharing and Reuse"
NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
February 10, 2023
Cecile Viboud, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist,
Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies
Fogarty International Center
"Big data for surveillance, and the power of collaborative hubs for disease modeling"
Fogarty International Center
January 13, 2023
Eric Deutsch, Ph.D., Principal Scientist,
Institute for Systems Biology
"The ProteomeXchange Consortium at 10 Years: Promoting FAIR Data for Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics"
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
December 9, 2022
Roger Mark, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor,
Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Tom Pollard, Ph.D., Research Scientist,
Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technical Director,
PhysioNet
"PhysioNet: A Quarter Century of Open Health Data"
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
October 14, 2022
Julia Lane , Ph.D., Professor,
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
"Data Search and Discovery: Building an Amazon.com for Data"
Office of Data Science Strategy
September 9, 2022
Caleb Kibet, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow,
Pwani University
"Making Open Science Practical in the Global South Through Grassroot Community Building"
Fogarty International Center
August 12, 2022
Stephany Duda, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics,
School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University
Judith Lewis, Ph.D., Lead Developer,
Harmonist Data Toolkit,
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
"Harmonist/IeDEA: Designing Consortium Tools for Collaboration and Data Sharing"
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Institute of Mental Health
July 8, 2022
Alan Hutson, Ph.D., M.A., Chair of Biostatics and Bioinformatics,
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Qian Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
"NCI Funded Coordinating Center Strategies and Tools for Promoting Data, Software and Model Sharing to the Scientific Community"
National Cancer Institute
June 10, 2022
Rosa Alcazar, Ph.D., Biology Instructor, Clovis Community College
"Creating a Just Genomic Data Science Community by Providing Resources at Community Colleges"
National Human Genome Research Institute
May 13, 2022
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, QTIM lab and the Center for Machine Learning at the Martinos Center
"Learning from Multi-Institutional Data – A Practical Guide"
National Eye Institute
April 8, 2022
Adam R. Ferguson, M.S., Ph.D., Director of Data Science, Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC)
Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Principal Investigator, San Francisco VA Healthcare System
"Data Sharing and Machine Intelligence for Translational CNS Injury Research"
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
March 11, 2022
Professor Carole Goble, CBE FREng FBCS CITP
Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK
Frederik Coppens, Ph.D.
Head of Node, ELIXIR Belgium
IT Manager, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
"RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit Built by the Community for the Community"
NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
February 11, 2022
Hunter Moseley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky
"Improving Deposition Quality, FAIRness, and Impact of Metabolomics"
Common Fund Program Office
December 10, 2021
Casey Greene, Ph.D., University of Colorado School of Medicine
"Open Data Can Power AI-based Approaches to Tackle Biomedical Challenges"
National Human Genome Research Institute
November 19, 2021
Alexander Ropelewski, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
"The Brain Image Library: A Resource for Sharing Microscopy Data"
National Institute of Mental Health
October 15, 2021
Karen E. Adolph, Ph.D., New York University
"Databrary: Secure and Ethical Sharing of Research Video as Data and Documentation"
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
September 10, 2021
Purvesh Khatri, Ph.D., Stanford University,
"Adventures of a Data Parasite: Accelerating Clinical Translation Using Heterogeneity in Public Data"
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
August 13, 2021
Arjun Krishnan, Ph.D., Michigan State University,
"Democratize Data-Driven Biology by Tackling Incomplete Data, Unstructured Metadata, and Hidden Curricula"
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
July 9, 2021
Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
"There’s No Easy Way Out: Making Data FAIR Requires Better Metadata. Information Technology Can Help."
National Library of Medicine
June 11, 2021
Lara Mangravite, Ph.D., Sage Bionetworks
“Diversifying the AD Target Pipeline: Data and Tool Sharing to Catalyze the Study of Understudied Drug Targets”
National Institute on Aging
May 14, 2021
Deanne M. Taylor, Ph.D., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute;
"Integrating Common Fund Program Datasets for Feature Selection and Machine Learning"
NIH Common Fund
Apr. 9, 2021
Yang Chai, D.D.S, Ph.D., University of Southern California
"FaceBase--A Data Sharing Resource to Support Dental and Craniofacial Research"
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Mar. 12, 2021
Alisa Manning, Ph.D., Massachussetts General Hospital
"Opportunities for NIH Cloud Interoperability Approaches to Improve Outcomes of Pediatric Diseases"
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Feb. 12, 2021
Russ Poldrack, Ph.D., Stanford University
“An Open Ecosystem for Data Sharing in Human Neuroscience"
National Institute on Drug Abuse
