Research Data Management in Life Sciences
General context
This course is jointly organized by Ghent University and ELIXIR Belgium. This in-depth course will help researchers to develop their knowledge and practical skills in handling and managing the research data they collect and use.
This course will guide the attendees through the key aspects on how to manage, document, store and safeguard research data well and how to plan and implement good data management in research projects in accordance to current best practices.
COVID-19 preparations:
This course will be held online, unless the University regulations allow us to have a physical training. In the latter case this training will be located at the KCGG - UZ Gent (Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Gent). Further communication will be provided to the registered participants.
Waiting list:
Please register for the waiting list if there are no tickets available at the moment. We regularly add people from the waiting list to the course manually.
Upon completion of this course, participants should have an understanding of what Research Data Management is, and why it is important in academic research. They should have an understanding of the FAIR data principles, and how they can make data more FAIR. They should be able to successfully manage all types of research data and to document both the research itself, as well as the data in a comprehensive way.
This course targets all researchers active in Life Sciences. There is no prior knowledge or programming skills needed.
Partners
Trainers
Alexander Botzki
Alexander Botzki is heading the Technology training unit at VIB, the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium. The main mission of this unit is providing technology training in domains of VIB Technologies, Bioinformatics & AI, Software Development, and Research Data Management. Between 2014 and 2022, he was head of the VIB Bioinformatics Core. From September 2009 to July 2014, he was responsible for the roll-out of E-Notebook (electronic lab notebook) to VIB's researchers within 75 research groups.
Before joining VIB, Alexander worked on various computational biology projects for Algonomics (bought by Lonza, 2008-2009) and DevGen (now Syngenta, from 2006-2008). During Alexander's PostDoc at Sanofi Aventis in Strasbourg, he executed various virtual screening campaigns on the compound selection of the merged enterprise. He received his doctoral degree with the group of Prof. Dr. Armin Buschauer (University of Regensburg, Germany) on 'Structure-based design of hyaluronidase inhibitors'.
Griet Den Herder
Program
Introduction to RDM & Data Lifecycle
Thomas Van de Velde (Data Stewards UGent)
RDM trends and requirements: Funder & journal policies
Paula Oset (Data Stewards UGent)
Break
Privacy and GDPR in the research life cycle
Lunch
DMP and DMPonline
Laura Standaert (Data Stewards UGent)
FAIRify your data: data documentation and metadata
Flora D'Anna (Data Stewards ELIXIR Belgium)
Break
Organizing your data: structure and versioning
Nele Pauwels (KCGG UGent)
Reusing existing data
Alexander Botzki (VIB & ELIXIR Belgium)
Manage your data & analysis
Creating and working with a reproducible data analysis environment. Tuur Muyldermans (VIB & ELIXIR Belgium)
Lunch
Share and publish your data: repositories and licenses
Alexander Botzki (VIB & ELIXIR Belgium)
Valorisation and Intellectual Property
Griet Den Herder (VIB)
Break
Data security and encryption
Jan Lammertyn (Data stewards UGent)