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SUMMARY:Open Access across scales – from data to software\, hardware and
  ideas
DTSTART:20190327T121500
DTEND:20190327T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Pavel Tomancak\nThe EPFL Open Science initiative invites you t
 o this presentation by Pavel Tomancak\, senior group leader at the Max P
 lanck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresde
 n\, Germany.\n\nABSTRACT\nScience is a collective endeavor and no matter w
 hat\, we always stand on the shoulders of giants. Therefore\, by definitio
 n\, sharing everything scientific openly across the scientific community i
 s paramount to progress. This obvious truth has been de-emphasized in the 
 last decades of the 20th century as the scientific competition intensified
 . The Open Access (OA) movement emerged to partially remedy the situation.
  Pavel Tomancak will discuss his personal experiences with pushing OA age
 nda in various areas of scientific process including data\, software\, har
 dware\, publications and institute operational models. Successes as well a
 s failures will be highlighted\, hopefully providing some inspiration for 
 those who would like to try this at home.\n\nThe emphasis on open access i
 n Pavel's career resulted in establishment of major resources such as Fiji
  and OpenSPIM.\n\nFiji (aka "Fiji Is Just ImageJ") is an open source ima
 ge processing package based on ImageJ. Its main purpose is to provide a di
 stribution of ImageJ with many bundled plugins. It was first presented to 
 the ImageJ community in 2008. The original paper describing the core softw
 are project was published in 2012 and has now gathered over 12\,000 citati
 ons.\n\nOpenSPIM is an Open Access platform for applying and enhancing Sel
 ective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM). As stated on their website\, 
 the researchers behind the initiative "hope that OpenSPIM in its radical o
 penness will demonstrate that the benefits brought to science by the Open 
 Source approach apply equally well to hardware." In particular\, it is de
 signed to be as accessible as possible:\n\n	detailed\, easy-to-follow buil
 d instructions\n	off-the-shelf components and 3D-printed parts\n	Modular a
 nd extensible design\n	completely open blueprints\n	completely Open Source
 \n\n\nBIO\nPavel Tomancak studied Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Ma
 saryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic. He then did his PhD at the Euro
 pean Molecular Biology Laboratory in the field of Drosophila developmental
  genetics. During his post-doctoral time at the University of California i
 n Berkeley at the laboratory of Gerald M. Rubin\, he established image-bas
 ed genome scale resources for patterns of gene expression in Drosophila em
 bryos. Since 2005 he leads an independent research group at the Max Planck
  Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden whe
 re he became senior research group leader in 2013. His laboratory continu
 es to study patterns of gene expression during development by combining mo
 lecular\, imaging and image analysis techniques. The group has lead a sign
 ificant technological development aiming towards more complete quantitativ
 e description of gene expression patterns using light sheet microscopy. Th
 e Tomancak lab is expanding the systematic analysis of gene expression pat
 terns to other Drosophila tissues and employing the comparative approach i
 n other Drosophilids and invertebrate species.
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