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We cordially invite you to join the Women in HPC @ SDSC’s Professional Speaker series - with Dr. Anita Bandrowski!
Dr. Bandrowski is trained as a bench neurophysiologist, elucidating physiological mechanisms of learning and epilepsy. However, soon after postdoc, Dr. Bandrowski began to work with data, starting with the annotation of the human genome for Celera Inc. Dr. Bandrowski moved to neuroinformatics with the award to UCSD's FAIR Data Informatics Laboratory of the Neuroscience Information Framework by the NIH's Blueprint for Neuroscience. The goal of this project was to create a comprehensive list of databases for neuroscience and to federate search across as many of these databases as possible. The framework grew to the most comprehensive search system for neuroscience data on the web. This broad overview of the data landscape highlighted the need to align and structure data and dearth of reagent information, especially how reagents and tools are cited in the scientific literature.
The process of data curation is the structuring and aligning of data to meet the needs of some downstream group, mechanism, or database. Dr. Bandrowski's work was initially to structure data into a particular format, to meet the needs of the PANTHER database, however, her role moved to creating data structures that are accessible to multiple systems, or FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable); leading interdisciplinary teams to create community standards, and structuring data into formats that are accessible to artificial intelligence systems.
To address reagent underreporting issues, Dr. Bandrowski serves as the lead for the Research Resource Identification, RRID, Initiative, a group dedicated to transforming scholarly communication, which has recently become a non-profit organization. RRIDs are unique identifiers for Key Biological Resources such as antibodies, model organisms, cell lines and other tools, and are aggregated by our group from community databases and requested from authors in participating journals.
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WHPC Chapter @ SDSC
Mission
For 40 years, SDSC has stewarded its national reputation as an innovator and leader in high-performance, data-intensive computing and cyberinfrastructure. Many women professionals have been trailblazers in their academic and research spaces and have guided other women professionals in their chosen careers. As a WHPC Chapter at SDSC, we foster a supportive culture. This official mechanism is designed to support further women professionals, students and faculty engaged in using or working on HPC resources, data solutions, science gateways and other academic computing resources. We aim to extend our commitment to inclusivity by actively supporting members from minority-serving and Hispanic-serving institutions.
Goals
- Share career experience from women professionals and allies at UC San Diego, SDSC, and other collaborative institutions in southern California with women early-career professionals, students, faculty and allies via networking events and activities
- Provide professional development program opportunities via training programs and activities hosted by SDSC projects
- Support students, faculty and early/new career professionals to attend conferences, workshops and other professional development opportunities.
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Are you a woman professional, faculty or student? Are you an ally of Women in HPC?
If so, join us!
We welcome all professionals, faculty and students who work with high-performance computing resources and academic cyberinfrastructure or support those who use these resources.
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WHPC Mission
To promote, build and leverage a diverse and inclusive HPC workforce by enabling and energizing those in the HPC community to increase the participation of women members and highlight their contributions to the success of supercomputing. To ensure that women professionals are treated fairly and have equal opportunities to succeed in their chosen HPC career. To ensure everyone understands the benefits of promoting and achieving inclusivity.