Introducing myself

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Welcome @KarmjeetChauhan and welcome @Yathu

Make sure to reach out to the AWG leads and check your ‘CHAT’ for important new member info

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I’m Ryan :waving_hand: profile and GS your point-of-contact for questions as you become familiar with our AWG ‘Forum-Space’. To start orientation, first visit our “About” page which is quite important, with a lot of useful quick links: About - Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups

There are 11 AWGs. Next, check which ones you are part of (Plant AWG? AI/ML AWG? Hardware AWG? Microbes AWG? Multi-Omics AWG? etc…) Each AWG meets once per month. It is very important you attend that monthly meeting which you’d like to be active in. You can find which one you belong to in the AWG Group Member Hub, and depending which AWGs you belong to, you can find events in the Calendar

As part of this reach out to the Lead (sometimes referred to as Chair) of that AWG to get involved. Reach out via chat (like this message) or by email. In your message to them, mention you are a new AWG member and want to attend the next meeting, introduce yourself, get involved. These are really their meetings, and each AWG is its own community.

AI/ML – @lauren.sanders ; lmh.sanders@gmail.com

  • Meets 2nd Tues/mo, 10-11a PDT

ALSDA – @rtscott2001 ; ryan.t.scott@nasa.gov

  • Meets 3rd Tues/mo, 8-9:30a PT

Animal – @paula6 ; paula6@erau.edu

  • Meets 4th Wed/mo, 9-10:30a PT

Brain – @windymc & @nilufarali ; nilufarali@boisestate.edu & windymc@stanford.edu

  • Meeting time/day tbd – contact Windy & Niluar to learn more

Female Repro – @abegum ; abegum@usf.edu

  • Meets 4th Wed/mo, 12-1p PT

Human – @Dr.Overbey ; eoverbey@uaustin.org

  • Meets 1st Thurs/mo, 8-9a PT

Microbes – @daniela.bezdan ; bezdan.daniela@gmail.com

  • Meets 1st Wed/mo, 10-11a PT

Multi-Omics – beheshti@pitt.edu @AfshinBeheshti or @jessicadurbano & jessica94durbano@gmail.com

  • Meets 3rd Wed/mo, 8-9:30a PT

Plant – @dr.richard.barker ; dr.richard.barker@gmail.com

  • Meets twice:

    • 2nd Wed/mo, 8-9:30a PT

    • 4th Wed/mo, 12-1p PT

Hardware – @jessica.a.lee ; jessica.a.lee@nasa.gov

  • Last Tuesday of the month –9a-10a PT

RadLab – @kirill ; kirill.grigorev@bmsis.org

  • Contact Kirill on when that AWG meets

Let me know if any questions. Welcome!

To learn more about the data, the tools, the resources, and this AWG ‘open science for life in space’ ecosystem, here is a VERY useful pub to read: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1116

Here is a master table, with all AWGs and sub-group proejcts outlined and linked - its a great place to find all the topical threads, add comments, ask questions, say you’d like to join projects here, etc

For more, there are synced up YouTube vidoes here from an AWG all-hands event in March 2025. The post… AWG overview… AWG subroups.

There also in an AWG Charter which we except all AWG members to read and know. It also includes a section with an example on how to recognize your AWG membership publicly.

Here is a welcome post for orientation of new members

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