Tea time with AuthorAID: Empowering Research Excellence through Open Science

Teatime with AuthorAID is a monthly community event, where scholars from all over the world join (with their favourite variety of tea/drink), engage in informal conversation, extend their network and explore collaboration opportunities. Unlike a typical webinar, it thrives on informal and immersive discussions between participants and the host, as well as among participants themselves. In this session, especially targeted for early career researchers, we will be hosting an interactive networking session on the theme 'Empowering Research Excellence through Open Science'.

Research excellence is paramount in academic and scientific pursuits. However, traditional practices often limit progress by restricting access to knowledge, stifling collaboration, and hindering innovation. Open Science offers a transformative solution, promoting openness, transparency, and collaboration to accelerate discovery, foster global partnerships, and enhance research quality.

In this discussion, we'll explore Open Science principles and applications, examining benefits, challenges, and success stories to uncover its transformative power in empowering research excellence.

The host of the event is Emmanuel Adamolekun and Seun Olufemi.

Bio of the host:

Emmanuel Adamolekun: Emmanuel Adamolekun is a research assistant at Helix Biogen Institute and an Open Life Science (OLS) Mentorship Fellow, focusing on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) vaccine design using immunoinformatics. Under Dr. Elijah Oladipo's mentorship, he investigates Leishmania Thoi-specific proteins to develop multi-epitope vaccines targeting B and T cells. Emmanuel also serves as a Medical Laboratory Scientist at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital in Akure, Nigeria, blending clinical practice with research. He actively promotes health equity in underserved communities through public health campaigns and aspires to pursue postgraduate studies in genomics and infectious disease vaccine development.

Seun Olufemi: Seun, a biochemistry graduate from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, he is co-leading the Bioinformatics Outreach Nigeria (BON) project which aims to improve bioinformatics capacity using open science principles among early-career researchers, he has published ten peer-reviewed articles, and he currently serves as an OLS Resident Fellow.