This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.
For action
New The agenda for the SAB face-to-face meeting, taking place from 6-7 February, is now available on Google Drive.
Heads of Nodes wishing to attend the meeting, please be reminded to register via Eventbrite by Fri, 18 January at the latest.
For action
Ongoing Heads of Nodes are reminded to nominate two candidates to join the ELIXIR SAB to replace Dr Jrme Wojcik, Quartz Bio and Dr Juni Palmgren, Karolinska Institutet.
We would specifically encourage nominations in the areas of:
- Databases and data resources
- Technical aspects of tools development, cloud deployment and
secure data
- Bioinformatics beyond genomics
HoN are asked to submit nominations, including names and CVs, to Joana (joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org) by Fri, 18 January at the latest.
For information
The minutes of the HoN meeting from 12 December are now available on Google Drive. We invite you to provide comments to Joana. The minutes will be considered as approved as of Fri, 25 January.
The minutes of the confidential agenda items on the CDR Appeal Case as well as the Selection of RIR will be circulated separately to Heads of Nodes and Deputies who attended the meeting.
For information, please also find the INFRADEV-3 document, circulated to Heads of Nodes prior to Christmas, as agreed at the meeting. Following discussion at the HoN meeting in December, Heads of Nodes are asked to review the paper Leveraging European infrastructures to access one million human genomes by 2022. Please send any comments to Serena Scollen (serena.scollen@elixir-europe.org) by Fri, 25 January.
As requested, the list of observers to the EU Declaration on access 1M genomes (to the best of our knowledge) currently includes:
Denmark, Hungary, Norway, Belgium, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland.
If you have any questions please contact Serena Scollen (serena.scollen@elixir-europe.org).
Key dates and meetings
HoN Call: ExCo Selection Process
- 24 January 2019
HoN Call: ExCo Selection Process
- 1 February 2019
HoN Call: Selection of INFRADEV3 Pilots
- 4 February 2019
Heads of Nodes Teleconference
- 28 February 2019
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 15-16 April 2019, Bergen, Norway
Heads of Nodes meeting
- 13-14 May 2019, Woking (Heathrow), UK