Hub updates
This is the last ELIXIR Weekly Brief in 2017; we'll be back on 8 January 2018. We would like to thank you for your hard work in 2017 and wish you all the very best in 2018. Happy Holiday season!
The last webinar in 2017 will take place this Wednesday, 20 December at 15.00 CET. Paul Kersey will talk about the development of a distributed model for Ensembl.
The 10th E-Rare-3 Call for Proposals 2018 Transnational research projects on hypothesis-driven use of multi-omic integrated approaches for discovery of disease causes and/or functional validation in the context of rare diseases was launched on 7 December 2017.
Updates from Platforms
The ELIXIR Training Platform is organising two courses:
- Data processing with R tidyverse, 19-22 February 2018, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- BioSB/ELIXIR-NL course: Managing and Integrating Life Science Information (5th edition): Approaches using Linked Data and Semantics, 22-26 January 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ELIXIR Compute Platform face to face
Registration closes on 8 January for the ELIXIR Compute Platform face to face meeting on January 18-19 in Heidelberg. The agenda and registration is available here.
Updates from Nodes
Rothamsted Research (part of ELIXIR UK) is hosting 14th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics on 13-15 June 2018, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK. The Call for papers is now open, the deadline is on 2 March 2018. VIB (part of ELIXIR Belgium) is organising a conference Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (2nd edition) on 8-9 March 2018 in Leuven, Belgium. The Call for Abstract is open until 11 January, the registration until 22 February. The latest SIB newsletter brings stories about the Future of biocuration, Progress in the Swiss Personalized Health Initiative, Latest research on venerable trees and diabetes and more.
Job board
Two new posts are now open at the ELIXIR Hub in Hinxton: ELIXIR External Relations Officer and ELIXIR Industry Officer. The External Relations Officer will support ELIXIR's positioning with national and European funders and policy-makers; the Industry Officer with develop and implement ELIXIR Industry strategy, and is a replacement for current post-holder Pablo Roman, who will move to pastures new in 2018.
Oxford e-Research Centre (part of ELIXIR UK) is recruiting two Research Software & Knowledge Engineers to work in Susanna A Sansone's team on infrastructure projects to deliver FAIR data and digital assets.
ELIXIR Norway seeks a Senior Engineer/Chief Engineer to develop and maintain software and systems for the analysis and sharing of sensitive biomedical data. The role will support the 4 Nordic ELIXIR nodes and Tryggve2
And finally, ELIXIR Norway are advertising a newly established and permanent Administrative Coordinator position at the Department of Informatics within the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), University of Bergen.
ELIXIR UK seeks a Training Impact Co-ordinator based at The Bioinformatics Training Facility, University of Cambridge.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
20 December 2017 | Online
ELIXIR Webinar: Improvements to Ensembl
1-2 February 2017 | Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board meeting
24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting 2017 ELIXIR - Hub
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