Hub updates
Save the date! The ELIXIR EXCELERATE - All Hands meeting will take place from 17-20 June 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Registration for the event will open 1 February 2019.
Take part in a short online survey to learn about your opinion on the ELIXIR Staff Exchange Programme. The deadline is 15 October 2018. Thank you!
Updates from Platforms
Registration is still open for the course on 'Adopting Open Source Software FAIR Practices' at the NETTAB 4OSS Satellite workshop taking place on 22 October 2018. The goal is to introduce the participants to the training materials developed to teach researchers and developers how to implement 4OSS practices in their research software.
Updates from Nodes
SIB is organising a Symposium on Computational Structural Biology celebrating 25 years of SWISS-MODEL in Basel, Switzerland, on 18 October. Registration is currently open.
With stakeholders from academia, industry, funding agencies, standards organisations, RDM providers & publishers the FAIRsharing team (ELIXIR-UK, Oxford) presents its mission: An evaluation of standards, repositories and data policy landscape, along with recommendations for consumers and providers of these resources.
Registrations are open for the SIB course on Introduction to RNA-Seq, in Basel (Switzerland), on 19-20 November 2018.
Registrations are open for the ELIXIR-Carpentries Instructor Training in Heidelberg, Germany on 8-9 October 2018.
Registrations are open for the ELIXIR-Carpentries Genomics Data Carpentry event in Oeiras, Portugal, 15-16 October 2018.
Registrations are open for the ELIXIR-Carpentries Data Carpentry event in Tartu, Estonia, 19-20 November 2018.
Job board
The Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is currently looking for an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
ELIXIR France (IFB) is looking to hire a candidate to work on Bioinformatics resource interoperability development.
ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two system developers with operational responsibility, based at Uppsala University.
The ELIXIR Core Data Resource, CATH, is seeking to hire a 3 years Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on protocols for using protein structural data to link sequence with function.
ELIXIR is offering an internship position relating to Beacon. The candidate will support the ELIXIR Beacon implementation study and the Beacon activities driven by the Human Genomics and Translational Data Services at the ELIXIR Hub.
The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.
The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
Joint Technical Coordinators & Training Coordinators meeting
3-5 October 2018 | Basel, Switzerland
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Annual meeting
15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology
19 October | Basel, Switzerland
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event
12 December | Brussels, Belgium
HoN meeting