Hub Updates
ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board held its annual meeting last week in Hinxton. The agenda included review of the EMBL-EBI Node and the national Nodes in Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Switzerland; strategy for the development of ELIXIR Communities and discussion around ELIXIRs strategy and response towards the declaration of sharing 1 M European genomes.
Updates from Nodes
The call for nominations for SIB Awards is now open. There are three categories
- SIB Early Career Bioinformatician Award (International)
- SIB Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award (National)
- SIB Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award (International)
The awards will be presented during SIBs 14th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference on 9-12 September 2019.
The call for Workshops and Tutorials for the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, organized by the SIB in September 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, is closing soon. Submit your proposals before this Wednesday 13 February.
The Academy of Finland awarded 2 million euros to ELIXIR Finland for 2019-2023. Read the new on the CSC website (in Finnish).
The genomics core facility of cole normale suprieure in Paris is organising a half-day meeting "20 years of genomics past and future directions" on 28 March 2019.
The Netherlands X-omics initiative organizes a X-omics festival for researchers in different omics fields. The agenda will feature plenary sessions and various interactive sessions (soapbox session, meet & greet, live Q&A and technology demonstrations). The registration is now open!
Registration is now open for the first European CarpentryConnect conference in Manchester, UK, on 25-27 June 2019, organised by the Sustainable Software Institute in affiliation with The Carpentries and in collaboration with Manchester's Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research. Call for proposals is still open, submit an abstract or your suggestions by 1 March 2019.
ELIXIR UK made a major contribution to the Final report of the Open Research Data Task Force, an overview of open research data policy and infrastructure landscape in UK.
Job board
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
The Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Crdoba (IMIBIC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Bioinformatician to optimize the use of the available technological resources and computational infrastructure of IMIBIC.
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG, part of ELIXIR Spain) is currently looking to fill the Postdoctoral Position on Human Genomics Data. The successful candidate will co-load the curation and enrichment of EGA metadata and raw data in a context of HPC and Big Data.
The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) is seeking experienced Computational Scientist for the Prostate Cancer Clinical Research Unit to work in projects involving the molecular characterisation of DNA deficient prostate cancer as well as clinical trials in this disease.
SIB (ELIXIR Switzerland) in collaboration with sciCORE - the scientific computing center of the University of Basel are looking for Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist to support training and research services.
ELIXIR Belgium is opening a couple of positions, all based in Gent at the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB):
- ELIXIR Data Steward
- ELIXIR Open Science Community Manager
- ELIXIR Scientific Cloud Coordinator
- Software developer cloud data processing
- ELIXIR Software developer data management tools
- ELIXIR Bioinformatics Trainer
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXI Spain) is looking for a highly motivated Research Engineer to join the Computational Genomics group.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Innovation and SME event: Genomics and Associated Data in National Healthcare Initiatives
15-16 April 2019 | Bergen, Norway
ELIXIR Board meeting
17-20 June 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR All Hands meeting