Weekly Brief, 15 April 2019

Hub updates

The ELIXIR Board is taking place today and tomorrow in Bergen, Norway.

The full programme of the ELIXIR Bioinformatics Suppliers Forum is now online. The event will take place on 7 May 2019 in London, UK. The registration is still open!

Updates from Platforms

The ELIXIR Data Platform published a paper to present the collective usage and impact of ELIXIR Core Data Resources.

Applications are open for the second year of the PgCert in Biocuration at Cambridge University. The deadline is on 17 May, with the course starting in October 2019.

Updates from Nodes

Applications are open for two SIB courses:

ELIXIR France is organising the next ELIXIR Software Carpentry Workshop on 15-16 April at the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris, France.

Registrations are open for the Summer School - Bioinformatics for Biologists: An introduction to Data Exploration, Statistics and Reproducibility, on 1-5 July 2019, Cambridge, UK.

Registration is open for the Summer School Integrative X-omics analyses empowering personalized healthcare on 1-5 July 2019 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Registrations are open for the BioSB course Statistics for omics organised together with the Amsterdam UMC on 24-28 June2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Registration open for the course FAIR Data Stewardship - Digital data scholarship for wetlab scientists, 27-29 May, Niel, Belgium. This course is part of the Interreg-funded Helis Academy and organised by DTL/ELIXIR Netherlands.

Registrations are open for the Workshop on High-Content Imaging and Data Science for Virtual Screening and Drug Discovery, taking place in Bled, Slovenia, on 13-17 May 2019. The deadline for regular registration is April 30. Registration will still be open afterwards but with higher fees.

Applications open for ELIXIR Sweden (NBIS) courses:

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 SFI Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science (part of ELIXIR Ireland) is offering PhD fellowships in genomics data science.

The Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia (part of ELIXIR Portugal) is welcoming applications for a Research Fellowship within the project "Biodata.pt Infraestrutura Portuguesa de Dados Biolgicos.

The CNAG-CRG is looking for a Front-end developer to work on the RD-Connect Genome Phenome Analysis Platfor as part of the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases.

The CNAG-CRG is looking for a software engineer to participate in the development tasks of the RD-Connect Genome-Phenome Analysis Platform

IRB Barcelona seeks to recruit a Software Developer to join the lab of Dr.Nria Lpez-Bigas, Barcelona Biomedical Genomics Lab.

ELIXIR Luxembourg is looking for Research Associate in the field of clinical and translational medicine informatics.

Upcoming events

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.

ELIXIR events

15-16 April 2019 | Bergen, Norway
ELIXIR Board meeting

17-20 June 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR All Hands meeting