Weekly Brief, 15 April 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR is looking for a Science Officer

Closing date: 12 May 2024

ELIXIR is seeking an experienced life scientist with wide interests in the technologies of the biological sciences and a good understanding of Open Science and FAIR. This job position will work with the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform and the ELIXIR Communities to ensure the delivery of ELIXIR and its impact across European life science.

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Recommended reads

Genomic and epidemiologic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the pandemic period: Sequencing network of the Lazio Region, Italy

A BY-COVID paper

Monitoring the circulating strains via NGS has proven to be crucial for the early identification of new emerging variants and the study of the genomic evolution and transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The Lazio region has created a sequencing laboratory network that works in synergy with the reference center for epidemiological surveillance to monitor the circulation of SARS-CoV-2. The model of the sequencing network developed in the Lazio region proved to be a useful tool for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and to support public health measures for epidemic containment.


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An international consensus on effective, inclusive, and career-spanning short-format training in the life sciences and beyond

An ELIXIR-SE paper

This paper describes the project that resulted in a consensus set of 14 actionable recommendations to systematically strengthen short-format training (SFT). A diverse international group of 30 experts in education, accessibility, and life sciences came together from 10 countries to develop recommendations that can help strengthen SFT globally. The authors described how the Bicycle Principles and recommendations are consistent with educational change theories and can overcome systemic barriers to delivering consistently effective, inclusive, and career-spanning SFT.

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Updates from Nodes

Metabolomics approaches for One Health

30 - 31 May 2024 | Milan, Italy

This workshop focuses on experimental design and sample preparation matrix enabling junior and senior scientists to apply metabolomics approaches to a research-based context. Attendees will be guided through mass spectrometry-based experiment designs, learning about cutting-edge equipment and different technical procedures for metabolomics.

More information and registration

Updates from Communities

Reminder: register for the IDP Community meeting

13 May 2024 | Hybrid - Thessaloniki, Greece

Registration deadline: 15 April (in person) | 12 May (online)

The ELIXIR IDP Community for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) will hold their F2F meeting back to back with the ML4NG 2nd Main Conference in Thessaloniki in May. The IDP Community aims to develop standards, tools and resources to accelerate the identification, analysis and functional characterisation of IDPs, i.e. proteins containing regions that lack a stable secondary or tertiary structure and that are thought to be involved in many human diseases, including cancer, Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease.

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Introduction and preparation of the ELIXIR workshop: "Empowering toxicology research - leveraging ELIXIR data solutions"

2 May 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

This webinar will provide insights into how two of the ELIXIR platforms (Data and Interoperability) can change toxicological data management, tackling challenges faced by toxicology research consortia like Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals, the Animal-free Safety assessment of chemicals: Project cluster for Implementation of novel Strategies and NanoSafety Cluster.

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Updates from other initiatives

Infectious Diseases Toolkit (IDTk) contentathon 2024

27 - 30 May 2024 | Tallinn, Estonia

Infectious Disease Toolkit (IDTk) gathers knowledge we wish we had when the pandemic hit us in the spring of 2020. At the contentathon participants will contribute to writing guidelines for data handling, analysis and visualisations in the context of infectious diseases.

More information and registration

Open call to include new beneficiaries

Deadline: 10 June 2024

The EUCAIM project launched an open call for new beneficiaries to join the consortium. The call aims to onboard new cancer image data holders and include new reliable AI algorithms trained on the cancer image data of the repository.

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Online sessions on OSCARS Open call for Open Science Projects & Services

The OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects & Services is currently open. To further clarify the application process to potential applicants and answer their questions, the project has organised four one-hour "Ask me anything" online sessions open to anyone interested in the call, with the participation of the Science Clusters' representatives.

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Developing a mapping process framework

30 April 2024 | 15:00 - 18:00 CEST

This workshop, run by FAIR-IMPACT, aims to identify standard components in the mapping process, focusing on approaches used from community practices.

More information and registration

Survey to improve SCHEMA Virtual Lab

The Tier2 project is inviting input on a survey for the SCHEMA Virtual Lab platform. The platform, currently under development as part of the TIER2 Pilot3 initiative, is dedicated to improving reproducibility in life sciences and computer science research by providing tools for creating, managing, and sharing computational workflows and data packages.

Fill out the survey

Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars

ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

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

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

ELIXIR IDP Community meeting
23 May 2024 | 10:00 - 18:00 CEST | Thessaloniki, Greece

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

Job vacancies

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job
 

ELIXIR Science Officer

Elixir

Bioinformatic technician

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

PostDoc Cheminformatics

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry

PostDoc Bioinformatics (metabolomics)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry