Hub updates
Did you miss the Innovation and SME event in Milan last month? Read our news release to find out what happened at the 'Data management for life sciences - a driver for innovation' event organised collaboratively with ELIXIR Italy. Recordings of the keynote talks are available.
We have also just opened registration for another ELIXIR Innovation and SME event "Data driven innovation in the agritech sector" to be held in Lyon, France 24 - 25 March 2020 in collaboration with ELIXIR Belgium, ELIXIR France, EMPHASIS, and Bayer.
We're pleased to announce six new Platform Leads for 2020. We'd like to thank all Platform Leads past and present for their work to support ELIXIR's Platform activities.
Updates from Platforms
The last Gallantries Project face-to-face meeting took place at INAB | CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece 9-10 December. During this meeting the R and RStudio lessons within Galaxy were refactored, along with a pop-up course on making volcano plots in R. Helena Rache put out a blog-post on this, and materials were shared by the Galaxy twitter channel.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-CZ have created a very engaging animated video all about ELIXIR and the Czech Node. Features FAIR data and ELIXIR AAI. Well worth a watch!
ELIXIR-CZ are also looking for people to offer peer-review of their internal projects on a range of topics:
Structural bioinformatics Extension of ELIXIR core data resources Data management planning Human Data Personalized medicine/health care Genome annotation
ELIXIR Finland has published a new article about ELIXIR Compute Platform for life and health sciences. Read to find out about how the Compute Platform has helped research across multiple ELIXIR Communities.
The Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL) have released their 2019 highlights newsletter. Read on to find out about their activities with ELIXIR and beyond.
Further to the announcement of the GOBLET Executive board in a previous edition of the ELIXIR weekly brief, we also would like to highlight that Javier de las Rivas was elected as Executive Coordinator of Learning, Education and Training. Javier is also involved in ELIXIR as an INB/ELIXIR-ES principal investigator and ELIXIR lead of the institute in Salamanca.
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.
Senior Research Software Engineer
University of Manchester
Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics (FAIR data in pharma)
BiGCaT, University of Maastricht
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
ELIXIR-SE / NBIS
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum: Implementing FAIR data principles in industrial life science research
29 January 2020 | Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Innovation and SME Forum: Data Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector
24 -25 March 2020 | Lyon, France