Weekly Brief, 16 March 2020

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This week highlights

IMPORTANT NOTICE
As of Monday 16 March, most staff at the ELIXIR Hub will be working from home. We will be unable to answer calls to our landline office numbers, but we will remain reachable via email and the usual communication channels.

After careful consideration, we have decided to either postpone or organise via remote participation (VC) all ELIXIR Hub events planned from March through to end of May. We will be in communication with the affected attendees to provide more information. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@elixir-europe.org. We will provide information on events after May as the situation develops.

ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum
28 April 2020 | NOW ONLINE

We are going Virtual

To avoid the risk of attendees being exposed to or infected with COVID-19, quarantined or restricted in their travel, we decided to move from a face-to-face meeting to a series of virtual events. A revised programme will be available shortly

9 - 13 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain

Submit a Project
to exploit the BioHackathons full potential
Deadline: 2 April 2020

19th ECCB
5 -9 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

Submit a Workshop
We have extended the deadline to Friday 20th March
Contact Jen Harrow for any doubts

Tip of the Week

Did you know we can provide Letters of Support to ELIXIR Nodes for national EU-funded projects?

Updates from Platforms

Last week, we said goodbye to our excellent Data Platform Coordinator, Rachel Drysdale. We hope the best for her future endeavours. Please, contact Jerry Lanfear for any queries related to the Data Platform

Unfortunately, de.NBI (ELIXIR Germany Node) cancelled all F2F training courses until the end of April. Only the course Introduction to Regular Expressions will take place online

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.

Bioinformatics Training and Support - SIB, ELIXIR Switzerland
Training Group at SIB and Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit at University of Bern

Post-doc position in protein bioinformatics
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Bioinformatician, genomic analyses of pediatric sarcomas
Princess Mxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Senior Research Software Engineer for the TeSS
The University of Manchester

ELIXIR-UK Community Engagement Officer
Earlham Institute
 

Upcoming ELIXIR events

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

Training on Workflow Management Systems
2-3 April | NOW ONLINE
Deadline for registration: 20 March 2020

Tools for regulatory genomics
7 - 8 April 2020 | Laussane, Switzerland
Using ISMARA, CRUNCH, EPD, and ChIP-seq tools to infer regulatory interactions from transcriptomic and epigenomic data.

Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee
27 April 2020 | Laussane, Switzerland