Weekly Brief, 17 April 2023

This week's highlights

ELIXIR LEadership And Diversity mentoring programme (ELEAD)

Call for participation

ELEAD aims to increase the number of women in ELIXIRs upper management and to support them to develop leadership skills in line with the values of the ELIXIR community. The ELEAD pilot consists of a mentoring scheme, professional training and guidance in key leadership skills. It builds on ELIXIR Spain experience of the Bioinfo4Women programme (B4W).

Learn about the programme

Mentee expression of interest form (closes April 28)

The ELIXIR innovation and industry programme - how are we doing?

Interactions with industry have been a key part of ELIXIR since the infrastructure was launched in 2013. Nearly ten years on, we reflect on how the ELIXIR industry programme has evolved and its impact so far.

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Register for the RDMkit Contentathon!

22-24 May | Ghent, Belgium or online

An opportunity to add your expertise on managing life sciences data, software and other research outputs to RDMkit.

Register by 7 May | View the agenda

Reminder: ELIXIR Node industry engagement days pilot programme

Closing 31 April 2023

Nodes with an emerging interest in industry engagement are invited to host a day to connect with their national industry ecosystem and explore industry engagement based on the Nodes strategic goals and priorities.

Find out more

Nodes already engaged with their national industry ecosystem are advised to consider hosting an Innovation and SME Forum scheme.

Recommended reads

An evaluation of EDAM coverage in the Tools Ecosystem
and prototype integration of Galaxy and WorkflowHub
systems

A BioHackathon Europe paper

Here we report the results of a project started at the BioHackathon Europe 2022. Its goals were to cross-compare and analyze the metadata centralized in the Tools Ecosystem, and linked to the EDAM ontology, as well as to explore methods for connecting tools used in registered Galaxy workflows (i.e. WorkflowHub entries) to the annotations available in bio.tools.

Read more

Robust bioinformatics approaches result in the first polygenic risk score for BMI in Greek adults

An ELIXIR Greece paper

Quantifying the role of genetics via construction of polygenic risk scores is useful tool to enable and promote effective obesity prevention strategies. The present paper proposes a novel methodology for PRS extraction and presents the first PRS for body mass index in a Greek population.

Read more

Updates from Nodes

 

Open Life Science joins ELIXIR-UK

Open Life Science (OLS) have joined ELIXIR-UK, bringing the Node to 23 members (and 1 observer). OLS is mentoring and training programme for those interested in becoming Open Science ambassadors.

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Bridging the gap between researchers and the life sciences & health research infrastructures

13-14 June 2023 |lunch to lunch |Utrecht, Netherlands & online

Save the date! A Health-RI/EOSC-Life workshop showcasing EATRIS, BBMRI and ELIXIR tools and resources.

Event page (final program and registration details to follow soon)

Upcoming courses from the Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology research school

• Molecular Epidemiology of Complex Diseases
• Algorithms for Biomolecular Networks (Advanced)
• Algorithms for Genomics
• Integrated Modeling and Optimization (Fundamental)

Find out more

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR-GOBLET Train-the-Trainer for ELIXIR Systems Biology & Single-Cell Omics Communities

22-26 May 2023 | 10-13:30 CET | online

This special Train-the-Trainer includes a session on presentations, tips from expert trainers and time for discussion on the challenges when teaching in these two scientific areas. Registration is now open, everyone interested in becoming a better trainer is welcome to attend.

Programme and registration link

Workshop: FAIRification of training materials an introduction

3 May 2023 |online

All are welcome to attend the workshop, hosted by ELIXIR-EMBL-EBI, as part of the EOSC-Life project.

Event information Registration

Updates from Communities

Galaxy Smrgsbord 2023

22-26 May 2023 | Online

Updates from other initiatives

This Wednesday! Reducing research waste across
sciences

19 April | 9 CET | online

Research waste is all the research with a limited or no informative value. The symposium will bring this multitude of stakeholders, both in the panel and the audience, together. We will start by two short presentations of what is currently known about research waste, followed by a panel discussion.

Find out more

Apply now: RItrainPlus management training programme

RItrainPlus is accepting applications to its brand new management training programme aimed at professionals in a research infrastructure or core facility.

The continuous professional development programme, organised as a pilot in summer 2023, has been designed to strengthen the managerial capabilities of professionals working in scientific institutions.

Find out more

Apply now: Eurizon fellowship programme - Remote research grants for Ukrainian researchers

Find out more

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 All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | 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
 

Web developers and designers

CRG

Data Scientist

Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)

Fixed-term technical position: Interoperability services for biomedical data

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Fixed-term technical position: Services based on machine and deep learning methodologies for the analysis of biological sequences and structures

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

FAIR Data Coordination Project Lead / Coordinator

EMBL-EBI