Weekly Brief, 17 February 2020

Hub updates

  • The Galaxy Community keeps growing and evolving. Check out the latest developments in our news release

Register for this Wednesday's Webinar!
ELIXIR Guest Webinar: Text mining of disease-gene networks
19 February 2020 | Online | 14:00 GMT/15:00 CET

Available Workshop slots for the 19th European Conference on Computational Biology
5-9 September 2020 | Barcelona, Spain

  • Submit your proposals Tell us the aim, predicted outcome and its alignment with a Platform, Community or strategic ELIXIR activity
  • Chose a half-day workshop or a full-day slot
  • Deadline 13th of March!
  • Contact Jen Harrow jen.harrow@elixir-europe.org

COMMUNICATIONS UPDATES
Due to an unexpected overlap of #CONVERGE with several other topics on social media, we will adopt a new, distinct hashtag: #ELIXIRCONVERGE.

Our excellent Communications Officer, Erin Haskell, will officially start her maternity leave this Thursday. Please, contact Xnia Prez Sitj for any communications-related queries at xenia.sitja@elixir-europe.org or at info@elixir-europe.org

Tip of the Week

Did you know you can access an interactive map to navigate through the ELIXIR network of institutes and Nodes?
 

Updates from Nodes

 

ELIXIR-FI publishes a fascinating article: A dog can smell diseases

 

ELIXIR-DE | de.NBI thanks all 1586 training course participants from 2019 with a substantial increase in participation since 2018

 

ELIXIR-IT launches the Laniakea@ReCaS service to provide personalised management of Galaxy instances.
Calling now for applications for the pilot service

Updates from Platforms

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY for funding (2000) for up to 10 established training events in 2020. The deadline is Today, 17 of February. Any questions contact Jessica Lindvall (ELIXIR-SE), jessica.lindvall@nbis.se

A paper on TeSS was recently accepted and published by Oxford University Press to review the training platform's features, workflows and future prospects.

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

Natural Language Processing Engineer position at the Integrative Biomedical Informatics group
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB)

Bioinformatician / Computational biologist at the Computational Genomics group
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

Data scientist / postdoc bioinformatics
Radboud University Medical Center

Research Associate - Bioinformatician
WT Stem Cell Institute
 

Upcoming ELIXIR events

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

ELIXIR events

3-Day Course Single-cell Transcriptomics
1-3 April 2020 | University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Software Carpentry Course
30-31 March 2020 | Cologne, Germany

Innovation and SME Forum: Data-Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector
24 -25 March 2020 | Lyon, France

ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum
28 April 2020 | London, UK