Hub updates
Greece is now full ELIXIR member, following the signature of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by Professor Kostas Fotakis, Alternate Minister of Research and Innovation.
The updated ELIXIR International Strategy was presented last week at the International Conference for Research Infrastructures (ICRI) in Vienna, Austria.
The ESFRI roadmap for 2018 was launched this week in Vienna. ELIXIR continues on the roadmap as an ESFRI landmark. Several new projects have been added, including two in the Health and Food domain - METRO-FOOD and IBISBA - and one in the field of biodiversity - DISSCO - all of which could have some potential touching points with ELIXIR.
The EOSCpilot 10th Webinar will be dedicated to Governance. Andy Smith and Pascal Kahlem will present the Recommendations for a minimal set of Rules of Participation for EOSC. Tomorrow, 18 September at 12:30 CEST. Register online!
The ELIXIR Webinars are back after the summer break! This Wednesday, the webinar will present the eLearning Platform developed and managed by ELIXIR Slovenia. 19 September 2018, 15:00 CEST.
Updates from Platforms
Limited spaces at Biohackathon are reserved for Bioschemas hacking activities. There also Bioschemas travel grants available to implement Bioschemas hacking under the topic Adding Bioschemas markup to data repositories and developing tools to find, consume and use it. Deadline for Biohackathon-Bioschemas Travel Grant application is 10 October 2018. Contact sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org.
Updates from Nodes
Registrations are open for the SIB course on Bioinformatics of long read sequencing, in Zurich (Switzerland), on 8-9 November 2018.
ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI) is organising Tool-Training for Proteomics - a one day course where the Proteomics tools namely PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms, PAA - Protein Array Analyzer and "CalibraCurve" will be introduced.
Job board
ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two system developers with operational responsibility, based at Uppsala University.
The ELIXIR Core Data Resource, CATH, is seeking to hire a 3 years Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on protocols for using protein structural data to link sequence with function.
ELIXIR is offering an internship position relating to Beacon. The candidate will support the ELIXIR Beacon implementation study and the Beacon activities driven by the Human Genomics and Translational Data Services at the ELIXIR Hub.
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Data Coordination Centre (DCC) and BioMedIT in Basel (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for a Director, Data Coordination Centre and Personalized Health Informatics Group
The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.
The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
Joint Technical Coordinators & Training Coordinators meeting
15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event
12 December | Brussels, Belgium
HoN meeting