Weekly Brief, 19 June 2023

This week's highlights

Dublin hosts ELIXIR community for All Hands 2023

Dublin, with its seminal early contributions to bioinformatics, served as an ideal host for the ninth ELIXIR All Hands meeting. The event brought 382 in-person guests and 114 remote attendees and provides a platform for ELIXIR colleagues to advance their collective vision of making life science data and resources accessible to everyone.

Read the highlights of ELIXIR All Hands 2023

ELIXIR Tech team webinar: Data Platform

22 June 2023 | 15:00-16:00 CEST

This month the ELIXIR Tech team webinar will focus on Data Platform and its activities. Join the webinar to learn more about ELIXIR Data Platform.

Register now

Expressions of Interest for Science Priority Area co-Leads

As discussed at the recent ELIXIR All Hands Meeting, we seek experts familiar with ELIXIR's organisation and with our scientific Priority Areas to co-lead our actvities in the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme. These co-leads will work with Hub staff to help shape our strategy for allocation of core funding, for participation in consortia, and for the selection and development of new ELIXIR Communities. We invite expressions of interest for 3 co-leads of each of the two new Priority Areas:

• Cellular and Molecular Research co-lead Expression of Interest

• Biodiversity, Food Security & Pathogens co-lead Expression of Interest

Interested individuals should complete the forms by 09:00 CEST on 21 Aug 2023 and selections will be made by 14 Sep 2023.

Should you have any questions, please contactkatharina.heil [at] elixir-europe.org ( Katharina Heil)

Provide your feedback on the 2019-2023 ELIXIR Scientific Programme

Deadline: 23 June 2023

During the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting last week, we ask our participants to provide feedback on the 2019-2023 ELIXIR Scientific Programme. The deadline for the Menti has been extended and all comments are welcome.

Provide your feedback

Recommended reads

A Resource for Guiding Data Stewards to Make European Rare Disease Patient Registries FAIR

An EJP RD paper

This paper reports on the development of a dynamic data management planning questionnaire to guide data stewards of the European Reference Network rare disease patient registries to make their data FAIR. The questionnaire was validated through expert review and aligned with existing resources on rare diseases and FAIR data management. This questionnaire is the first model created for the Data Stewardship Wizard that helps ERN patient registries with making their data FAIR. It will assist data stewards in aligning their efforts and providing guidance on FAIR data.

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Mpox Knowledge Graph: a comprehensive representation embedding chemical entities and associated biology of Mpox

A BY-COVID paper

The outbreak of Mpox virus (MPXV) infection in May 2022 is declared a global health emergency by WHO. The MPXV pathophysiology and its underlying mechanisms are unfortunately not yet understood. In this work, using Knowledge Graph (representations we have depicted chemical and biological aspects of MPXV. To achieve this, the authors have collected and rationally assembled several biological study results, assays, drug candidates and pre-clinical evidence to form a dynamic and comprehensive network.


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Updates from Nodes

Frederik Coppens interview in FWO Annual 2023 Spreads

Frederik Coppens, Head of Node of ELIXIR Belgium, was featured in the FWO Annual 2023 Spreads. In the interview, he mentioned the importance of collaborations with ELIXIR colleagues and how ELIXIR Belgium contributes to realising our goal of an integrated infrastructure for life science research.
By sharing data, researchers can have better collaborations.

Read the article

Register for the Microscopy Image Analysis Course 2023

3-4 August 2023 | Heidelberg University, Germany
Registration deadline: 3 July 2023

The course gives an introduction to the field of microscopy image analysis for cell biology and the use of software tools for automated processing of image data. Basic methods for computer-based analysis of microscopy images are introduced such as image preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction, classification, and colocalization.

More information and registration

Train-the-Trainer: Integration of the sex and gender dimension in life sciences research

28-29 June 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

The inclusion of the sex and gender dimension in life sciences is increasingly promoted by the EU to rethink standards and reference models for sex and gender representation in research projects. This Train-the-Trainer course is aimed to develop participants skills on how to introduce the sex and gender dimension into their training activities related to the life sciences.

More information and registration

Updates from Communities

IDP Community call for new co-lead

Deadline: 18 August 2023

The ELIXIR IDP Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Damiano Piovesan and Wim Vranken). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

A big thank you to Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi for her work as a co-lead and we wish her all the best.

For any questions please contact katharina.heil [at] elixir-europe.org (Katharina Heil)

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hCNV Community call for new co-lead

Deadline: 18 August 2023

The ELIXIR hCNV Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Michael Baudis nd Christophe Broud). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

A big thank you to David Salgado for his work as a co-lead and we wish him all the best.

For any questions please contact katharina.heil [at] elixir-europe.org (Katharina Heil) or giselle.kerry [at] elixir-europe.org (Giselle Kerry)

More information

Updates from other initatives

Open call: Support for the implementation of SARS-CoV-2 data hubs at national and regional levels

Deadline: 1 September 2023

The BY-COVID project has an open call for proposals to support the implementation of additional SARS-CoV-2 data hubs to increase the flow of viral sequence data into the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), in line with open science principles.

More information

Bioconductor.org website user survey

Deadline: 23 June 2023

Bioconductor.org is in the process of redesigning its website. The survey aims to understand the needs of the diverse user base, including wet lab biologists, data analysts, funders and many other roles.

Fill out the survey

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

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

Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

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
 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University College London

Communication Officer

VIB