Weekly Brief, 2 March 2020

Hub updates

BioHackathon Europe 2020
9 - 13 November | Barcelona, Spain

JOIN US FOR A SENSATIONAL WEEK OF HACKING!
IS THIS FOR ME? Watch what other peers said about last year's BioHackathon
Exploit all the benefits of this event by proposing a project to work on.
ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT!

19th European Conference on Computational Biology
5-9 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

CALLING NOW FOR...
https://eccb2020.info/call-for-applications/
https://eccb2020.info/call-for-highlights/
https://eccb2020.info/call-for-proceedings/
https://eccb2020.info/call-for-posters/

LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT A WORKSHOP!

  • 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

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Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-FI publishes an article on All breast cancer risk factors evaluated with AI and a news release on this relevant AI application to detect breast cancer.
Recommended Read: de.NBI Quarterly Newsletter

Updates from Platforms

The GA4GH will be a mentor organisation in the annual Google Summer of Code.
University students are funded to work on a 3-month programming project with an open-source organization. Members of the Compute Platform are looking for passionate, bright minds to join them:
  • Alex Kanitz | SIB, Czech Republic
  • Shubham Kapoor | CSC, Finland
  • Marius Dieckmann | University of Giessen, Germany
  • Ania Niewilska | EMBL-EBI, UK

Take a look at the projects available here

 

ELIXIR-ES opens registration for the course on
Bioinformatics for precision medicine: From reads to disease variants
20 - 24 April | Institut Catal d'Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain

  • 4-day GATK Workshop
  • 1-day Disease Variant Prioritization Tutorial

On February 26, the kick-off of the EOSC Working Group on Training & Skills took place in Brussels. Find ELIXIR's presentation here, that set the scene from an RI perspective.

Online Carpentry Instructor Training
19-20 May 2020
With a particular emphasis on Software Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Data Carpentry

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

Research Data Management Specialist
CSC - IT Center for Science

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