Weekly Brief, 2 September 2019

Hub updates

The ELIXIR-CONVERGE application has been funded! We expect the project will start in early 2020, subject to negotiations with the EC. We thank all those involved in developing this proposal for their great work. We will be in touch in due course to provide further details and next steps. If you have any questions, please contact Juan (juan.arenas@elixir-europe.org).

The ELIXIR Hub and ELIXIR UK will also be a minor partner in another project called EnhanceEOSC, with the role of helping to integrate ELIXIR registries into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) eco-system. This project is also expected to start in early 2020.

The ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project was finalised on 31 August 2019. A big thanks to the Work Package leads and everyone involved in the projects. Read our news release highlighting the achievements of the project.

ELIXIR is looking for a Human Data Scientific Officer to join the Human Genomics and Translational Data team in Hinxton, UK. The main purpose of this role is to provide coordination and support needed to deliver an ELIXIR-wide comprehensive approach to the management of Personalised Medicine Data resources to influence impact to the future of healthcare in Europe. More information can be found on the website.

ELIXIR is looking for two candidates to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC). The call is currently open and the deadline for submission is 15 October.

The next ELIXIR webinar will take place this Wed, 4 September at 14:00 (BST) / 15:00 (CEST) and will present the ELIXIR Implementation Study "FAIRness of the current ELIXIR Core Data Resources".

Updates from Communities

A paper authored by members and leads of the ELIXIR Human Data community and BBMRI-ERIC was published in Nature Reviews Genetics last week. The paper Leveraging European infrastructures to access 1 million human genomes by 2022' explores how European research infrastructures can be leveraged to facilitate transnational access to at least one million human genomes.

Updates from Nodes

SIB announces the BC2 Basel Computational Biology Conference will take place from 9-11 September in Basel.

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.

Research assistant at the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics group
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) - part of ELIXIR-ES

Bioinformatican with focus on Data Stewardship
ELIXIR-SE / Uppsala University

Senior Scientist Computational Biotechnology
Institute of Computational Biotechnology, TU Graz

(bio-)informatician web front-end developer at the Life Sciences Department
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)

(bio-)informatician back-end engineers at the Life Sciences Department
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events