Weekly Brief, 24 April 2023

This week's highlights

Change in ELIXIR leadership announced

Niklas Blomberg, Director of ELIXIR since its formation in 2013, announced that he will be stepping down from the role at the end of 2023, coinciding with the completion of the 2019-23 Scientific Programme. The ELIXIR Board has initiated the search for a new ELIXIR Director and appointed a search committee with recruitment opening shortly.

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Austria to join ELIXIR as an Observer

Last week, the ELIXIR Board approved Austria's application to join ELIXIR as an Observer. We warmly welcome our Austrian colleagues and look forward to working together.

New staff in the Hub

Carla Giuffre joined ELIXIR Hub last week as a Legal and Ethics Officer covering ELSI related matters at the ELIXIR Hub.

Recommended reads

Making in silico predictive models for toxicology FAIR

An eTRANSAFE paper

In silico predictive models for toxicology include quantitative structure-activity relationship and physiologically based kinetic approaches to predict physico-chemical and ADME properties, toxicological effects and internal exposure. Such models are used to fill data gaps as part of chemical risk assessment. This paper describes how the FAIR principles have been applied to in silico predictive models, particularly focusing on how the FAIR principles could be applied to improved regulatory acceptance of predictions from such models.

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TEFM variants impair mitochondrial transcription causing childhood-onset neurological disease

An EJP-RD | ELIXIR-ES paper

Mutations in the mitochondrial or nuclear genomes are associated with a diverse group of human disorders characterized by impaired mitochondrial respiration. The TEFM gene encodes the mitochondrial transcription elongation factor responsible for enhancing the processivity of mitochondrial RNA polymerase, POLRMT. The study highlights that TEFM regulates mitochondrial transcription elongation and its defect results in variable, tissue-specific neurological and neuromuscular symptoms.

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Updates from Nodes

Prague Protein Spring 2023

4-7 May 2023 | Prague, Czech Republic

The Prague Protein Spring 2023, organised by OCB Prague, the ELIXIR-CZ coordinating institution and consortium partner, aims to cover a thematic issue "Proteins and Diseases", addressing concepts and system approaches demonstrated on selected general topics.

More information and registration

Tissue samples analysed with Sensitive Data (SD) services provide new information on celiac disease and other autoimmune diseases

Celiac disease is a condition in which gluten in cereal-containing food products containing rye, wheat and barley cause inflammation and damage to the small intestinal mucosa. RNA sequencing of patient tissue samples and cells makes it possible to study the immune system, and whether its functioning properly.

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Updates from Communities

Register for the IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting

3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia
Registration deadline: 29 May (in person) | 04 July (online)

The IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting aims to unite experimentalists and method developers to discuss challenges and define joint opportunities in the field. A part of the meeting will be dedicated to the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme and the Community's possible role and activities.

The meeting will be held before the COST Action ML4NG Main Conference (July 4-7)

Find out more and register now

Save the date: 2023 ELIXIR Marine Metagenomics/Microbiome F2F/hybrid meeting

12 & 13 September 2023 | Hybrid - F2F location TBC

The ELIXIR Marine Metagenomics/Microbiome Community meeting will take place in September 2023. The Community also plans to have a joint session with ELIXIR Biodiversity Community, the detailed information will be announced soon. Please save the date for the meeting and stay tuned with us for more information.

Save the date: 2023 ELIXIR Biodiversity F2F/hybrid meeting

13 & 14 September 2023 | Hybrid - F2F location TBC

The ELIXIR Biodiversity Community meeting will take place in September 2023. Additionally, on 14 & 15 September 2023, an Implementation Study extension meeting will be linked. Please save the date for the meeting and stay tuned with us for more detailed information.

Updates from other initiatives

Webinar - European Research Services on Agroecology

15 May 2023 | Online

This webinar will give researchers an opportunity to connect with other practitioners interested in the field of agroecology.

More information

European Research Services on Agroecology Conference

5 & 6 June 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic

The first edition of the AgroServ Conference will present the diverse agroecological services accessible via AgroServ and the different facets that shape research in the emerging field of agroecology.

More information

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

ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

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

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

Job vacancies

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Data Scientist

Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)

Fixed-term technical position: Interoperability services for biomedical data

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Fixed-term technical position: Services based on machine and deep learning methodologies for the analysis of biological sequences and structures

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Web Front-end Developer

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES