Weekly Brief 25 February 2019

Hub updates

The 2019 Summary Report of the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee has been published. The report includes contributions from IAC members provided at their annual face-to-face meeting on 29 January 2019. The report and more information is also available on the ELIXIR website.

Premysl Velek will leave the post of ELIXIR Communications Officer at ELIXIR Hub team in June 2019. The job vacancy to find his replacement is already published, the deadline to apply is 2 April.

Updates from Platforms

View a new presentation of the ELIXIR Core Data Resources. For each resource, we've compiled information about its scientific domain, type of data it collects, and basic statistics.

Updates from Nodes

Radbound University (part of ELIXIR Netherlands) is organising a Summer School Integrative X-omics analyses empowering personalized healthcare on 1-5 July 2019 in Nijmegen.

Registrations are open for the SIB course on NGS - Genome variant analysis, in Bern on 29-30 April 2019.

The registrations are open for the ELIXIR Finland course Variant analysis with GATK in Helsinki, Finland, on 14.-17 May 2019.

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.

ELIXIR is seeking an experienced Communications Officer to join the ELIXIR Hub team in Hinxton, UK. The deadline to apply is 2 April.

The Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics at the Radbound University Medical Centre in the Netherlands is looking for data scientist, who develops data analysis and integration approaches for large-scale -omics data and is dedicated to the introduction of these approaches in personalized health care.

The Algarve Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR, part of ELIXIR Portugal) is hiring a Junior Researcher to work in the context of the EOSC-Life project.

The Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Crdoba (IMIBIC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Bioinformatician to optimize the use of the available technological resources and computational infrastructure of IMIBIC.

SIB Training and sciCORE (ELIXIR Switzerland groups) are looking for a Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist to support training and research services.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXI Spain) is looking for a highly motivated Research Engineer to join the Computational Genomics group.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

5-6 March 2019 | Stockholm, Sweden
ELIXIR Innovation and SME event: Genomics and Associated Data in National Healthcare Initiatives

15-16 April 2019 | Bergen, Norway
ELIXIR Board meeting

17-20 June 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR All Hands meeting