Weekly Brief 27 June 2016

Hub updates

As you will know, the UK last week voted to leave the EU. Given the high-profile nature of this, it is very likely that ELIXIR partners and collaborators will have questions on its possible ramifications. A short public statement is available via the ELIXIR website, clarifying the legal status of ELIXIR and that there will be no direct implications of the decision on the operations of ELIXIR.

We will continue to work closely with national and EU funders to ensure this message is communicated effectively. For any further questions, please direct to andrew.smith@elixir-europe.org.
The ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board held it's regular teleconference last week and reviewed the Node applications of ELIXIR UK and ELIXIR Greece.

The programme of this year's ECCB - including the ELIXIR Application Track - is now available on the ECCB website. You can still submit a poster to the ELIXIR Poster track at the ECCB. The deadline is 22 July 2016.

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR Slovenia has a new ELIXIR Community Manager: Urška Pleše can be reached at urska.plese@mf.uni-lj.si. ELIXIR Belgium is on twitter - follow @ELIXIRnodeBE!

Updates from Use cases

The Human data Use case and Global Alliance for Genomics and Health organise a joint Beacon Security workshop this week on Thursday and Friday (30 June - 1 July) in Hinxton, UK.

Other updates

EUDAT and OpenAIRE organised an introductory webinar on Research Data Management. The recording and slides are now available online.

Job board

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is seeking a System Administrator for their prospective ELIXIR Node.

Upcoming events

ELIXIR Technical events

30 June - 1 July 2016 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR-GA4GH Beacon Security Workshop

Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes

25-26 August 2016 | Odense, Denmark
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference

ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes

28-29 June 2106 | Bern, Switzerland
First steps with R in Life Sciences

29 August - 2 September 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Training course: Biochemical Pathways and Large Scale Metabolic Networks

12-14 September 2016 | Manchester, UK
4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences

31 Oct - 3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete
Variant Effect Prediction Training Course