Hub updates
We have recently published a new report detailing the ways that ELIXIR Nodes support industry, including several success stories. Read the Supporting innovation in bioinformatics report to find out more.
The FAIRplus project released their second newsletter last week. You can read it online, and sign up to get future newsletters (quarterly).
EMBL-EBI is once again running a worldwide survey to understand usage of its public data resources, who uses these resources and what their users' needs are. They are hoping to get responses from a broad range of life scientists, wet-lab researchers and bioinformaticians alike so please share amongst your colleagues. The survey only takes 10-15 minutes and will close on Monday 9 September 2019 - you can also enter a draw to win an EMBL-EBI T-shirt.
Updates from Platforms
The ELIXIR Interoperability Platform will be hosting a new type of event, called "Ask Us Anything. The aim is to give the whole ELIXIR Community the chance to hear the latest Interoperability developments and to ask any questions you may have of the Platform. It will take place at 12:00 BST (13:00 CEST) on Wednesday 31 July, further information and registration here.
ELIXIR-UK are seeking a Training Impact Coordinator at the University of Cambridge. Job details and application information can be found here.
Updates from Nodes
The ELIXIR Belgium has a new head of node, Frederik Coppens. He takes over from Yves van de Peer, who continues to work as Chair of the Management Board in the Belgian Node.
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.
System Manager at the INSTRUCT Image Processing Center (I2PC)
National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC)
4 PhD positions for new bioinformatics graduate school
Bielefeld University
Research Fellowship for Master's degree position
BioData.pt
Rfam Biocurator
EMBL-EBI
System adminstrator
ELIXIR Norway, University of Bergen
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train-the-trainer (deadline for travel grant today)
29-30 August 2019 | Breda, Netherlands
First steps with UNIX in life sciences
25 September 2019 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Distributed data analysis - the {health} data train
10 - 11 October 2019 | Utrecht, Netherlands
2019 ELIXIR Biohackathon Europe *LIMITED SPACES*
18 - 22 November 2019 | Paris, France