Weekly Brief, 3 April 2023

This week's highlights

Please note that there will be no Weekly Brief on 10 April (Easter Monday).

ELIXIR and BBMRI-ERIC announce strategic collaboration

ELIXIR and BBMRI-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, have announced a strategic collaboration with the signing of a joint statement. The organisations will work together to support synergies in scientific collaborations!

Read the news release

BioHackathon project proposal submission closing soon

Do you have a bioinformatics project idea that needs a little stimulus? Submit your project proposals to get the chance to meet with experts to drive the project forward.

Submit your project proposal by 10 April 2023

ELIXIR Tech team webinar: Training Platform

20 April 2023 | 15:00-16:00 CEST

This month the ELIXIR Tech team webinar will focus on Training Platform and its activities. Join the webinar to learn more about ELIXIR Training Platform.

Register now

Recommended reads

Biodiversity data supports research on human infectious diseases: Global trends, challenges, and opportunities

A BiCIKL paper

The unprecedented generation of large volumes of biodiversity data is consistently contributing to a wide range of disciplines, including disease ecology. Despite several data-mobilization initiatives, the usage of biodiversity data for research into disease dynamics has not yet been fully leveraged. To explore current contributions and trends, and to identify limitations, the authors characterised biodiversity data usage in scientific publications related to human health, contrasting patterns of studies citing the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) with those obtaining data from other sources. The contribution of biodiversity data to understand infectious disease dynamics should be acknowledged, strengthened, and promoted.

Read more

Trojan-horse silk fibroin nanocarriers loaded with a re-call antigen to redirect immunity against cancer

An ELIXIR Implementation Study

The current challenge for immunotherapies is to generate effective antitumor immunity. Since tumor immune escape mechanisms do not impact pre-existing and consolidated immune responses, researchers tested the hypothesis of redirecting a pregenerated immunity to cancer: to recall a non-tumor antigen response against the tumor, SFNs have been selected as Trojan-horse carriers, promoting the antigen uptake by the tumor cells. SFNs-OVA and SFNs-CpG show the efficacy of an innovative active immunotherapy approach based on the redirection of pre-existing immunity against cancer cells. This approach could be applied for solid cancer treatments if translated into the clinic using re-call antigens of childhood vaccination.

Read more

Updates from Nodes

HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative Workshop

17-19 April 2023 | Leiden, Netherlands

HUPO-Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) is the community responsible for open data and metadata standards and controlled vocabularies in proteomics. Register now to join the HUPO-PSI workshop.

More information

FAIRsharing Educational for the research community

The first six factsheets developed for FAIRsharing Educational were released. The factsheets were developed through a collaboration between the FAIRsharing team in University of Oxford (ELIXIR-UK) and FAIRsharing Community Champions.

Read the blog post for more information

Updates from Communities

3D Bioinfo Community webinar: Computer Aided Drugs Design (CADD)

18 April 2023 | 17:00 CEST

Join 3D BioInfo Communitys new webinar series. The first webinar will focus on Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD).

Register now

Register for the ELIXIR Systems Biology Community F2F/hybrid & Implementation Study kick-off Meeting

12 - 14 April 2023 | Hybrid - Braga, Portugal
Registration deadline: 11 April (online)

The Systems Biology Community will hold their combined F2F/hybrid and Implementation Study kickoff meeting in April. The meeting will include presentations, round tables, and a workshop on Microbiome modelling. F2F registration has closed, but registration for online attendance is still open until 11 April.

Find out more and register now

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 will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in July. The 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 activities.

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

Find out more and register now

Updates from Other Initiatives

Call for papers: 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure - Connecting Communities

12-14 September 2023 | Karlsruhe, Germany

The Association German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is initiating the first Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) in September 2023.
The main topics of the conference include technical and non-technical aspects for establishing interdisciplinary research data management.

More information and submission

Funding information in Europe PMC now includes ROR IDs

The Europe PMC Grant Finder tool now incorporates ROR IDs - open persistent identifiers for research organisations. This integration links institutions with grant awards and disambiguates grant affiliations.

Learn more from the blog post

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 Systems Biology Community F2F/hybrid & Implementation Study kick-off Meeting
12 - 14 April 2023 | Hybrid - Braga, Portugal

ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: AI in Health Research
13 April 2023 | Utrecht, the Netherlands

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

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job
 

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

FAIR Data Coordination Project Lead / Coordinator

EMBL-EBI

Bioinformatics Technical Community Engagement Officer

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

Senior Research Engineer

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