Weekly Brief, 3 June 2019

Hub updates

Were happy to announce a call for Staff Exchange projects across ELIXIR. All details are available on the ELIXIR website, we look forward to receiving your applications.

ELIXIR has established a Travel Grant Scheme to support individuals from ELIXIR Nodes to attend ELIXIR-related events. The call for applications is now open all details are on the intranet.

ELIXIR has launched the largest tranche of ELIXIR projects funded from ELIXIR budget: 28 projects worth of 5 million.

The ELIXIR webinar last week presented the CoreTrustSeal certification programme. You can view the slides from the webinar; the recording will be available this week.

Updates from Platforms

On 20-21 May 2019, representatives of the research data and training communities met at the CODATA headquarters in Paris to take the first steps in building a terminology to describe FAIR stewardship skills - the skills necessary to make data FAIR and keep them FAIR.

Updates from Nodes

There are a few seats available for the one-day Data Steward Knowledge and Skills Workshops A working meeting with and for the Data Steward Community, June 11 & June 12 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Registrations are open for a Protein Prediction workshop on 10 September in Brussels, Belgium organised by ELIXIR Belgium with the cooperation of VUB-VIB. More information and registration.
 

Call for abstracts for the international Advances in Computational Biology conference (Barcelona, 28-29 Nov, 2019) is now open. This unique scientific event will highlight research done by women in systems biology, omics technologies, artificial intelligence and HPC with applications to biology - all presenters will be women.

ELIXIR France is pleased to announce the upcoming Genopole Summer School: Bioinformatics and Bio-statistical tools in medical genomics. 24-28 June, 2019, Chteauform Seine-Port, Paris Region.

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.

Masaryk University (part of ELIXIR Czech Republic) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in Protein Structural Biology to join the Loschmidt Laboratories.

CNAG-CRG (part of ELIXIR Spain) is hiring Bioinformatician for The Single Cell Genomics team.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for (bio-)informatician web front-end developer and back-end engineers.

Orphanet (part of ELIXIR France) is recruiting a project and data manager to work on ontological modelisation project on rare diseases cases.

VIB (part of ELIXIR Belgium) is looking for Cloud software developer to work on the PLAZA platform.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

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

18-22 November 2019 | Paris, France
Biohackathon Europe