Weekly Brief 4 March 2019

Hub updates

We are continuously improving the ELIXIR intranet, its landing page now collects links to useful information & materials and frequent tasks. In the coming weeks we will be adding more liks to manage your ELIXIR profile. http://elixir-europe.org/intranet

Updates from Platforms

The registration is open for the Training Platform Task 4 (Training Capacity Building) Kick-off meeting in Lisbon, on 20 June 2019 at 14:00-18:00. Register before April 1, 2019!

Registration is open for the BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations, taking place in Pula, Italy from 30 June to 5 July 2019. The summer school includes lectures and hands-on sessions on Molecular Dynamics simulations, Biomolecular Docking, QM/MM, Free energy calculations and advanced sampling methods (Metadynamics).

Updates from Communities

The 21st Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting is taking place in Vienna, Austria, on 20 May 2019. The registration is open.

Updates from Nodes

Software Sustainability Institute has been awarded 6.5 million funding to improve research software practices. Carole Goble, Head of ELIXIR UK, is one of the Co-Investigators.

Applications are open for the ELIXIR-Carpentry Instructor Training event in Stockholm on 3-4 April 2019.

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

Registrations are now open for the ELIXIR-FI courses Data Carpentry in R (1-2 April 2019) and Variant analysis with GATK (14-17 May 2019) in Espoo, Finland.

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.

ELIXIR Hub is also looking for Project Support Administrator (deadline 24 March) and Administrative Assistant. (deadline 31 March).

Oxford University is looking for Research Software Engineer to join the Oxford e-Research Centre. The successful candidate will work across multi-partner projects to improve FAIRness of datasets, algorithms, software and scholarly articles.

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.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events