Weekly Brief, 5 August 2019

Hub updates

Applications are open for the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures course. Applications are welcome for the full Master, as a team, and for individual modules. Deadline for applications 30 September 2019 and the programme begins in March 2020.

  • The ELIXIR Hub is considering to fund an ELIXIR 'team' application aiming to support ELIXIR Node members with management responsibilities, assuming there is enough interest. Please register your interest to participate.
  • If you are interested in the individual Full Master programme please discuss funding with your line manager directly. Discounts are available where there are more than two participants from a research infrastructure - please contact Claire Johnson for further information.

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) have a call for expression of interest to recruit an Ethics Advisor. The Advisor will be in charge to verify the application of EU ethical/legal/regulatory framework within the project. Deadline for applications is 1 September 2019.

Updates from Platforms

The ELIXIR Training Metrics Database is now live! This database was developed in an effort to streamline data collection, storage, and visualisation of ELIXIR Training quality and impact data. Browse the interface to view ELIXIR-wide summaries and to interact with dynamic reports.

Updates from Nodes

The [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference is approaching soon (9-12 September) with its exciting line-up of talks, tutorials and workshops. Registration is still open, and discounted rates available until 15 August. Please see the conference programme for full details.

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.

Research Fellowship for Master's degree position
BioData.pt

Rfam Biocurator
EMBL-EBI

System adminstrator
ELIXIR Norway, University of Bergen

Training Impact Co-ordinator
University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Grant
INESC-ID Elixir Portuguese Node

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events