Hub updates
ELIXIR would like to welcome Prof. Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health and Science University, USA) and Dr Doreen Ware (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA) as new members to the ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board. The appointments were approved by the ELIXIR Board at the Spring Board meeting in April 2018.
Registrations are open for the RItrain Workshop on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion hosted by EMBL-EBI, 29-30 October 2018. The workshop will enable you to increase knowledge of the full spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion, hear from and exchange experiences with other RIs on their challenges and solutions. Apply through the online application form or contact Claire Johnson (claire@ebi.ac.uk) for any questions.
To advertise the second CORBEL Call for research projects to industry and cater for industry needs more directly, CORLBEL has now updated their website: http://www.corbel-project.eu/open-call/application-from-industry.html
The full programme of the ECCB 2018 in Athens has been published. See http://eccb18.org/programme.
Updates from Platforms
The Request for Proposals for the ELIXIR Bioschemas Travel Grants and Staff Exchange Programme is now open. Applicants may apply for (1) travel grants to Bioschemas event or (2) Node staff exchange. If you plan to apply for the Bioschemas travel grant to ECCB-Bioschemas workshop, we encourage you to apply now, using the online application form. Email: proposals@elixir-europe.org C/O Sirarat Sarntivijai if you have further questions.
Job board
The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.
The Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for an INB/ELIXIR-ES Training and Support Officer (RE1). The candidate will contribute to revamp the existing ELIXIR-ES training portfolio and to strengthen the coordination of the Node.
The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)
1-2 October 2018 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Joint Technical Coordinators & Training Coordinators meeting
15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event