Weekly Brief 7 May 2018

Hub updates

 

Corinne Martin has joined the ELIXIR Hub as Extrernal Relations Officer. Corinne will be responsible for ELIXIRs International Strategy and supporting Nodes in demonstrating the impact of their activities. She can be reached at corinne.martin@elixir-europe.org

Pascal Kahlem now acts as interim Training Platform Coordinator. He can be reached at pkahlem@googlemail.com.

A new report from the ELIXIR RDA group from the Eleventh RDA Plenary Meeting can now be found via the ELIXIR Intranet. We would like to acknowledge the members of ELIXIR's RDA Group, who actively represent ELIXIR in RDA meetings! The group can be contacted via rda-contact@elixir-europe.org.


The Call for submissions to the ELIXIR Application Track at ECCB 2018 is still open. Submit your abstracts by 15 May 2018.

Register for the Integrative Bioinformatics Symposium 2018 at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK on 13-15 June 2018. The early bird registration closes today!

Updates from Platforms

 

ECCB 2018 workshop on "Logical Modelling of Cellular Networks", on Saturday 8 September in Athens, Greece. Call for abstracts closing on 15 June, 2018.

ELIXIR Slovenia and ELIXIR Spain organize a conference workshop Parallel Computing and Bioinformatics Research on 30 May, 2018. The number of places in the workshop is limited, register as soon as possible.

 

The ELIXIR Software development best practices group and ELIXIR Training Platform is organising a workshop during CarpentryCon starting the development of new Carpentries lesson to teach practices presented in "Four simple recommendations" F1000 paper.

Updates from Nodes

 
ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI) has a new video! Watch it on the de.NBI YouTube channel.

Register for the de.NBI - CeBiTec Nanopore Best Practice Workshop 2018, 19-21 September at Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
 
Registrations open for the SIB course Docker for reproducible computational research, in Bern (Switzerland), on 13 June 2018.

Registration open for the SIB course "First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences, in Lausanne (Switzerland), on 29 May 2018.
 
ELIXIR Slovenia is organizing the traditional European HPC Summit Week 2018 conference, 28 May - 1 June, in Ljubljana. Registrations open until 7 May 2018.

Job board

 
ELIXIR Hub is looking for Operations Support Officer to implement a range of process developments for managing and reporting on the technical programme.

CSC (ELIXIR Finland) is looking for a DevOps specialist to develop and operate CSC's container clouds and for Technical data management specialist.

ELIXIR Norway is looking for two Senior Engineers to join the Node development team at the University of Oslo.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

16 May 2018
ELIXIR Webinar on the Sustainability Implementation Study

23 May 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Access to Sensitive Human Data with the ELIXIR AAI

4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting

13 June 2018
ELIXIR Webinar on the Systems Biology Implementation Study

6-10 July 2018, Chicago, USA
ISMB 2018 (including ELIXIR Session on 10 July)

8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)

12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting

12-16 November 2018 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Biohackathon