Action items
From last week's update:
Let us know (mailto:nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org) if you are interested in representing ELIXIR in a panel discussion at the EuroDish (http://www.eurodish.eu/) final conference EXPO to be held in Milan Italy on 15th May 2015.
For information
Ongoing activities
Ilkka Lappalainen joins the ELIXIR Hub team
We are pleased to announce that EMBL-EBI's Ilkka Lappalainen has this week joined the ELIXIR Hub team as a visitor to the ELIXIR Hub, and will over the next year be helping to develop ELIXIR's strategy on human data.Further information about Ilkka and the work he will be doing for ELIXIR can be found on the ELIXIR Website. (http://www.elixir-europe.org/news/new-elixir-hub-staff-boosts-expertise…)
First Long Term Sustainability of ELIXIR Core Resources Working Group meeting
Today the Working Group established to assess possible avenues for ensuring Long Term Sustainability of ELIXIR Core Resources and provide recommendations to the ELIXIR Board on how the issue of long term sustainability should be handled within ELIXIR met for the first time at London Heathrow.The Working Group is chaired by ELIXIR Director, Niklas Blomberg and consists of a small number of members, including Heads of Nodes, ELIXIR Board members and external experts.The agenda for the meeting and list of participants can be found here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gLj8K05ZVNUEVPL0DYHemwDodVvqNnam18Q…) . A full report from the meeting will be made available in due course.Membership of the WG will be reviewed from time to time to ensure reflects the needs of the community. If you are interested in participating you are encouraged to make your interest known.Further background information on the group and why it was established can be found here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WQQq4hwmbQanFGNVdOTXZUQUE/view?usp=s…) .
Sign up now open for ELIXIR all hands breakout sessions
A google document with all the information about the upcoming ELIXIR all hands meeting can be found here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Epa8Ri0N6ha-LY5jR146m8_YgKGWIV-RV0q…) .Sign up for the breakout sessions is now open and will be handled on a first come, first served basis. If you have not done so already, you can choose which breakout session you would like to attend here (http://doodle.com/wa8fi8nfwfpczc5y) .An ELIXIR HoNs meeting will be held over lunch in the Meadow Room, EMBL-EBI South Building 11.30 - 13.00 on 30 March, in advance of the all - hands meeting which starts at 13.00. An agenda for this meeting will be made available in due course.Upcoming events which may be of interest to ELIXIR Nodes
Deadline for BC2 Conference Oral Presentation Abstracts
A reminder that the deadline for submitting oral presentation abstracts for the [BC]^2 Basel Computational Biology Conference to be held at the Congress Center in Basel, Switzerland on 7th-10th June 2015 is this Sunday 15th March.More information about submitting abstracts and registration for the conference can be found on the BC2 website (http://www.bc2.ch/2015/) .
BioSHaRE Conference
The FP7 project, BioSHaRE (https://www.bioshare.eu/) which aims to develop and implement tools and methods for data pooling and analysis across biobanks and cohort studies, will be holding a conference to demonstrate their latest tools and services for data sharing in Milan, Italy on July 28, 2015, in conjunction with the HandsOn Biobanks Conference 2015 (http://handsonbiobanks.org/) to be held in Milan on July 29-31 2015.For more information about the event and to register visit the BioSHaRE conference website (https://www.aanmelder.nl/bioshare-conference-milan2015) .
Reminder of Key Meetings/Dates
ELIXIR collaboration workshop on marine informatics, Hinxton, UK (16-17 Mar 15 (http://%20https:/www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elixir-collaboration-workshop-on-marine-informat…) )
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum event, Wageningen, Netherlands (18-19 Mar 15) (http://www.elixir-europe.org/events/innovation-and-sme-forum-data-drive…)
ELIXIR Data Carpentry workshop, Espoo, Finland (18-19 March 2015) (http://apawlik.github.io/2015-03-18-csc-espoo/)
ELIXIR 'all-hands' meeting, Hinxton (30 - 31 Mar 15) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Epa8Ri0N6ha-LY5jR146m8_YgKGWIV-RV0q…)
ELIXIR Board meeting, Geneva, Switzerland (13-14 Apr 15)ELIXIR Finland launch event (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elixir-finland-launch-tickets-15925505616) (4 May 15)
HoN teleconference (4 Jun 15, 09:00-12:00 BST, 10:00-13:00 CEST)
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum event, Basel, Switzerland (9 June 15) (http://www.elixir-europe.org/events/innovation-and-sme-forum-basel-swit…)
HoN meeting, Hinxton, Cambridge (21 Oct 15)ELIXIR Board meeting, Hinxton, Cambridge (22 - 23 Oct 15)
BioMedBridges Open Symposium, Hinxton, UK (17-18 Nov 15) (http://www.elixir-europe.org/events/biomedbridges-open-symposium-buildi…)
Information on upcoming TeCG meetings can be found here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ga_8ICx1RgH2DsgvPsCTBLD4QXEGGHGyESk…) .Information on upcoming TrCG meetings can be found here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rbab3GKN-Scx1nct4TlC5kaRHLLt1mn5Wks…) .