Hub updates
All seven submitted Staff Exchange project proposals will receive funding from ELIXIR (two of them will first have to address reviewers comments). Many thanks to all submitters and to internal reviewers for their constructive comments!
ELIXIR Community is asked to put forward nominations for the Programme Committee of the 2018 All Hands meeting. We are looking for members with a broad scientific and technical expertise covering ELIXIR Platforms, Use Cases and Services. The deadline is Thursday 28 September; send your nominations to allhands@elixir-europe.org.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Hungary appointed new members, to the ELIXIR Governance bodies:
Dr Balu00e1zs Gyu0151rffy, Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, is the new Head of Node for Hungary.
Endre Barta, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Gödöllu0151, Hungary is the new Technical co-ordinator.
Bu00e1lint L. Bu00e1lint, Institute of Genomic Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Debrecen, is the new Training Co-ordinator.
Updates from Platforms
The Data Platform welcomes the addition of CATH to the list of ELIXIR Core Data Resources. CATH (Class, Architecture, Topology, Homologous superfamily) is a hierarchical domain classification of protein structures in the Protein Data Bank, and provides information on the evolutionary relationships of protein domains.
The Data Platform will be giving a webinar on The ELIXIR Core Data Resources - selection process and outcomes at 2pm (UK time) on Wednesday 20th September.
Job board
ELIXIR Hub is looking for Junior Project Manager to support the management of EXCELERATE and CORBEL. There are two internship positions open at the ELIXIR Hub: the Bioschemas internship and the ELIXIR Beacons internship.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a wide variety of inspirational events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
18-22 September 2017 | Rome, Italy
5th International Summer School/BYOD event: Rare Disease & Orphan Drug Registries
27-29 September, 2017| Fisciano, Italy
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer course
9-10 October 2017 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in food, nutrition and the microbiome
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting