This week's highlights
Contribute to ELIXIR 10 years anniversary social media campaign!
ELIXIR Hub is planning a social media campaign for ELIXIR 10 years anniversary. In October, we would like to have a series of posts dedicated to members from ELIXIR Nodes. Please fill in the following questions by 22 September (Friday), we will select up to 10 responses to post on social media as part of the campaign.
2nd Annual Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo
29-30 November 2023 | London, UK
ELIXIR is hosting two sessions in the 2nd Annual Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo in November. The first session will focus on Managing and sustaining Bioinformatics Infrastructures across Europe and the second session will focus on Collaborative efforts to make life sciences data more FAIR: tools, protocols and best practices.
Please join us by using the available ELIXIR discount passes (to get your discount code, please email despoina.sousoni [at] elixir-europe.org (ELIXIR Industry Officer - Despoina Sousoni)
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Recommended reads
The Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform - towards a nation-wide One Health data exchange platform for bacterial, viral and fungal genomics and associated metadata
An ELIXIR-CONVERGE paper
The Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP) is a shared secure surveillance platform between human and veterinary medicine, to also include environmental and foodborne isolates. It enables rapid and detailed transmission monitoring and outbreak surveillance of pathogens using whole genome sequencing data and associated metadata. It features controlled data access, complex dynamic queries, dedicated dashboards and automated data sharing with international repositories, providing actionable results for public health and the vision to improve societal well-being and health.
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Proteomic Characterization of SAS Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Relation to Both BPA and Neutron Irradiation Doses
An ELIXIR Implementation study
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a selective radiotherapy based on nuclear reaction that occurs when 10B atoms accumulated in cancer cells are irradiated by thermal neutrons, triggering a nuclear fission response leading to cell death. The authors performed proteomic analysis to study the cellular response related to both boron administration and neutrons action. The results provide the first proteomic investigation of EVs treated with BNCT in different conditions and highlight the potentiality of proteomics for improving biomarkers identification and mechanisms understanding of BNCT.
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Updates from Nodes
Online training - TeSS: How can I help?
20 October 2023 | Online
This session will introduce the use of the TeSS, a platform to promote training events and news and to contribute to a growing catalogue of materials. The training is meant for anyone that is organising events and creating material and would like to contribute to the platform as well improve the impact of their training resources.
More information and registration
Overview of compute and storage resources in data-driven life science
8 September 2023 | Online
At this event, representatives from SciLifeLab Data Centre, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS), National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS), and National Supercomputer Centre at Linkping University (NSC) will give an overview of who does what and how to access different services, and how to interact regarding input, feedback or suggested new services.
More information and registration
Updates from Communities
Register for the Toxicology Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
20 September 2023 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
Registration deadline: 1 September (in person) | 19 September (online)
The Toxicology Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in September. The meeting aims to advance the implementation study, promote FAIR practices in toxicology data management. and discuss collaboration with the Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) and other toxicology projects, for leveraging the FAIRification of toxicology data and ELIXIR life sciences infrastructure for toxicology. The meeting will be held after the PARC WP7 meeting.
Find out more and register now
ELIXIR Microbial Biotechnology Community: Call for one new co-lead
Deadline: 9 October 2023
The ELIXIR Microbial Biotechnology Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the current Community leadership team (Vitor Martins dos Santos and Anil Wipat). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role. For any questions or nominations, please contactclare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org ( Clare Garrard)
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Updates from other initiatives
2023 Galaxy community conference meeting report
In July, the 2023 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2023) was held at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Hosted by Galaxy Australia and Australian BioCommons, GCC2023 consisted of four days of talks, workshops/trainings, posters, and demos; three keynote speakers; and three days of Collaboration Fest (CoFest).
Find out more in the report
Kick-off meeting of @EOSC4Cancer's Cancer Data Support Professionals Network"
6 September 2023 | 13.00 - 14.00 CET
The network aims to:
- share resources, expertise, and challenges
- work together on identified tasks
- connect already existing networks of cancer data support professionals
If you are involved in cancer research or a cancer-related project, supporting cancer researchers in your institute, or are involved in building and operating the infrastructure, this session might be of interest for you.
More information and registration
EJP-RD Variant Prioritization and Enrichment for Rare Diseases Workshop
20-23 September 2023 | Istanbul, Turkey
Registration deadline: 9 September 2023
In this workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of Whole Exome Sequencing including terminology, pre and post-alignment processing, and variant calling using the Genome Analysis Toolkit pipeline.
More information and registration
Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars
ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal
SIB course: First Steps with Python in Life Sciences
27 - 29 September 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
9 - 10 October 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Containers and Snakemake for Reproducible Research
12 - 13 October 2023 | Davos, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI: Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation
12 - 16 February 2024 | Online
EMBL-EBI: Exploring gene and environmental exposure interactions to understand human health and disease
19 - 23 February 2024 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Toxicology Community meeting
20 September 2023 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
Galaxy Community meeting
4-6 October 2023 | Hybrid - Freiburg, Germany
BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain
3D BioInfo Community meeting
15-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic
Federated human data (FHD) Community meeting
16-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Job vacancies
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job
Science Officer - Bioinformatics Tools & Training
ELIXIR Hub
IT System Administrator for Science-IT
Technical University of Munich
Auxiliary RESEARCHER (M/F) in the area of Bioinformatics/Data Science
Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)
Semantic Web Architect
UK CEH
Auxiliary RESEARCHER (M/F) in the area of Bioinformatics/Data Science
Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)