This week's highlights
Expansion of ELIXIR management training programme
The ELIXIR Training in Management (ELITMa) programme is expanding as part of the Horizon Europe-funded ELIXIR-STEERS project and the PeoplePulse internal ELIXIR project.
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A refresh of the ELIXIR Collaborations webpage
ELIXIR Hub has refreshed the ELIXIR Collaborations webpage as part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen ELIXIR's international presence.
Explore the new ELIXIR international collaborations and European RIs collaborations page
New vacancies at ELIXIR Hub
Manager ELIXIR Project Management Office
Help ELIXIR Hub drive the professional project management practices that underpin the implementation of ELIXIR's scientific programme and enable the effective management of our internal and external portfolio of projects.
Senior Project Manager (EC Projects)
Provide project management capacity for implementing ELIXIRs flagship European Commission project, the European Genomic Data Infrastructure project.
Recommended reads
A novel strategy for Glioblastoma treatment by natural bioactive molecules showed a highly effective anti-cancer potential
ELIXIR Italy paper
Glioblastoma is a severe form of brain tumor that has a high fatality rate. It grows aggressively and most of the time results in resistance to traditional treatments like chemo- and radiotherapy and surgery. In this article, the use of some natural compounds, such as Allium lusitanicum, Succisa pratensis, and Dianthus superbus, was explored to tackle Glioblastoma; they showed their impact on cell number reduction, which was partially given by cell cycle quiescence. Metabolic studies showed an induced cell oxidative stress modulation and a massive metabolic rearrangement.
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Region-specific gene expression profiling of early mouse mandible uncovered SATB2 as a key molecule for teeth patterning
ELIXIR Czech Republic paper
This research performed a comprehensive analysis of gene expression at the early stages of odontogenesis to obtain complete knowledge of the signalling pathways involved in early jaw patterning. Gene expression was analysed separately on anterior and posterior areas of the lower jaw at two early stages of odontogenesis. Gene expression profiling revealed distinct region-specific expression patterns in mouse mandibles and the researchers also identified several new molecules exhibiting significant differences in expression along the anterior-posterior axis, which potentially can play a role during incisor and molar specification.
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Updates from Nodes
New drug targets from RNA-binding proteins
Molecular dynamics simulations provide insights into how biomolecules interact with each other at the atomic level, which will provide new information for drug design.
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NIH funding to develop a global Pathogen Data Network
Led by SIB in partnership with EMBL-EBI and numerous other global partners, this network aims to provide infrastructure, tools, training, outreach and support to FAIR infectious-diseases data sharing and reuse. It will cover diverse biodata types, including host and pathogen genomics, transcriptomics, proteins, pathways and networks, imaging and cohorts.
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Read the news from EMBL-EBI
Updates from Communities
Single-Cell Omics Community training course Spatial omics data analysis
21 - 24 January 2025 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Registration deadline: 11 November 2024
This course will delve into the cutting-edge field of Spatial Omics, focusing on Spatially-Resolved Transcriptomics technology which provides unprecedented insights into the spatial organization of gene expression within tissues.
More information and registration
Updates from other initiatives
An introduction to High Performance Computing
4 - 5 December 2024 | Online
Registration deadline: 15 November 204
BioNTs third training workshop "An introduction to High Performance Computing" is built upon the Carpentries and HPC Carpentry online learning materials and will cover all basic concepts needed to access an HPC cluster and to run applications and workflows.
More information and registration
A new service for publishing sensitive medical research data deployed in a pilot project
The FEGA service, developed for sensitive biomedical research data, enables the secure publication of research data. The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) differs from other available publication and analysis services in that the data are not exported from the service, but analysed within a protected internal cloud service. FEGA is part of CSCs sensitive data services, which enable the use of sensitive data for research.
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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
SYBEL 2023 webinar (Systems Biology)
14 October 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST | Online
ELIXIR Estonia: Basic LINUX/Unix workshop
23 October 2024 | Tartu, Estonia
ELIXIR Estonia: Laboratory documentation with Markdown
30 October 2024 | Tartu, Estonia
ELIXIR Estonia: Version control with Git
6 November 2024 | Tartu, Estonia
de.NBI: How to efficiently access the data of BacDive, BRENDA, LPSN, SILVA and more
11 November 2024 | 14:00 - 16:00 CET | Online
SIB course: Data analysis and representation in Python
11 November 2024 | Online
SIB course: Interactive visualization with Python
12 November 2024 | Online
SIB course: NGS - Quality control, alignment, visualisation
20 - 22 November 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation
24 - 28 February 2025 | Online
EMBL-EBI course: Applications for gene-environment interactions in human health and disease
17 - 21 March 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
EMBL-EBI course: Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
31 March - 4 April 2025 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR Interoperability Platform F2F meeting (hybrid) 2024
25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, UK
Job vacancies
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