Hub updates
Dr Stephanie Suhr, Senior ELIXIR Project Manager has decided to leave the ELIXIR Hub to pursue new opportunities. She has made many contributions to the early phases of ELIXIR: as BioMedBridges project manager, overseeing the submission of the CORBEL and EXCELERATE proposals, as EXCELERATE project manager and leading the work on the ELIXIR ELSI policy. Please join us in wishing Steffi the best of luck in the future!
The ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project Mid-Term review takes place this week on Wednesday in Brussels. The meeting will be followed by a one-day ELIXIR Conference 'Core Resources for Data Economy' to discuss the impact of open biological data on innovation and growth.
Developing the next ELIXIR Programme
ELIXIR has initiated the preparations for the next five-year ELIXIR Scientific Programme (2019-2023). The new Programme will be agreed with the ELIXIR HoN committee and approved by the ELIXIR Board in 2018, before starting in January 2019.
The five Platforms and Human genomics and translational data area have been sent a slide template to consider their priorities for this. Based on responses from the Platforms by 24 May, the ELIXIR Hub will prepare a discussion topic for the HoN retreat in June to initiate planning of the Programme.
The current Use Cases have prepared extensive reports for the EXCELERATE mid-term review, and two proposals for possible new Use Cases (Proteomics and Metabolomics) will be discussed at the June HoN retreat. Based on these reports, and agreement on principles for selecting Use Cases, the decisions on Use Cases to be included in the next Programme will be taken after summer, at which point they will be asked to prepare a case proposal.
New ELIXIR website design
The new ELIXIR website design is now live. Thanks to all those who voted on the designs and provided feedback! Feel free to continue to provide feedback by email to webmaster@elixir-europe.org.
If you would like to keep in touch with the latest developments and plans for the site then let Martin Cook know. He sends brief periodic updates about what's happening on the site to a small mailing list.
Update from Nodes
A summary report from the Strategic Workshop: "Future of Metabolomics in ELIXIR" held in Frankfurt organised by ELIXIR Germany and Netherlands, in coordination with the PhenoMeNal project and the Netherlands Metabolomic Centre, is now available. ELIXIR Italy is organising a Workshop and Summer School in Advanced Computational Metagenomics taking place in Bari, Italy 19- 23 June 2017. Full details here.
Updates from Platforms
The next meeting of the Bioschemas Implementation Study will be held at the EMBL-EBI from 24-26 May 2017. Further details here.
Update from Uses Cases
The EATRIS bi-annual Translational Medicine 2017 Conference will take place in Prague, 24-26 September 2017. The deadline for oral and poster presentation is approaching. More information here.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Chief Technical Officer to join the team.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is looking for a Chief Operating Officer to strengthen the team of the Vital-IT Competence Centre in Lausanne.
ELIXIR Luxembourg is seeking a Data Steward to join the Node.
ELIXIR Belgium has openings for a Software Developer and a Data Science Cloud Coordinator.
Upcoming events
See the ELIXIR TeSS portal for all events organised by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
11 May 2017 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Core Resources for a Data Economy Conference
22-24 May 2017 | Cambridge, UK
ELIXIR/GOBLET/GTN hackathon for Galaxy training material re-use
30 May - 1 June 2017 | Ghent, Belgium
ELIXIR BrAPI BYOD/hackathon
6-7 June 2017 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Genomics, bioInformatics and health - Private-Public partnerships around open data
3-5 July 2017 | Cambridge, UK
EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop