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Associate professor in algorithmic bioinformatics at Uppsala University, Sweden
by Bengt Persson 21 May '21

21 May '21

Dear all, Uppsala University in Sweden is currently recruiting an associate professor in algorithmic bioinformatics. (Please note that an applicant can be promoted to Professor if he/she applies for this and is qualified for such a post.) Deadline 22 June 2021. More details are available at: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=393072 Sorry for cross-posting. All the best, Yours, Bengt Persson -- Bengt Persson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Bioinformatics Head of department Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICM) Uppsala University Telephone: +46 18 471 4422 Mobile phone: +46 70 425 0230 Facsimile: +46 18 530 396 E-mail: bengt.persson(a)icm.uu.se<mailto:bengt.persson@icm.uu.se> Address: Uppsala University ICM -- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology BMC, room C10:308c Box 596 S-751 24 Uppsala, SWEDEN När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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17 and 18 June 2021: Helis Life Science & Health Academy - Optimizing Industry readiness in the The Netherlands and Flanders
by Celia van Gelder 20 May '21

20 May '21

<https://helisacademy.com/en> Dear colleague, Helis Academy, a 3-year project, is nearing its project end date. For this reason we would like to welcome you one last time during our online *Closing event on 17&18 June.* <https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event> Helis Academy aims to increase the industry readiness in Health and Life Sciences by developing training programmes in line with the knowledge and skills that are required in the industry. This online event will combine these elements in *2 days filled with informative, interactive sessions. * *Day 1: Symposium - 17 June, 09:30-12:30 - ONLINE* On 17 June Helis Academy presents you an online symposium. You’ll learn more about the project, the cross-border collaboration programme and *how careers in life sciences are stimulated and supported* during the presentations by flanders.bio, Interreg Vlaanderen-Nederland and the keynote of Academic Transfer. Afterwards, you will be able to join 1 of our *4 interactive parallel sessions* and discover more about some of the *Helis’ domains*: (1) Product & process design (2) Data analysis & stewardship (3) Technology & life sciences and (4) Business development. You’ll get the opportunity to expand your network and attend a *networking carrousel* in which you’ll be matched automatically with other attendees. The morning ends with an *inspirational panel discussion* and a plenary summary where the main outcomes of the parallel sessions will be presented. *View website & register* <https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event/symposium> *Day 2: Student Programme - 18 June, 08:30-13:00 - ONLINE* Curious to learn more about the* life sciences sector in the Netherlands and Flanders?* Join the online Helis Academy Student Programme on 18 June to find out more about the diverse job opportunities and career paths that the life sciences domains offer. This unique opportunity allows you to *interact with different companies and industry experts in a virtual setting.* The event will be organized on the OnAir platform, where you will be able to follow plenary presentations (with live Q&A) and participate in ‘Meet your Match’ sessions with employers in *the domains of product & process design, data analysis & stewardship and business development.* The Student Programme is aimed at students, recent graduates and starters in the field of life sciences. *View website & register* <https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event/student-programme> *About Helis Academy* Helis Academy is a consortium of 10 public and private partners that strive to optimize the Life Sciences & Health cluster in the Netherlands and Flanders by increasing industry readiness. The project focuses on the development and coordination of appropriate training programmes by matching companies' job requirements and profiles to curricula. Helis Academy is financed by the Interreg V-programme Flanders-Netherlands, the cross border collaboration programme with financial support from the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRO). Keep an eye on the *website* <https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event> for more information. We look forward to welcoming you online on *17 & 18 June!* Kind regards, On behalf of the Helis Academy team Celia van Gelder [image: LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/helisacademy/> [image: Website] <https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event> -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Programme Manager DTL Learning Training Coordinator ELIXIR-NL ELIXIR Training Platform Leader tel. +31613375327 e-mail: celia.van.gelder(a)dtls.nl websites: https://www.dtls.nl/, https://www.elixir-europe.org/platforms/training skype: celia.van.gelder Office: DTL | Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile (JIM) | 6th floor Beatrixgebouw | Jaarbeursplein 6 | 3521 AL Utrecht Postal address: Postbus 8500 | 3503 RM Utrecht While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no expectation to receive a reply outside yours.

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SciReC2021 Challenge - Call for participation (with prize for top performing submission)
by Francisco M Couto 18 May '21

18 May '21

Apologies for cross-postings and please help to disseminate SciReC2021 - Scientific Recommendations Challenge ( https://lasigebiotm.github.io/scirec2021) is the first challenge with the goal of benchmarking a new recommendation dataset in the fields of Health and Chemistry. SciReC2021 is organized by LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and KNODIS, University Automona/Politecnica of Madrid, Spain. The challenge provides a standard dataset of implicit feedback focused in the fields of Health and Chemistry, specially developed from a corpus of documents related to COVID-19 disease (https://forms.gle/Bik6h6Zz62HG3YxYA) The items in the dataset are diseases from the Disease Ontology (DO) and chemical compounds from the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest ontology (CHEBI), with correspondence to the DrugBank. The goal of the participants will be, given a set of users with a set of items ordered sequentially, to provide a ranked list with the possibilities of the next item for each one of those users. == AWARDS == Unicage will support this event by contributing with a prize for the team that achieves the best MRR. The prize is expected to be an open-source microcontroller board, such as arduino or similar. Accepted contributions will be presented during the SciReC2021 Online Workshop co-located at the 12th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB). IMPORTANT DATES Test set release: May 31st, 2021 Participants final results: June 21st, 2021 Paper submission deadline: July 5th , 2021 Workshop: August 1st, 2021 ACADEMIC ORGANIZERS Márcia Barros, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Francisco M. Couto, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Ángel González-Prieto, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Raúl Lara-Cabrera, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Matilde Pato, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Fernando Ortega Requena, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain A detailed description of the challenge is available on the website of the SciRec Challenge 2021: https://lasigebiotm.github.io/scirec2021

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Data Manager (Data Services and Infrastructure Support) - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
by Eva Alloza 17 May '21

17 May '21

Dear all, The Data management team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is looking for a "*Data Manager - Data Services and Infrastructure Support"* to support scientists with Data Applications, Data Services, Tools and Infrastructure. Job profile and application form: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/14421opdm The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired, don't miss your opportunity! *Key duties:* * Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of data services connected to the distributed computing systems of the Center. * Support the users of the Open Stack platform at BSC premises and with the Data Services deployed. * Deploy and maintain solutions to manage scientific data according to requirements specified in research data management plans. * Support BSC researchers to ensure the appropriate implementation of standards and methodologies for data management. Help us spreading the word ;) Warm regards, -- -- Eva Alloza Training and Support Officer Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) mail: eva.alloza(a)bsc.es web: http://inb-elixir.es Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) c/Jordi Girona, 31 - Torre Girona Building 08034 Barcelona (Spain) http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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Computational Biologist positions at GSK Rixensart - BE
by Fernando Ulloa Montoya 13 May '21

13 May '21

Dears, We have two positions for computational biologists in the Data Science and Computational Vaccinology team in GSK Vaccines in Rixensart Belgium. We are looking for candidates with expertise on single cell multi-omics data analysis; ideally applied to immunology or vaccinology. Senior data scientist / computational biologist in Rixensart, Belgium | GSK Belgium<https://jobs.gsk.com/en-be/jobs/289794?lang=en-us&previousLocale=en-BE> Senior Manager Data Scientist in Rixensart, Belgium | GSK Belgium<https://jobs.gsk.com/en-be/jobs/258493?lang=en-us&previousLocale=en-BE> Please take a look and apply if you'd be interested to know more. Best regards, Fernando Fernando Ulloa Montoya, Ph.D. Head Data Sciences and Computational Vaccinology R&D Belgium Center GSK Vaccines 89 Rue de l'Institut, 1330 Rixensart, Belgium Email FERNANDO.X.ULLOA-MONTOYA(a)GSK.COM<mailto:FERNANDO.X.ULLOA-MONTOYA@GSK.COM> gsk.com<http://www.gsk.com/> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/GSK> | YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/user/gskvision> | Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/glaxosmithkline> | Flickr<http://www.flickr.com/photos/glaxosmithkline> [Description: cid:image002.png@01CEC5CC.68B4C240] GSK monitors email communications sent to and from GSK in order to protect GSK, our employees, customers, suppliers and business partners, from cyber threats and loss of GSK Information. GSK monitoring is conducted with appropriate confidentiality controls and in accordance with local laws and after appropriate consultation.

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Training on Deep Learning for Life Sciences & Health - 2nd edition
by Marques Neves, Ana 10 May '21

10 May '21

Helis Academy: Training on Deep Learning for Life Sciences & Health On the 10th of June 2021, Helis Academy and TU/e will organize the 2nd edition of the online course on Deep Learning for Life Sciences & Health. This online program provides the opportunity to get insights on theory, current practice in industry and expected possible future practice in industry within just one day, right from behind your own PC. At the end of the training, you should be able to understand basic principles of machine learning and deep learning. Selected examples of applications for medical image analysis will also be discussed. More information and registration is available here: https://helisacademy-deeplearning-2ndedition.eventbrite.nl [A picture containing text Description automatically generated] Kind regards, [Eindhoven University of Technology] Rita Neves, M.Sc. Researcher | Eindhoven University of Technology | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science M: +351 914 878 562 | +31 (0)6 838 33 047<tel:+351%20914%20878%20562%20|%20+31%20(0)6%20838%2033%20047> E: a.r.m.marques.neves(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.r.m.marques.neves@tue.nl> A: Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven [https://img.mysignature.io/s/v3/0/d/a/0da47aae-d980-5ecc-919d-f6cbbc5bd6e2.…]<https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-neves/>

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CFP META'2021 @Marrakech
by El-ghazali Talbi 05 May '21

05 May '21

Dear colleagues, please distribute the CFP of META Conf. in your networks. Thanks for your collaboration. Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. ********************************************************************** META'2021 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 27-30 Oct 2021 Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2021.sciencesconf.org/ ********************************************************************** META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2021 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP) conference proceedings. At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also confirmed. META'2021 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2021 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions. The scope of the META conference includes, but is not limited to: * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, … * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired algorithms, … * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, … * Quantum computing, neuromorphic computing * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Decomposition methods * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, … * Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, … * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, … * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, stochastic optimization, … * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive) * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing Submission of papers: ____________________ - Submission of papers via the website S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages. S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages. S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of the work. - Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP). - Predefined styles are available on the website http://meta2021.sciencesconf.org/ - Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline April 9, 2021, contact meta2021(a)sciencesconf.org Important dates _______________ - Submission deadline: May 30, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2021 -- ********************************************************************** META'2021 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 27-30 Oct 2021, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2021.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS guide2research.com

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Monday May 10 at 16:00: Dr. Pjotr Prins (UTHSC, USA) and Dr. Joep de Ligt (ESR, NZ) will give a joint UBC webinar over *COVID-19 sequencing*
by Melquiond, A.S.J. (Adrien) 05 May '21

05 May '21

The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center<https://ubc.uu.nl/> is happy to announce their next online seminar on Monday May 10 (16:00-17:30). Dr. Joep de Ligt<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z2edTLkAAAAJ&hl=en> and Dr. Pjotr Prins<https://thebird.nl/> will present their work on "COVID-19 sequencing in New Zealand and the PubSeq<https://covid19.genenetwork.org/> SARS-CoV-2 public sequence resource”, which originated from an online biohackathon last year. If you are interested in joining (free attendance), click on the event link: https://ubc.uu.nl/events/ubc-seminar-covid-19-sequencing-in-new-zealand-and… Joep de Ligt is the science lead genomics and bioinformatics at New Zealand’s ESR and heavily involved in the genomic sequencing of the Covid 19 virus. He also assists in informed virus spread epidemiology and contact tracing. Joep is of the opinion that SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and accompanying results should be available to everyone on the planet. New Zealand benefits from sequences uploaded by individual labs world-wide and ESR contributes to PubSeq metadata efforts and online sequence uploading using the Oxford Nanopore sequencer, with the goal of enabling sequencing everywhere. Pjotr Prins is an assistant professor in Genetics, Genomics and Informatics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. UTHSC supports FAIR data initiatives and actively uses PubSeq to build phylogenetic trees. In the context of PubSeq Pjotr and colleagues also contribute to new pangenome methods that benefit from open data exchange. Joep and Pjotr are former members of UBC<https://ubc.uu.nl> and they still help organising their award-winning MSc. Course Advanced Bioinformatics: data mining and data integration for life sciences<https://osiris.uu.nl/osiris_student_uuprd/OnderwijsCatalogusSelect.do?selec…> ---------------------------------- Links: PubSeq: https://covid19.genenetwork.org/ Joep: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z2edTLkAAAAJ&hl=en Pjotr home: https://thebird.nl/ ---------------------------------- Best regards, Adrien Melquiond ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adrien Melquiond<https://www.uu.nl/staff/ASJMelquiond>, PhD * Coordinator of the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) | Hans Freudenthal 0.07 | Budapestlaan 6, 3584CD Utrecht | https://ubc.uu.nl<https://ubc.uu.nl/> | +31.(0)30.2536617 | ubc_AT_uu.nl<mailto:ubc@uu.nl> * Asst. Prof. in Bioinformatics at the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM), UMC Utrecht | Stratenum 1.304 | Universiteitsweg 100, 3584CG Utrecht | +31.(0)88.75.68790 | a.s.j.melquiond_AT_umcutrecht.nl<mailto:a.s.j.melquiond@umcutrecht.nl> Contact hours: UBC: Tue-Thu | CMM: Mon-Wed-Fri ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Who are we and what do we do? Watch our movie<https://goo.gl/mx1mPN>

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Senior data scientist position at Enhanc3D Genomics
by Michiel Thiecke 05 May '21

05 May '21

Enhanc3D Genomics is looking for a data scientist / senior data scientist Enhanc3D Genomics is a functional genomics spinout company from the Babraham Institute (Cambridge, UK) leveraging a disruptive technology to profile three-dimensional (3D) genome folding at high resolution. Understanding DNA organisation and long-distance interactions allows to link gene enhancers and non-coding genetic variants to their target genes and holds promise to unlock disease-related genetics for therapeutic discovery. We are looking for a forward thinking, enthusiastic, highly motivated data scientist / senior data scientist to join the technology team tackling complex data analysis problems across the whole spectrum of Bio R&D. Enthusiasm and passion to work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to solve research problems combining data science and machine learning expertise are keys to this role. Please find attached the full job description. For more information please contact Debora Lucarelli dlucarelli(a)enhanc3dgenomics.com Kind regards, Dr Michiel Thiecke Senior Bioinformatician Enhanc3D Genomics Ltd. http://enhanc3dgenomics.com/

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SMRTLeiden 2021
by Ahmed Mahfouz 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear All, Our yearly long-read sequencing conference, SMRTLeiden, is coming up in a few weeks. Please find the details below and join if interested. Cheers, Ahmed Mahfouz ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMRTLeiden Young Investigator Virtual Conference Date: 27 - 28 May 2021 Want to hear about the latest scientific discoveries and novel analytical achievements enabled by HiFi sequencing? Check the agenda <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprograms.p…> for the *SMRT Leiden 2021 – Young Investigator Virtual Conference. *This year the spotlight will be on young investigators*.* *Agenda highlights:* - Live keynote presentations from: - Arang Rhie, National Human Genome Research Institute - Melissa L. Smith, University of Louisville - Tychele N. Turner, Washington University School of Medicine - Tobias Marschall, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Hubert Pausch, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich - A session focusing on COVID-19 surveillance - SMRT Informatics sessions and discussions on WGS, Iso-Seq analysis and Targeted sequencing - Interactive Q&A and panels discussions - A round table on career development where young investigators will discuss their experiences and answer your questions Register <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprograms.p…> today and join the SMRT community to learn how highly accurate long-read sequencing can help you answer your toughest biological questions.

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