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🌍 Big news for the microbiome community!
The 3rd Microbiome PT Summit is going international!
📅 15–16 April 2026 | Lisbon
Theme: Microbiome in Human Health
Expect keynotes, panel discussions, early-career talks, and more. Plus some of the best coffee and pastel de nata in the world.
👉 Save the date and stay tuned for details!
#MicrobiomePTSummit2026 #Microbiome #HumanHealth #Networking #Research
🎉 Congrats to our BioData.pt colleagues Daniel Faria & Gil Poiares-Oliveira on their co-authorship in Patterns (Cell Press)!
The article showcases the impact of RDMkit, ELIXIR’s flagship RDM resource.
📢Join our eLabFTW hands-on course!
🗓️Sept 22, 2025 | 14:00–17:00
📍 CCMAR, Univ. Algarve (Faro)
🔹Learn to use eLabFTW, the open-source ELN for managing & sharing experiments, and RDM best practices for life sciences!
https://events.biodata.pt/event/13/
☀️ BioUpdate Summer is out!
MALDIBANK, ELIXIR Compute, training, and more from BioData.pt 🧪🌍
📬 Catch up now: biodata.pt/newsletter
#BioData_pt #ELIXIRPT #ELIXIREurope
Registration open for Ready for BioData Management? Intensive course in Coimbra!
📅 9-10 Oct 2025
📍 CNC, Univ. of Coimbra
🛠️ Galaxy • Dataverse • DSW
🎯 For http://BioData.pt Associate institutions only (max. 32)
🔗 https://events.biodata.pt/event/11/
#BioData_pt #GLIM_Biodata #RDM
📢 GeneT from #UCoimbra is hiring a Data Steward!
Support data management in gene therapy research, innovation & clinical trials — aligned with FAIR principles.
📅 Apply by 18 July 2025
https://www.uc.pt/en/genet/genet-events/recruitment-genet-is-hiring-a-data-steward/
BioData.pt was proudly represented at Encontro Ciência 2025 by Inês Chaves, Miguel Cisneiros & Gil Poiares Oliveira, presenting posters on GLIM-BioData, Ready for BioData Management & our work on secure, GDPR-compliant genomic data via the EGA!
💻 Yesterday we kicked off the Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences course (GLIM-BioData) with a fully online, hands-on session!
💡 Topics: #RDM, vocabularies/ontologies, eLabFTW, Git, Snakemake
👏 Thanks to all trainers & participants!
Looking forward to the next session!
🎉 Day 2 of the Ready for BioData Management Intensive Course just wrapped up at CIIMAR!
Hands-on sessions with #Galaxy, #Dataverse & the Data Stewardship Wizard helped bring #RDM and #FAIRdata to life.
Thanks to all who joined us!
📍 Day 1 of the Ready for BioData Management: Intensive Course wrapped up today at #CIIMAR!
Hands-on sessions on #RDM, data documentation, sharing & reuse — all in the vibrant setting of Matosinhos.
💬 Thanks to all who joined!
Powered by #GLIM_BioData @BioData_pt
📅 On July 1st, the FEGA Metadata WG and @BioData_pt hosted a workshop on adapting the FEGA model to microbiome datasets from GIMM, INESC-ID & UCIBIO. Great input from 🇵🇹 FHD community!
Another step toward #FAIRdata & metadata harmonisation.
🚐 BioData.pt on the road!
Yesterday we visited #UCoimbra's CNC to present the benefits of being a BioData.pt Associate and introduce the #GLIM_BioData project.
A big thank you to the team — more to come!
🚀 BioData.pt joined the first in-person meeting of the Open Science Community Lisboa on June 24 at #Iscte!
Our colleagues Miguel Cisneiros and Gil Poiares-Oliveira took part in the discussions on tackling key challenges across the 8 pillars of #OpenScience!
🧬 The Genome of Europe initiative has launched a public awareness survey on genomics & personalised medicine — now underway in Portugal 🇵🇹 and 4 other EU countries!
As a project partner, BioData.pt is proud to contribute to this important effort. 👏
📸 Prof. Andres Metspalu, University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics
🌍 GBIF Training in action!
This week, Miguel Cisneiros from @BioData_pt is attending “Publicação de dados de biodiversidade através do GBIF - 2025” at @ISA_ULisboa.
Building FAIR data skills to support RDM across biodiversity, life & health sciences! 🚀
📢 GLIM-BioData Roadshow is coming to Coimbra!
🗓️ June 30, 10h15
📍 CNC, Coimbra
Join us to explore FAIR data practices & tools with BioData.pt (#elixireurope PT Node) & GLIM-BioData RDM Centre.
Researchers, techs & students welcome!
🚀 Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences 2025 is here!
Hybrid training by BioData.pt & GLIM-BioData:
🔹 FAIR, vocabularies, workflows & tools
📅 Starts July 7 (online)!
👥 32 spots!
Register 👉 https://events.biodata.pt/event/8/
#BioData_pt #GLIM_BioData #RDM
Presented yesterday at the 🇵🇹 Re.Data Network meeting:
🎉The new Core Group of Data Stewards for Life & Health (GLIM-BioData)!
Connecting stewards & professionals across Portugal to boost collaboration & FAIR data practices.
Join us! 👉https://forms.office.com/e/4jvejLceRa
🎓 JBI2025 Students' Symposium — Call for Abstracts!
🗓️ Oct 22 | Madrid
Organised by ISCB RSG-Spain & NEBiUM Portugal, this is a great chance for MSc, PhD & early-career researchers to present their work!
📝 Submit by July 14: https://jbi2025.cnb.csic.es/students-symposium/
📢 Registration is open for the Ready for BioData Management: Intensive Course at CIIMAR (July 3–4)!
Hands-on training on the full data lifecycle using Galaxy, DMPortal & DSW, powered by BioData.pt & GLIM-BioData.
🔗 https://events.biodata.pt/event/9/
