Call topic: Specialised phenotyping / metabolic and behavioral pipelines

Main objective of this INFRAFRONTIER2020 Trans-national Access call is to facilitate access for the wider biomedical research community to the unique infrastructure and scientific expertise of the participating INFRAFRONTIER mouse clinics, where mouse mutant lines can be tested through specialised metabolic- and behavioural phenotyping pipelines. Disturbed energy balance regulation results in obesity and in numerous related metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. We offer specialised phenotyping pipelines comprising state-of-the-art test assays monitoring disease related parameters. In-depth behavioural phenotyping supports the elucidation of the molecular and genetic basis of behavioural impairments that are relevant for human neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia, autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease.

More information and the call application form is available here.
Proposal submission to proposals(at)infrafrontier.eu by 15 November 2018.

ERINHA is recruiting its full time Director General, place of work will be Paris.
Deadline for applications is October 19, 2018 (17:00 CET).

For more information see the vacancy note.

A paper on reproducible genomics analysis pipelines (PiGx) for the analysis of RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Bisulfite-seq, and single-cell RNA-seq was recently published by the group of Altuna Akalin from the Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine. Their work was partly supported by CORBEL. Congratulations to the authors!

On 1 September 2018, the current submission round of the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects started. Industrial and academic scientists are invited to submit their proposals to access technologies and services offered by the European biomedical research infrastructures.

Please be aware that all interested researchers are required to talk about potential applications with the contact person(s) at the prospective service providers before submitting their project proposal.

The current submission round will close on 31 October, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages and find separate information on applications from industry.

The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk team in conjunction with the EATRIS Slovenia National Node and the University of Ljubljana is organizing a best practice workshop on the theme of public-private collaboration on 12-13 December 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Registration is open - please find more information in the Event announcements.

One of the objectives of the CORBEL Innovation work package is to provide guidelines or templates for legal agreements applying to research collaborations and material or data transfer situations. Although such agreements require tailor-made approaches, content wise there are common segments to be captured which are provided in templates and guidelines (“tools”). Recently the CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk website has been updated with two documents which provide help:

• Collaboration Agreement Template Tool with Commentary
• A Tool to Design a Core Material Transfer Agreement

If you have questions or require further help please contact the Innovation Helpdesk.

From ELSI to Knowledge Base - the latest paper published by CORBEL WP7 leader Michaela Th. Mayrhofer (BBMRI-ERIC) and Irene Schlünder from TMF e.V. provides an overview of the activities and results toward a comprehensive ELSI support for the biomedical research infrastructures. The work was co-funded by the Horizon 2020 projects ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC and CORBEL. The full text of the paper is available here.

The following calls for biological/medical research projects are announced/open:

• Joint call by Instruct-ERIC and EuroBioNMR: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for life science
  --> Applications can be submitted for access to magnetic resonance platforms in Europe
  --> The next deadline for proposal submission is 15 October 2018
  --> More information can be found here

• INFRAFRONTIER2020: Call on the topic of "Specialised phenotyping / metabolic and behavioral pipelines"
  --> The main objective of the call is to facilitate access for the wider biomedical research
        community to the unique infrastructure and scientific expertise of the participating
        INFRAFRONTIER mouse clinics, where mouse mutant lines can be tested through specialised
        metabolic- and behavioural phenotyping pipelines
  --> Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 November 2018
  --> More information can be found here

• BiodivERsA: Call on the topic of "BIODIVERSITY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ANIMAL, HUMAN AND PLANT HEALTH"
  --> The call aims at supporting transnational research projects jointly addressing issues at the
        nexus of biodiversity and animal, human and/ or plant health
  --> Deadline for submission of pre-proposals (mandatory): 16 November 2018, 16:00 CET
  --> More information can be found here
  
  

• European Plant Phenotyping Network (EPPN): 3rd call for transnational access
  --> Deadline: 28th of January 2019 at 17:00 (German time)
  --> More information can be found here

Registration for the 5th CORBEL Medical Infrastructure/Users Forum (MIUF) meeting (15 October 2018, Paris) is now open. Please find more information in the Event announcements.

In the course of a recent grant agreement amendment, the European Commission approved the cost neutral extension of CORBEL until the end of May 2020. The consortium is very grateful for the chance to extend and expand its efforts to support European biological and medical research by harmonising user access to biomedical research infrastructures, unifying data management, creating common ethical and legal services, and offering joint innovation support!

During the second submission round of the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects, several applications were received and are now being evaluated.

Due to the rolling deadline of the Open Call, researchers are now encouraged to submit their proposals during the third submission round.

Please be aware that all interested researchers are required to talk about potential applications with the contact person(s) at the prospective service providers before submitting their project proposal.

The third submission round will close on 31 August, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

The first submission round of the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects closed on April 30, 2018. The evaluation process has started and applicants will be notified about the outcome of the evaluation soon.

As the Open Call has a rolling deadline collecting applications at the 1st of every 2nd month, researchers are now encouraged to submit their proposals during the second submission round.

Please be aware that all interested researchers are required to talk about potential applications with the contact person(s) at the prospective service providers before submitting their project proposal.

The second submission round will close on 30 June, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

On 26 March CORBEL launched its 2nd Open Call for research projects.

This call offers all academic and industrial scientists in Europe the unique chance to accelerate their research by using state-of-the-art technologies and services from more than 20 facilities from 10 different research infrastructures.

The first submission round will close on 30 April, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center Munich (HMGU) have identified a network of genes that could play a vital role in the development of metabolic diseases such as diabetes. The study for which INFRAFRONTIER provided the research infrastructure marks a substantial progress in the fight against diabetes: In order to identify candidate genes for the wide spread metabolic disease, the research team of the German Mouse Clinic (GMC) examined `knockout mice´ – each lacking a specific gene – for metabolic dysfunction.

As a follow-up to the consensus paper published end of 2017, ECRIN-ERIC released their publication on Classification of processes involved in sharing individual participant data from clinical trials.
It is accessible from here.

CORBEL WP3, lead by ECRIN-ERIC, published a consensus paper on data sharing of data from clinical trials.

The report "IP issues in Open Science, pre-competitive Research and Open Innovation", produced by the CORBEL innovation specialists (CORBEL WP8), is now online available.

The CORBEL Catalogue of Services offers an overview on what kind of services (access to samples and technologies, data, tools, expertise etc.) can be accessed from the participating research infrastructures. Researchers from academia, clinics and industry working on a complex project often do not have access at their home institution to the cutting-edge technologies they would need to boost their research – especially these researchers can benefit from utilising a research infrastructure.