Dr

Wendi Bacon

  • 16 September 2026
    | Articles

    Connecting health data across Europe: A report from two health data workshops at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2026

    Two ELIXIR All Hands 2026 workshops covering 19 Nodes and two Observer countries. The main barriers to health data progress are not technical. Six areas for collaboration and four recommendations, including a coordinated ELIXIR response to the European Health Data Space.
  • 24 February 2026
    | News

    Turning up the signal for the UK Human and Health Data Communities

    HDR UK joins ELIXIR-UK to amplify voices and exchange knowledge across the UK human data research infrastructure and health data landscapes.
  • 11 February 2026
    | News

    Measuring progress on gender balance in ELIXIR leadership

    A new case study from ELIXIR’s leadership and diversity mentoring programme, ELEAD, shows early evidence that the initiative is supporting women’s progression into leadership roles and contributing to culture change […]
  • 3 February 2026
    | Articles

    Checking the paperwork: identifying trusted people for sensitive data access

    The Safe People Registry is an open-source tool developed by HDR UK to support consistent assessment to access sensitive data. ELIXIR-UK highlights its relevance through community discussion and open development.
  • 14 August 2025
    | News

    ELIXIR-UK at ISMB/ECCB 2025: Sharing services, building partnerships, and growing UK impact

    ELIXIR-UK was highly visible at ISMB/ECCB 2025, with over 25 talks and posters, a UK booth trail, and co-leadership of the "Bioinformatics in the UK" track.
  • 17 June 2025
    | News

    Working together across ELIXIR: UK Node at the 2025 All Hands

    The ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2025, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-6 June, brought together members from across Europe to exchange ideas, coordinate infrastructure development, and shape the shared future of […]
  • 10 March 2025
    | Blog

    Bioinformatics Projects Learning Pathway for Students

    By Wendi Bacon With a huge thanks to ELIXIR-UK’s DaSH Fellowship funding, we are delighted to present our new Learning Pathway, “Bioinformatics Projects: Using deconvolution to get new insights from old […]
  • 8 March 2025
    | Blog

    Celebrating International Women’s Day

    As we mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, we are proud to highlight the crucial role women play in leadership within our ELIXIR-UK Node. With Prof Carole Goble as […]
  • 19 February 2025
    | News

    Innovation in action: Behind the scenes at the first HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon

    The first HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon brought together technical professionals at the intersection of health data and life sciences for three days of collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving – […]
  • 12 November 2024
    | News

    Supporting UK-led projects at BioHackathon Europe 2024

    ELIXIR-UK supported 22 participants from 11 organisations at BioHackathon Europe 2024, held in November near Barcelona, where 300 participants from the life sciences research community gathered to tackle critical challenges […]
  • 3 September 2024
    | News

    Championing diversity and collaboration at the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference

    In June 2024, members of the ELIXIR-UK community, including key contributors like Wendi Bacon and Nicola Soranzo, participated in the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2024), the flagship annual event about […]
  • 2 July 2024
    | News

    UK Node’s collaborative presence at 2024 ELIXIR All Hands

    Members of ELIXIR-UK attended in force the 2024 ELIXIR Europe All Hands meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, during the week of June 13th, 2024, to discuss collaborative solutions to life sciences […]
  • ELIXIR-UKFellowship
    Data Stewardship Training Fellowship
  • ClubELIXIR-UK
    UK Human Data and Tech Club
  • 24 June 2026
    | Community Call

    AHM Lyon debrief: health data takes the stage

    Members of the ELIXIR-UK Human Data & Tech Club are leading two workshops at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Lyon this June – on health data standards and pan-European community collaboration. Join our community call to hear what happened.
  • 18 February 2026
    | Community Call

    Showcase & feedback session: HDR Gateway, Safe People Registry & Cohort Discovery

    Join the February Human Data community call for a live, interactive showcase of three key technologies developed by HDR UK that support access, discovery and trust in the landscape of […]
  • 23 October 2025
    | Conference

    ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2025

  • 24 March 2025
    | Community Call, Workshop

    Designing effective surveys for training evaluation

    This interactive workshop will focus on improving survey design for evaluating training courses. Participants will collaborate to create a shared template for high-quality, effective surveys. Workshop goals Preparation Before the […]
  • 19 November 2024
    | Conference

    ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2024

    We are excited to welcome you to the ELIXIR-UK 2024 Annual All Hands Meeting, bringing together representatives from our 28 member institutions.
  • 18 June 2024
    | Short course

    FAIR data management in single-cell analysis

    What will you learn? This course will introduce the Galaxy Platform, covering the basic functionality for single-cell data processing. It will include an overview of various common single-cell datatypes used […]