Dear Reader, With our sixth NFDI4Microbiota newsletter, we wo­uld like to share news about conferences, tra­ining courses, ELN (Electronic Lab Notebooks), grants and new cooperations. And as this is the first newsletter of the year, there will also be a short review of 2023. If you can think of other topics that we should cover, please let us know. We are happy to hear from you!<https://nfdi4microbiota.de/contact-form/> And now: Enjoy reading the newsletter! In case you have problems with reading the pdf, tomorrow you will be able to read it on our homepage: https://nfdi4microbiota.de/latest/newsletter Don't forgot our community workshop starting soon: NFDI4Microbiota Community Workshop (February 5th, 10-12:00 CEST, online) There are new NFDI4Microbiota<https://nfdi4microbiota.de/> services online! We will introduce them in our online community workshop on February 5, 2024, 10-12 CEST. We will talk about the NFDI4Microbiota Knowledge Base<https://knowledgebase.nfdi4microbiota.de/> which provides information about research data management, software development and much more. You will get insights how to use the ARUNA<https://aruna-storage.org/)> Object storage to store your (meta-)data according to FAIR<https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618> principles. A live demo of StrainInfo<https://straininfo.dsmz.de/> will introduce you to our service that is providing microbial strain identifiers. Finally, the new virus database VirJen<https://virjendb.uni-jena.de/> will be presented. Join us and log in via Zoom: https://th-koeln.zoom-x.de/j/68754647684?pwd=dXN2R0R6OGNpQ2V3VUEzUE5ZbVds... Meeting ID 687 5464 7684 Passcode: 363736 Best wishes, Mattea, Barbara and Cordula Dr. Cordula Hege Project Manager Computational Biology for Infection Research Head of Department: Prof. Alice McHardy Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH Inhoffenstrasse 7 38124 Braunschweig Germany ________________________________ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH | Inhoffenstraße 7 | 38124 Braunschweig | www.helmholtz-hzi.de Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Frau MinDir'in Prof. Dr. Veronika von Messling, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung Stellvertreter: MinDirig Rüdiger Eichel, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur Wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Josef Penninger - Administrativer Geschäftsführer: Christian Scherf Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH) Sitz der Gesellschaft: Braunschweig Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Braunschweig, HRB 477 Unsere Hinweise zum Datenschutz finden Sie hier: https://www.helmholtz-hzi.de/de/service/datenschutz/